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A Heroic Song of Heroic Songs of Heroes

J.C. Scharl August 18, 2022

Rarely, if ever, does Christopher Ricks raise a point without matching it with some apt snippet of verse. Or, rather, rarely does Ricks raise a point at all; instead he discovers, within the verses of poets, the point he himself would like to raise and consider, so that reading a Ricks essay can become a game of hide-and-seek as the critic dodges and peeks from between the curtains of carefully selected verse.

Sonnet Form Nixed from Exams: “Product of White Western Culture”

David Boos June 9, 2022

University of Salford has removed sonnets from its creative writing program exams in a bid to “decolonise the curriculum,” since they “tend to be products of white western culture.”

Revealing the Dark Angel

Charles A. Coulombe May 21, 2022

What Lionel Johnson awaited was a biographer who shared both his deep Faith and his soaring erudition in order to convey his work both in its true significance to its author, and on its own terms. With Robert Asch, Johnson has at last found him.

Heaven Bleeds Backwards into our Lives

J.C. Scharl May 2, 2022

The novel illustrates St. Catherine of Siena’s famous quote, “The path to Heaven is Heaven.” St. Catherine did not say whether the path felt like Heaven at the time, but she was certain that it was, in all essentials, Heaven. In other words, Heaven bleeds backwards into our lives, until every moment is colored with its otherworldly hues. That is the feat Vodolazkin accomplishes in this novel.

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
The Disneyfication of Culture

Felix James Miller April 30, 2022

Judging by the 1942 film, the story of Bambi is a relatively simple and childish tale. True, it famously deals with Bambi’s loss of his mother, but in general the movie leaves viewers with the banal, sentimental, fuzzy feelings that has made Disney an entertainment juggernaut. But these are not the feelings Salten’s original novel produces, nor is the novel particularly intended for children. How, then, did Disney’s image of Bambi become the predominant one? And how does this story and its reception shed light on our current Western culture?

The Whole World an Audience: Or Performance Against Personhood

Carlos Perona Calvete April 30, 2022

The idea of motherlessness in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Huxley’s Brave New World may help us understand our own age, in which state encroachment and market forces work together for the abolition of motherhood.

Conservative Children’s Book Tops Amazon Charts

James M. Sequeira April 29, 2022

While Amazon has yet to cease selling the children’s book, it did hold a group session for employees to deal with the “trauma” of the book’s success.

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
Localism, Nationalism, and Chesterton’s First Novel

Felix James Miller February 26, 2022

How do localism and nationalism fit together? How do each of these philosophical approaches to place use and abuse the innate noble feeling of patriotism? Over the course of Chesterton’s story, we are challenged to confront these questions and answer how we ought to live.

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
Virtue in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

Felix James Miller January 31, 2022

The novel is compelling (even spellbinding at times)—and if it is called antiquated, it is only because we have forgotten that the oldest human battle is the worthiest one: the battle to achieve and maintain virtue in a fallen world.

The Battle of the Good and the Beautiful

Hélène de Lauzun January 29, 2022

We must know how to trust great literature, which invites the deployment of intense and demanding feelings. The elevation of the soul of the youth suffers in the absence of great literary works; they remain constricted in an elementary vision of the world, of feelings, of relationships between people.

Tag: literature

A Heroic Song of Heroic Songs of Heroes

Sonnet Form Nixed from Exams: “Product of White Western Culture”

Revealing the Dark Angel

Heaven Bleeds Backwards into our Lives

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
The Disneyfication of Culture

The Whole World an Audience: Or Performance Against Personhood

Conservative Children’s Book Tops Amazon Charts

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
Localism, Nationalism, and Chesterton’s First Novel

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS:
Virtue in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

The Battle of the Good and the Beautiful

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