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Book SynopsisThe metaphor of the Church as a 'body' has shaped Catholic thinking since the Second Vatican Council. This book studies a cohort of Catholic authors whose art takes seriously the themes of the Council: from novelists such as Mary Gordon, Ron Hansen, Louise Erdrich, and J F Powers to poets such as Annie Dillard, Mary Karr and Lucia Perillo.
Trade Review"This groundbreaking book considers Catholic writers who have embraced the spirit of Vatian II and taken seriously the incarnational and sacramental identity of the body." -Choice "An insightful approach to contemporary Catholic literature." -- -Dennis Castillo Christ the King Seminary "Explores the writing of Catholic authors whose work was influenced by the Second Vatican Council." -Publishers Weekly "Studying a wide variety of genres from a wide variety of writers, Waldmeir presents a thoughtful description that helps uncover an increasingly complex, yet unified mosaic of literary writing of the 'body'." -Catholic Library World "Crucially, productively, and faithfully informed by attention to the work of the Catholic imagination." -- -Richard A. Rosengarten The University of Chicago Divinity School "John Waldmeir, Director of the Kucera Centre for Catholic Studies at Loras College, Dubuque, has done all those interested in Catholic literature a service by tracing the connection between the Vatican II conception of the Church as a "body" and the work of some contemporary American writers." -The Irish Catholic "One of the first Catholic literary critics to focus on the role of the body in contemporary Catholic literature." -- -Susan Hill University of Northern Iowa
