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Title: Thomas Merton Goes to Class: Pedagogy on the Borders of the Short Story
Language: English
Authors: Callaghan, Michael J.
Source: CEA Forum. Win-Spr 2011 40(1):89-98.
Availability: College English Association. Web site: http://www.cea-web.org
Peer Reviewed: Y
Physical Description: PDF
Page Count: 10
Publication Date: 2011
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Descriptors: Poets, Literary Genres, Higher Education, Instruction, Writing (Composition), Authors, Writing Instruction
ISSN: 0007-8034
Abstract: Our thesis is more finely tuned to Thomas Merton (1915-68) the writer, more specifically, the poet/artist/writer and thinker. These are the components of the "Merton" voice. Merton senses the quality of innocence as the "sine qua non" of the poet or writer's vocation: "His art depends on an ingrained innocence which he would lose in business, in politics, or in too organized a form of academic life" ("Raids" 156). Simply put: Merton would lose his voice in some work; he would find a way to use his prophetic voice in others. Clearly then, knowing well the ways of the world, its newness and its sins as they touched him personally, Merton claims the monastery as his megaphone, as providing and sustaining that innocence he so explicitly requires as necessary for clear thinking and good writing, clear communication. However, "Conjectures" marks a turn, a change in Merton's voice in this neatly thought-through process. (Contains 1 note.)
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Number of References: 5
Entry Date: 2012
Accession Number: EJ985754
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