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UNINA9910459094703321 |
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Waters John <1955-> |
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Beyond consolation / / John Waters |
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London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Continuum, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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1-4411-2994-4 |
1-282-87408-X |
9786612874086 |
1-4411-3540-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Christianity - Ireland |
Faith |
Electronic books. |
Ireland Religion |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 1 Give Me Back Yesterday; 2 Where Every Tear Will Be Wiped Away; 3 Winking at the Milky Way; 4 The Silent Melody; 5 Human Beings or Human Beans?; 6 The Sabotage of Hope; 7 The Dominion of What Is; 8 The Keyhole of Reason; 9 The Poetics of Nothing; 10 The Anatomy of De-absolutisation; 11 The Gulag of Unhope; 12 Only Wonder Knows; 13 The Tapestry of Hope; 14 We Shall Have Stars at Elbow and Foot; 15 Courtesy towards Christ; 16 A Language to Hope In |
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In the late spring of 2008 the acclaimed Irish writer Nuala O' Faolain went on a national Irish radio programme to tell the Irish people that she was dying of cancer. She was frightened of death and of the short time left to her. . Here was a spokesperson for a generation which now conjured up an abyss for itself, reviewing a culture she had inhabited and helped to create one last time. She believed neither in an afterlife nor in God. With Nuala O' Faolain's broadcast as his point of departure, Waters examines this trajectory of Irish Culture to this point of despair. How reasonable is it t |
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