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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... turned many Americans into shut - ins . Meaning and values develop , and are debated , via the electronic media.2 Neil Postman has alerted us to the shift from the Age of Exposition to the Age of Entertainment courtesy the media . Will ...
... turned many Americans into shut - ins . Meaning and values develop , and are debated , via the electronic media.2 Neil Postman has alerted us to the shift from the Age of Exposition to the Age of Entertainment courtesy the media . Will ...
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... turned back to study and discuss some of the great works of literature and eventually concluded that the " great books " are great . " In a " frankly oppositional work , " The Pleasures of Reading , Robert Alter is so presumptuous as to ...
... turned back to study and discuss some of the great works of literature and eventually concluded that the " great books " are great . " In a " frankly oppositional work , " The Pleasures of Reading , Robert Alter is so presumptuous as to ...
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... turned home bankrupt , never really finding himself . He wrote some poetry that insulted Julius Caesar but was reconciled to him . He was apparently plagued with a terrible cough and died young . He is in his outlook what the apostle ...
... turned home bankrupt , never really finding himself . He wrote some poetry that insulted Julius Caesar but was reconciled to him . He was apparently plagued with a terrible cough and died young . He is in his outlook what the apostle ...
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... turned down the offer to be private secretary to Augustus , fearing that he would become a slave . Perhaps he did not wish to be a sycophant of the emerg- ing new order he had once opposed . Thus , for many years he celebrated rural ...
... turned down the offer to be private secretary to Augustus , fearing that he would become a slave . Perhaps he did not wish to be a sycophant of the emerg- ing new order he had once opposed . Thus , for many years he celebrated rural ...
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... turned into a donkey travels the world witnessing human foibles . Most outstanding of the non - Roman authors is Plutarch ( 46-120 ) . Plutarch was born in Chaeronea in Boeotia , Greece . He studied in Athens and lectured in Rome . Many ...
... turned into a donkey travels the world witnessing human foibles . Most outstanding of the non - Roman authors is Plutarch ( 46-120 ) . Plutarch was born in Chaeronea in Boeotia , Greece . He studied in Athens and lectured in Rome . Many ...
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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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