Student Essay: Tolkien and Allegory By Nathan Boone Tolkien’s cosmos remains popular because it captures many differing kinds of imagination. From the Odyssey, to Beowulf, to Harry Potter, […]
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ShelleyAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Practically every sci-fi, horror, and futuristic story owes something to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. ❧ Full name and titles: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née
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MaimonidesAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown Maimonides shaped all subsequent schools of Judaism, and even the development of Medieval Christianity. ❧ Full name and titles: Moshe ben Maimon,
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IbsenAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Ibsen is among the most influential—and controversial—of modern dramatists. ❧ Full name and titles: Henrik Johan Ibsen [hĕn-rĭk yō-hän ĭb-sĕn; see our pronunciation
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PlutarchAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown History is a standard subject in every curriculum. But why do we study it? ❧ Full name and titles: Lucius Mestrius Plutarch
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We are taught Lord Acton’s proverb throughout our lives, but Orwell’s novella “Animal Farm,” surprisingly enough, tells a quite different tale about power.
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Marx is, to put it mildly, a controversial figure. But nineteenth and twentieth century history cannot be understood without studying his ideas.
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“Jane Eyre” is a classic novel of the Romantic movement, but its moral backbone is what makes its protagonist and her story compelling.
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Mahatma Gandhi is the father of nonviolent resistance movements throughout the twentieth century, from India to the US to South Africa to the USSR.
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“Beowulf” combines a Christianized worldview with the melancholy themes of the Norse Ragnarok, and in so doing achieves a solitary poetic quality.
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