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G.K. Chesterton

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Novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, historian, journalist, Christian apologist, literary and social critic, G.K.

Chesterton was one of the most protean and prolific writers of his age, perhaps of any age.

Bernard Shaw called him a 'colossal genius'. Most readers have certainly found him too big to see whole, and have therefore cut him in half.

The 'poet' is severed from the philosopher; he is treated either as a phrase-maker or as a mystic; his quirky writings are enjoyed as an aesthetic end in themselves, or they are praised for their contribution to theology.

In this close reading of his work, Michael D. Hurley brings Chesterton's divided selves together. Covering the full range of his diverse genres, Hurley shows how Chesterton thinks through language, in ways that confound attempts to read him as a thinker without first appreciating him as a writer.

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Liverpool University Press
0746312105 / 9780746312100
Hardback
823.912
20/02/2012
United Kingdom
144 pages
138 x 216 mm
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