Contents

          Preface

SECTION ONE —
TILL WE HAVE FACES:  THE WORK ITSELF

I           Introduction: The Background                                                                           2

II          Part I, Chapters 1-2: Methods, Motives, Materialism                                        9

III        Chapters 3-5: Of Divine Mysteries and Sacrifice                                              19

IV        Chapters 6-7: Love and Longing                                                                      27

V         Chapters 8-11: Believing and Perceiving                                                           35

VI        Chapters 12-15: Seeing and Knowing                                                              47

VII       Chapters 16-20: Loving, Hating, Hiding                                                           53

VIII      Chapter 21: The Myth and the Retelling                                                           61

IX        Part II, Chapters 1-4: “Real Life is Meeting”                                                    69

 

SECTION TWO —
TILL WE HAVE FACES:  THE WORK IN CONTEXT

X         Poet of the Teens and Twenties: The Struggling Imagination                                88

XI        Critic and Story-Writer of the Thirties: Imagination as Servant                          108

XII       Apologist of the Forties: Reason as Master                                                      128

XIII      Autobiographer of the Fifties: Reason and Imagination Reconciled                   148

XIV     Personal Writer of the Sixties: Reason and Imagination United                         163

 

            Notes                                                                                                            183

            Table for Converting Page References to Chapter Numbers                      203