Acedia & me
Subtitle: a marriage, monks, and a writer's life
By: Kathleen Norris.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781594489969
Subjects: Norris, Kathleen, -- 1947-; Acedia; Melancholy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Sadness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Apathy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Monastic and religious life
Other titles: Acedia and me
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ).
Table of contents: title: Somewhere; title: Tedium; title: From eight bad thoughts to seven sins; title: Psyche, soul, and muse; title: Up and down; title: Give me a word; title: Acedia's progress; title: Acedia's decline; title: A silent despair; title: The quotidian mysteries; title: The "noon" of midlife; title: Day by day; title: And to the end arriving; title: A widow's uneasy afterword; title: Acedia: a commonplace book.