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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... returning Greeks , Odysseus faces one obstacle after another . But he is a prudent man , of great cunning and endurance ( Odyssey , 2.166ff . ) . He contends with the Cyclops ; the lotus - eaters , whose fruit diminishes memories of ...
... returning Greeks , Odysseus faces one obstacle after another . But he is a prudent man , of great cunning and endurance ( Odyssey , 2.166ff . ) . He contends with the Cyclops ; the lotus - eaters , whose fruit diminishes memories of ...
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... returned to Ithaca after so many years . The " going home " theme is a fruitful line to ponder and probe in view of every person's longing for home . The constant whispered exchanges between Odysseus and Athena were very critical ...
... returned to Ithaca after so many years . The " going home " theme is a fruitful line to ponder and probe in view of every person's longing for home . The constant whispered exchanges between Odysseus and Athena were very critical ...
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... returned to Athens to found the Lyceum . Plato and Aristotle share much in common , but Plato's surviving works flow lucidly , while Aristotle's are tough - going , angular , and awkward . But remember that we are reading lecture notes ...
... returned to Athens to found the Lyceum . Plato and Aristotle share much in common , but Plato's surviving works flow lucidly , while Aristotle's are tough - going , angular , and awkward . But remember that we are reading lecture notes ...
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... returned to Rome to work in a flour mill and started writing his 130 plays . Especially tantalizing are his The Merchant . Mother - in - Law , and The Ass - Comedy . Here is banter and humor about Roman domestic life . Women appear as ...
... returned to Rome to work in a flour mill and started writing his 130 plays . Especially tantalizing are his The Merchant . Mother - in - Law , and The Ass - Comedy . Here is banter and humor about Roman domestic life . Women appear as ...
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... returned to Rome to find his assets had been confiscated . Penniless , he began to write poetry , and through the poet Vergil's good offices was introduced to a wealthy patron , Maecenas , who gave him a little farm in the Sabine Hills ...
... returned to Rome to find his assets had been confiscated . Penniless , he began to write poetry , and through the poet Vergil's good offices was introduced to a wealthy patron , Maecenas , who gave him a little farm in the Sabine Hills ...
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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