“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” may represent the clash between two strains of Christianity which today we describe as Dominionism and Green Christianity. The 14th century poem definitely comes down on the green side.
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Sir Gawain and Celtic Spirituality
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Style, Not Truth, the Important Thing
Truth was missing in action in the GOP’s Wednesday night debate. Oscar Wilde and John Gay would have understood.
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Cruz as Beowulf? Try Grendel
Thursday Normally I would be delighted with a New York Times article that matched up presidential candidates with works of literature, such as Ted Cruz with Beowulf, Hillary Clinton with Persuasion, and Bernie Sanders with Around the World in 80 Days. This piece, however, strikes me as so uninformative that it’s all but useless. I’ve tried […]
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For a Rich Life, Read Widely and Freely
Literature impacts our lives but the influence is best if we read a wide variety of works. Limiting ourselves to just a few authors can warp us.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Company We Keep, D. H. Lawrence, ethics of fiction, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov, Wayne Booth, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Lit vs. the Evils of History–More Debate
While literature can seem helpless in the face of history’s cataclysms, it proves far more durable than the events that seem to overwhelm it.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Alexander the Great, Don Quixote, Homer, Iliad, Miguel de Cervantes, politics, W. H. Auden Comments closed
The Maple’s Annual Striptease
Scott Bates describes the trees undergoing a months-long striptease in “Maple Dance.”
Can Lit Also Be a Force for Evil? A Debate
The classics are capable to doing great good but can they also do harm? Even as they powerfully open up the mind to new possibilities, can they also close it down? A debate.
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