Good Deaths in Wendell Berry's Short Stories

This article looks at how Wendell Berry's short stories depicting good deaths offer a crucial exploration of the incarnate bonds of human affection. They do so, I argue, by pointing us to the vulnerable ordinariness of embodied love. I first describe these good deaths as "ordinary" be...

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Main Author: Enscoe, Gerald Eugene (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2021
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 151-177
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBQ North America
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B Affection
B Wendell Berry
B Poison
B death and dying
B The Ordinary
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