Lessons From Purgatory
Lessons From Purgatory By Autumn Kennedy In its own capacity, Dante’s Purgatorio resembles Virgil, shepherding its readers up the sacred mountain in this life as he shepherded its […]
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Malory: An Author Profile
MaloryAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard No one codified the legend of King Arthur and its meaning for English culture as powerfully as Thomas Malory. The historical basis
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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
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The Nibelungenlied: A Book Profile
The NibelungenliedA Book Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Romance; treachery; vengeance; many unpronounceable names: here we have the ingredients of high epic. The Nibelungenlied, or Song of the Nibelungs,
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Woolf: An Author Profile
WoolfAn Author Profile 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 even
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Von Goethe: An Author Profile
Von GoetheAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Goethe inaugurated a fundamental change in the passions that inspire literature in general. Romanticism is an idea we tend to take
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The Great Conversation: Relation
The Great Conversation: Relation By Gabriel Blanchard This concept has risen steadily in the Great Conversation, from a lesser footnote to a chief aspect of both physics and
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The Great Conversation: Authority—Part V
The Great Conversation: Authortity—Part V By Gabriel Blanchard The authority of the scholar contains certain ironies that may not show at a glance … This post is Part
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The Great Conversation: Technology—Part I
The Great Conversation:Technology—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard We live in a technological age; we have a vague sense that that means our world is in some sense different
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Virtue at the Testing Point
Virtue at the Testing Point By Travis Copeland Literature offers us tools to rise beyond a merely imaginary idea of courage. Classical education centers around moral instruction, particularly
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