Returning to the States, I am put in mind of flying images in Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” and Magee’s poem “High Flight.”
Monthly Archives: November 2022
My Slovenian Lit Classes
I list the classes I taught at the University of Ljubljana this past month.
The Annual Maple Dance
Scott Bates’s “Maple Dance” never gets old.
Philosophy Discusses Fearless Speech
Foucault uses Euripides to describe what the Greeks meant by “fearless speech.” Such speech is important is standing up to authoritarians today.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Bacchae, Electra, Euripides, Fearless speech, free speech, Michel Foucault, Phoenician Women Comments closed
Quick! – The Gates Are Drawn Apart
A C.S. Lewis poem that captures Advent longing.
On Black Friday, Stay Focused
In “Ceremony,” Leslie Marmon Silko warns what can happen if we let commercialization blind us to our real gifts. It’s a good lesson for Black Friday.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Black Friday, Ceremony, drought, Leslie Marmon Silko, technology, Thanksgiving Comments closed
Gratitude, as Explained by Milton
Visiting Milton’s hymns of gratitude in “Paradise Lost” are one way of celebrating Thanksgiving.
Awed by the Alps
Visiting the Slovenian Alps got me thinking of Wordsworth approaching the mountain range further west. Our experience was less foreboding.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Shell", James Stephens, Prelude, Slovenian Alps, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Moby Dick and The Whale (2022 Movie Version)
In the 2022 film “The Whale,” and English professor searching for authenticity finds it in a childhood essay on “Moby Dick.”
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Theme for English B", Darren Aronofsky, Herman Melville, Langston Hughes, Moby Dick, Whale Comments closed
