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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... sense , a tragedy is a deep , moving nar- rative dealing with suffering or the human condition and ending in a dark cli- max . A comedy is a light drama that has a happy ending . The number of books in either work is intentional ; there ...
... sense , a tragedy is a deep , moving nar- rative dealing with suffering or the human condition and ending in a dark cli- max . A comedy is a light drama that has a happy ending . The number of books in either work is intentional ; there ...
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... sense of what life was like in this stormy period . The quest for home is the underlying theme of much of the Odyssey . The home- coming of Agamemnon is stirringly depicted . The sentry waited at Argos , straining to see the tongue of ...
... sense of what life was like in this stormy period . The quest for home is the underlying theme of much of the Odyssey . The home- coming of Agamemnon is stirringly depicted . The sentry waited at Argos , straining to see the tongue of ...
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... sense of the forest , though they neglect a few trees . We need their perspective . An intriguing dual autobiography of the Durants is Will and Ariel Durant ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 1977 ) . Durant left Catholi- cism ...
... sense of the forest , though they neglect a few trees . We need their perspective . An intriguing dual autobiography of the Durants is Will and Ariel Durant ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 1977 ) . Durant left Catholi- cism ...
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... sense of purpose . Yet this did not ultimately lead him to peace . In a short time , Alexander , his hero , died of debauchery ; Demosthenes , the great orator , drank poison ; and Aristotle , depressed and disappointed , Diogenes ...
... sense of purpose . Yet this did not ultimately lead him to peace . In a short time , Alexander , his hero , died of debauchery ; Demosthenes , the great orator , drank poison ; and Aristotle , depressed and disappointed , Diogenes ...
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... sense ; Will , like a friend , familiarly convey The truest notion in the easiest way . " Carpe diem " ( " seize the day " ) was his watchword . Bitter , purple passages of his earlier work were mellowed in the Odes of his later career ...
... sense ; Will , like a friend , familiarly convey The truest notion in the easiest way . " Carpe diem " ( " seize the day " ) was his watchword . Bitter , purple passages of his earlier work were mellowed in the Odes of his later career ...
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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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