In “Amber Spyglass,” Pullman rebels against orthodox versions of the afterlife and creates his own.
Tag Archives: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Philip Pullman’s Unorthodox Afterlife
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God Reaches Us through Art
I share a talk about the relationship between God and creativity. Authors mentioned: Shelley, Homer, Plato, Silko, Walker, Clifton.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ode to the West Wind", "the light that came to lucille clifton", Alice Walker, Artist's Way, Ceremony, Color Purple, Creativity, Homer, Intimations of Immortality, Ion, John Milton, Julia Cameron, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lucille Clifton, Paradise Lost, Plato, poetic muse, Republic, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Looking Forward, Not Back
Seeking to resurrect Troy, Aeneas takes on a challenge also facing America.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Hellas", Alfred Lord Tennyson, declining empires, Donald Trump, Make America Great Again, Ulysses Comments closed
O Virgin Mother, Daughter of the Sun
To celebrate Mother’s Day, here’s the moment in “Paradiso” when Dante meets Mary.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ode to the West Wind", Dante, Divine Comedy, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Paradiso, Virgin Mary Comments closed
Byron, Shelley & Greek Independence
A case can be made that Byron and Shelley poems had a tangible effect on the 1820s Greek rebellion.
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Lit & Nature Light Up Same Parts of Brain
The brain doesn’t distinguish between reading about something and actually experiencing it. This has interesting implications for lit.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Defence of Poetry, language, MRI imaging, neurocriticism Comments closed
Why I Think the Way I Think
I survey my intellectual history, especially the evolution of my thinking about literature’s impact on human behavior.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Antonio Gramsci, Beowulf, Carl Jung, Carleton College, Hans Robert Jauss, Harper Lee, Huckleberry Finn, intellectual history, J. Paul Hunter, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jerome Beaty, Karl Marx, Literary Theory, Madame Bovary, Mark Twain, New Criticism, Norman Holland, racism, Reader Response Theory, reception theory, Sigmund Freud, Terry Eagleton, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tobias Smollett Comments closed
