Héloïse d’Argenteuil
Héloïse d’Argenteuil An Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard We do not typically think of wife and nun as words that can apply to the same woman at the …
The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part III
The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part III By Gabriel Blanchard Having considered the surprisingly ascetic philosophy of Epicurus, and the broader implications of the existence of pain, what …
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Cooper: “Mens Immota Manet”
Cooper: Mens Immota Manet By Gabriel Blanchard Virgil wrote the line mens immota manet lacrimæ volvuntur inanes* about Æneas; but if he had been thinking of Cooper, he …
The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part II
The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard Having discussed Epicurus, whose “hedonism” was not hedonistic, let us turn to the problem of suffering, which does …
Malory: Peril, Piety, and Perdition
Malory: Peril, Piety, and Perdition By Gabriel Blanchard No one codified the legend of King Arthur and its meaning for English culture as powerfully as Thomas Malory. The …
The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain
The Great Conversation: Pleasure & Pain—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard Superficially simple, pain and pleasure are strangely intricate realities, and have ties to almost every other area of …
The Legacy of the Nibelungenlied
The Legacy of the Nibelungenlied By Gabriel Blanchard What legacy is there to utter destruction? As it turns out, if it has a poet on its side, quite …
The Nibelungenlied: A Romance of Disaster and Death
The Nibelungenlied: A Romance of Disaster and Death By Gabriel Blanchard Romance; treachery; vengeance; many unpronounceable names: here we have the ingredients of high epic. The Nibelungenlied, or …
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The Great Conversation: Education—Part II
The Great Conversation: Education—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard We have discussed what education is for; what does it consist in? Go here for Part I. In our previous …
Woolf: Upon the Waters
Woolf: Upon the Waters By Gabriel Blanchard In her narrative techniques and personal ideals, Woolf was emblematic of all of twentieth-century literature. It has been pointed out (sometimes …