The Gritty Realism of Thomas Hardy
It is a commonly held opinion that Thomas Hardy, the prolific Victorian poet and novelist, is a pessimist. This perspective is documented well in a…
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Reviews: Authors’ Minds & Metallica
Patrick Colm Hogan, How Authors’ Minds Make Stories. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xxi + 227 pp., £55.00/$90.00, cloth. In How Authors’ Minds…
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Review: Re-Approaching Gregory of Nyssa
Hans Boersma, Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa: An Anagogical Approach. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Edited by Gillian Clark and Andrew Louth. Oxford: Oxford…
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The Joy of Being Blindfolded: Or Why You Should Read Thomas Pynchon
Everyone has at least one piece of literature they are congenitally afraid of picking up. Be it the fear and trembling of page count,…
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David Brown & C.S. Lewis at 2013 AAR/SBL Conference
The Revd Dr Robert MacSwain, a St Andrews alum, alerts us to two sessions at this year’s American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature conference…
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A Persistent Pessimism: On Roger Scruton’s “Why Are Pessimists Ignored?”
One of the many nightmarish global crises indexed in the pages of the New York Times this past week was the identification of an…
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Through the Eyes of Ed Dobson: A Contemporary Saint Biopic
Editor’s Note: In this 3-part series, Christopher R. Brewer and Cole Matson consider Ed’s Story, a series of short films. In Part 1, Brewer introduces…
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