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Chapter Seven: Creative Reading–Literature and Indistinctness
Posted on 03/04/2011 | No CommentsReview of Chapter 7 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions has been hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from 28 March – 3 April 2011. For the full list of reviews across the week... -
Chapter Six: Literature and Critical Intelligence
Posted on 02/04/2011 | 1 CommentReview of Chapter 6 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book from 28 March – 3 April 2011. In Part One of “What Good are the Arts?” John... -
Victorian Poetry, Social Justice, and New Media Satire of Christian Culture
Posted on 09/03/2011 | 8 CommentsI spend most of my time reading and writing about Edith Nesbit. Most Brits remember her best for her novel, The Railway Children. The stage-play adaptation has seen sold out runs in York and London for the last three summers... -
Reading Literature Theologically
Posted on 16/02/2011 | 3 CommentsIf you’ve been following Transpositions over the last week you would have seen the discussion that followed Jim McCullough’s review of Nancy Pearcey’s Saving Leonardo. Though that discussion was about appreciating the visual arts, I’d like to pick up on... -
Becoming Human Through Cooking
Posted on 19/01/2011 | 7 CommentsCall me a hopeless Romantic, but I won’t give up believing that humans are more than machines. Few cookbooks would reinforce my prejudice, but Robert Farrar Capon’s The Supper of the Lamb does the job splendidly. Now, this is no ordinary... -
In the Bleak Mid-Winter
Posted on 20/12/2010 | 1 CommentIn the Bleak Mid-Winter by Christina Rosetti (1872) In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.... -
So You Want People to Read Your Poetry?
Posted on 26/11/2010 | 8 CommentsWhy is it that most literate people do not read much poetry? There was a time in England and even America when volumes of poetry sold as well as novels did. But who really reads poetry today? Even among my...
