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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... characters off from anything that seems transcendent.21 Much newer writing seems " market - driven " and caters ( as does much late - twentieth - century preaching ) to shal- low culture and pop psychology . It is left to ethnic fiction ...
... characters off from anything that seems transcendent.21 Much newer writing seems " market - driven " and caters ( as does much late - twentieth - century preaching ) to shal- low culture and pop psychology . It is left to ethnic fiction ...
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... characters from a remote and alien mythology . " The Romans wanted entertainment and hence comedy , which says something about their approach to life . There is no Roman tragedy until Seneca . Plautus came from Umbria near Gaul , and ...
... characters from a remote and alien mythology . " The Romans wanted entertainment and hence comedy , which says something about their approach to life . There is no Roman tragedy until Seneca . Plautus came from Umbria near Gaul , and ...
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... characters with little slapstick . He was a mas- ter of language . His most popular play , Eunuchus , is a delicate treatment of the difficult sexual self - image of the castrated slave . Hamilton contrasts the two writers and their ...
... characters with little slapstick . He was a mas- ter of language . His most popular play , Eunuchus , is a delicate treatment of the difficult sexual self - image of the castrated slave . Hamilton contrasts the two writers and their ...
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... ( character ) was even more important for the speaker than logos ( content ) or pathos ( passion ) .4 We possess nine hundred of his letters , which greatly illuminate life in his time . His dialogical essays " On Friendship " and " On ...
... ( character ) was even more important for the speaker than logos ( content ) or pathos ( passion ) .4 We possess nine hundred of his letters , which greatly illuminate life in his time . His dialogical essays " On Friendship " and " On ...
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... character . The action is set on Easter in the year 1300 , when Dante is thirty - five years old . The epic poem describes Dante's journey through hell , purgatory , and paradise . The work is still widely read . In En- glish the ...
... character . The action is set on Easter in the year 1300 , when Dante is thirty - five years old . The epic poem describes Dante's journey through hell , purgatory , and paradise . The work is still widely read . In En- glish the ...
Contenido
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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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