Paradise Lost: The Fall That Defied Gravity
To “justify the ways of God to men”: these words famously describe John Milton’s intent in writing Paradise Lost, the epic poem he...
Moldenke, the Magic Rat, and Postmodern Pain
Postmodernist analysis by definition is analytical, occurs in the mind, is intellectual, and creates its own reality or point of...
Look Inward
John Dewey’s Art as Experience and Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind John Dewey wrote Art as Experience, his book-length...
An Examination of the Pequod’s Constitution and Ahab’s Physicality
Based on Bill Brown’s proposal about museum exhibition and Alan Heimert’s examination of the political metaphors in Moby-Dick, I want to...
Enchantment and Earthkeeping
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Cosmic Dance at Cross Creek When author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moved from urban life to an orange grove in...
Books to E-readers: Probing the intersection of technological and sensory shifts in a digital age
For most people in the Western world, the mere idea of getting through daily life without reliance on some form of digital technology is...
Social Consciousness of the Spanish Inquisition
The formal initiation of the Spanish Inquisition built on the previous inquisitions like a ball of snow, where once set rolling...
St. Augustine’s Phenomenology of Memory and Self
A Reading of Book Ten of The Confessions In the first nine books of The Confessions, Saint Augustine recalls and relates his life and his...
Mortality and Art: Why Do We Create?
Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go In his 1947 essay “Why Write?” Jean-Paul...
In Praise of the Night Class
Given the recent hubbub and huzzah surrounding the many and alleged splendors of blended and distance learning, it’s fair to say that the...