Surviving the Sahara: On Being Bored
In his 1989 address to the graduating class of Dartmouth College the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky decided to forego the platitudes that comprise such…
Denny Kinlaw is Assistant Professor of English and a member of the Honors College at Houston Baptist University. He is former Editor of Transpositions and he is completing his PhD on the intersection of literary theory and theology in the fiction of David Foster Wallace at the Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts, University of St Andrews. Before coming to St Andrews, Denny conducted research for Kirk Documentary Group in Boston, MA producing documentary films for PBS FRONTLINE. He received his BA in English from Harvard University in 2008.
In his 1989 address to the graduating class of Dartmouth College the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky decided to forego the platitudes that comprise such…
We are pleased to be back in the saddle here at Transpositions after a luxuriously spent winter intermission. In a way, our return was…
In his 1989 address to the graduating class of Dartmouth College the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky decided to forego the platitudes that comprise such…
“…some to church repair, / Not for the doctrine, but the music there.” – Alexander Pope [1] On most Sundays the Norwegian Seamen’s Church situated…
“The taste for the useful predominates over the love of the beautiful in the heart of man,” writes Alexis de Tocqueville at the opening…
Everyone has at least one piece of literature they are congenitally afraid of picking up. Be it the fear and trembling of page count,…
When postmodernity marked the “aestheticization” of reality, the lines between high and low culture collapsed and a sensibility devoted to seeing the world as…