Alan Jacobs
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Alan Jacobs is hoogleraar letterkunde. Hij publiceerde tal van artikelen voor onder andere The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal en Harper’s Magazine, en is auteur van verschillende boeken, waaronder een biografie van C.S. Lewis en 'The Pleasure of Reading in an Age of Distraction'.
Alan Jacobs is hoogleraar letterkunde. Hij publiceerde tal van artikelen voor onder andere The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal en Harper’s Magazine, en is auteur van verschillende boeken, waaronder een biografie van C.S. Lewis en 'The Pleasure of Reading in an Age of Distraction'.
Alan (Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Jacobs
Boeken van Alan Jacobs
Alan (Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Jacobs
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs offers a witty, literate, and accessible guide for aspiring readers, offering tips on what to read and how to get the most out of it. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction or poetry or even the Bible, from reading responsively, to rereading, to reading on electronic devices.
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Alan Jacobs
A Theology Of Reading
Through theological reflection interspersed with readings of literary texts, this book provides an elusive quarry—the charitable reader. It is a meaty meditation on absolutely central issues in serious reading, and its specific examples give a sufficient guide and impetus to a willing reader.
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Alan Jacobs
The Year of Our Lord 1943
The Year of Our Lord 1943 tells the story of how five Christian intellectuals - Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil - sought to provide a plan for the moral and spiritual renewal of the Western democracies in the post-World War II world.
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Paradise Lost – A Biography
The life and times of Milton’s epic poem about Satan’s revolt against God and humanity’s expulsion from paradiseJohn Milton’s Paradise Lost has secured its place in the pantheon of epic poems, but unlike almost all other works in the pantheon, it is intimately associated with religious doctrine and its implications for how we live our lives.
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