The Resource Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life, Kathleen Norris
Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life, Kathleen Norris
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The item Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life, Kathleen Norris represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
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- Summary
- Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 334 pages
- Contents
-
- Somewhere
- Tedium
- From eight bad thoughts to seven sins
- Psyche, soul, and muse
- Up and down
- Give me a word
- Acedia's progress
- Acedia's decline
- A silent despair
- The quotidian mysteries
- The "noon" of midlife
- Day by day
- And to the end arriving
- A widow's uneasy afterword
- Acedia: a commonplace book
- Isbn
- 9781594489969
- Label
- Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life
- Title
- Acedia & me
- Title remainder
- a marriage, monks, and a writer's life
- Statement of responsibility
- Kathleen Norris
- Title variation
- Acedia and me
- Title variation remainder
- a marriage, monks, and a writers life
- Subject
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- trueUnhappiness -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- trueSoul (Christianity)
- trueUnhappiness
- Acedia
- trueApathy
- Apathy -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- trueChristianity
- trueDepression
- trueDepression -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- trueEmotion
- trueEmotion -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- trueJoy and sorrow
- trueMelancholy
- Melancholy -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Monastic and religious life
- trueMonasticism and religious orders
- Norris, Kathleen, 1947-
- Sadness -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 271801
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1947-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Norris, Kathleen
- Dewey number
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- 818/.5403
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- BT732.4
- LC item number
- .N67 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- 818.5403 N856a
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Norris, Kathleen
- Acedia
- Melancholy
- Sadness
- Apathy
- Monastic and religious life
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a marriage, monks, and a writer's life
- Label
- Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life, Kathleen Norris
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-334)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Somewhere -- Tedium -- From eight bad thoughts to seven sins -- Psyche, soul, and muse -- Up and down -- Give me a word -- Acedia's progress -- Acedia's decline -- A silent despair -- The quotidian mysteries -- The "noon" of midlife -- Day by day -- And to the end arriving -- A widow's uneasy afterword -- Acedia: a commonplace book
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 334 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594489969
- Lccn
- 2008010150
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- 212847707
- (OCoLC)212847707
- Label
- Acedia & me : a marriage, monks, and a writer's life, Kathleen Norris
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-334)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Somewhere -- Tedium -- From eight bad thoughts to seven sins -- Psyche, soul, and muse -- Up and down -- Give me a word -- Acedia's progress -- Acedia's decline -- A silent despair -- The quotidian mysteries -- The "noon" of midlife -- Day by day -- And to the end arriving -- A widow's uneasy afterword -- Acedia: a commonplace book
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 334 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594489969
- Lccn
- 2008010150
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- 212847707
- (OCoLC)212847707
Subject
- trueUnhappiness -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- trueSoul (Christianity)
- trueUnhappiness
- Acedia
- trueApathy
- Apathy -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- trueChristianity
- trueDepression
- trueDepression -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- trueEmotion
- trueEmotion -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- trueJoy and sorrow
- trueMelancholy
- Melancholy -- Religious aspects | Christianity
- Monastic and religious life
- trueMonasticism and religious orders
- Norris, Kathleen, 1947-
- Sadness -- Religious aspects | Christianity
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