Christianity and Literature articles from June 2005

Christianity and Literature archives from June 2005

The sins of children in The Brothers Karamazov: serfdom, hierarchy, and transcendence.
June 22, 2005... Near the end of Crime and Punishment, in one of the most harrowing passages in all of Dostoevsky's works, Svidrigailov is plagued by a series of nightmares. The last of his dreams is the most horrifying of all: Svidrigailov dreams that he helps...

Meeting.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Meeting The first day, I am late. Metal on wood the latch falls into that silent place. I can't sit still the endless hour on the hard gray bench, can't meditate, just keep wondering am I home or is...

The religious epigram in early Stuart England.
June 22, 2005... The epigram, widely practiced in the early seventeenth century, has received remarkably little attention from scholars, and the religious epigram, as a distinct application of the form, has attracted almost none. Only Richard Crashaw's attempts...

The religious poetry of Ruth Pitter (1).
June 22, 2005... It is an unfortunate fact that Ruth Pitter (1897-1992)--an important twentieth-century British poet who won the Hawthornden Prize in 1937 for A Trophy of Arms (1936), the William E. Heinemann Award for The Ermine (1953), and the Queen's Gold...

A life in psychiatry and literature: an interview with Robert Coles.(Interview)
June 22, 2005... The following remarks were given by John Cox at the Conference on Christianity and Literature Luncheon at the 2004 Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia. On that occasion, CCL awarded Robert Coles its Lifetime Achievement...

Eve to god.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Eve to God I never tugged your garments for the fruit (The question--Did they swallow what they ate?--Aside), looking on it merely as the loot With which you hoped to hide or compensate A full-grown woman for so...

Waldron's Locke: a breakthrough.(God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke's Political Thought)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations in Locke's Political Thought. By Jeremy Waldron. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0521810019 (hardcover); 0521890578 (paper). Pp. xii + 263. $65.00 (hardcover); $22.00 (paper)....

Following the many roads of recent Tolkien Scholarship.(The Road to Middle-earth)(Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth)(Following Gandalfi Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings)(A Hidden Presence: The Catholic Imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien)(Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship)(The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in The Lord of the Rings)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Road to Middle-earth. By Tom Shippey, rev. and expanded ed. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. ISBN 0-618-25760-8. Pp. xviii + 398. $13.00. Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. By John Garth. Boston and...

Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature. By Hannibal Hamlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-521-83270-5 (cloth). Pp. xi + 289. $90.00. Although metrical psalmody might command a minor place in English...

The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton's Rejection of God as King.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton's Rejection of God as King. By Michael Bryson. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004. ISBN 0-87413-859-0. Pp. 208. $43.50 In this work, Michael Bryson argues that Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained are...

Four Cultures of the West.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Four Cultures of the West. By John W. O'Malley. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01498-7. Pp. 261. $24.95. O'Malley's broad-stroke, big-picture survey of these four cultures is written with the...

The American Classics: A Personal Essay.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The American Classics: A Personal Essay. By Denis Donoghue. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-300-10871-1. Pp. 295. $27.00. Lovers of American literature will find much food for thought in this highly distinguished critic's...

Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination. By Ross Labrie. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8262-1382-0. Pp. ix + 263. $34.95. Like the scope of the writer's mind on which it focuses, this study is...

In the Dark before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... In the Dark before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton. Edited by Lynn R. Szabo. Preface by Kathleen Norris. New York: New Directions Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0-8112-1613-6. Pp. xxxiv + 253. $16.95 [paper]. In comparison with the...

The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone. By Elizabeth Leake. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8020-8767-1. Pp. viii + 200. $53.00. To have integrity is to be undivided. It is to be, in reality, what one seems to be; not...

Understanding Adrienne Kennedy.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Understanding Adrienne Kennedy. By Philip C. Kolin. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. ISBN 1-57003-579-2. Pp. xii + 222. $34.95. The nightmarish theater of a major playwright is the subject of Philip C. Kolin's...

On the Return, to Mr. Boswell, of a Dinner Napkin: which fluttered down from his apartment to mine.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... On the Return, to Mr. Boswell, of a Dinner Napkin which fluttered down from his apartment to mine 'Twixt this square of cloth and me There's a subtle sympathy, Bore it, like a homing dove, From your balcony above ...

Tree Art.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Tree Art Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible. Paul Klee The slender tipplers, stripped of all their green glory, humble in their winterness, sucking from the neck of this West...