The NibelungenliedA Book Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Romance; treachery; vengeance; many unpronounceable names: here we have the ingredients of high epic. ❧ Full title: Der Nibelungenlied (“The Song […]
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WoolfAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard In her narrative techniques and personal ideals, Woolf was emblematic of all of twentieth-century literature. ❧ Full name: Adeline Virginia Woolf, née
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Von GoetheAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Goethe inaugurated a fundamental change in the passions that inspire literature in general. ❧ Full name: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, né
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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: 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 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 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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TerenceAn Author Profile By Gabrie Blanchard The frivolity of Terence’s plays conceals a great depth of human feeling. ❧ Full name: Publius Terentius Afer [püb-lē-ŭs tê-rĕn-tē-ŭs ä-fêŕ; see
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Student Essay: Hector and Heroism By Eamonn Flynn Achilles is the protagonist of the Iliad, but most readers see Hector as its moral “hero.” Yet is the conventional
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The Great Conversation: Scripture—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard The nature and history of the idea of Scripture is, and remains, about as tangled as an idea can get.
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