The Company of the Creative: A Christian Reader's Guide to Great Literature and Its ThemesKregel Academic - 639 páginas Great works and authors of the world are introduced and reviewed artistically, intellectually, and theologically. Persons discussed include Plato, Milton, Dickens, Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, and C. S. Lewis. |
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... Shakespeare 145 Chapter Seven : Appreciating the Treasures of British Poetry 179 Chapter Eight : Inquiring into the Values of American Poetry 261 Chapter Nine : Sifting the Amazing Trove of British Fiction 306 Chapter Ten : Examining ...
... Shakespeare 145 Chapter Seven : Appreciating the Treasures of British Poetry 179 Chapter Eight : Inquiring into the Values of American Poetry 261 Chapter Nine : Sifting the Amazing Trove of British Fiction 306 Chapter Ten : Examining ...
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... Shakespeare ) . Edith Hamilton defines tragedy as " pain transmuted into ex- altation by the alchemy of poetry . " She rightly observes that only in Periclean Athens and in Elizabethan England have tragedy flourished . Comedy looks re ...
... Shakespeare ) . Edith Hamilton defines tragedy as " pain transmuted into ex- altation by the alchemy of poetry . " She rightly observes that only in Periclean Athens and in Elizabethan England have tragedy flourished . Comedy looks re ...
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... Shakespeare's Hamlet , Mourn- ing Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill , and in Thomas Berger's Orrie's Story . Aeschylus believed we can choose between tragedies and that guilt adheres to families . The notion of sacrifice to placate ...
... Shakespeare's Hamlet , Mourn- ing Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill , and in Thomas Berger's Orrie's Story . Aeschylus believed we can choose between tragedies and that guilt adheres to families . The notion of sacrifice to placate ...
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... Shakespeare directly used Plautus in The Comedy of Errors ; Ben Jonson and Jean Baptiste Moliere borrowed his ideas for several of their plays . Terence was born in North Africa and came to Rome as a slave . All of his plays have ...
... Shakespeare directly used Plautus in The Comedy of Errors ; Ben Jonson and Jean Baptiste Moliere borrowed his ideas for several of their plays . Terence was born in North Africa and came to Rome as a slave . All of his plays have ...
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... Shakespeare in his sonnets have written love poetry like that of Catullus . He took a position as a minor official in distant Bithynia in northern Asia Minor , but re- turned home bankrupt , never really finding himself . He wrote some ...
... Shakespeare in his sonnets have written love poetry like that of Catullus . He took a position as a minor official in distant Bithynia in northern Asia Minor , but re- turned home bankrupt , never really finding himself . He wrote some ...
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Tapping the Vitality of the Renaissance | 77 |
Revisiting Crucial Ideas from | 103 |
Weighing the Christian Heritage | 145 |
Appreciating the Treasures of British Poetry | 179 |
Inquiring into the Values of American Poetry | 261 |
Examining the Startling Surges | 375 |
Broadening the Search into World Literature | 425 |
Exploring the Literature of and About | 490 |
Assessing the Literature of Drama and | 512 |
Searching Through the Vast World of | 532 |
Selecting the Best in the Daunting Array | 558 |
Reading and Its Future | 582 |
Sifting the Amazing Trove of British Fiction | 306 |
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The Company of the Creative: A Christian Reader's Guide to Great Literature ... David L. Larsen Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
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