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EDITOR'S PAGE
Apr 01, 2008; ... It is with great pleasure that I announce the winner of the second Joseph M. Schwartz Memorial Essay Prize. Professor Ellen Caldwell's " 'Banish all the wor(l)d': Falstaff 's Iconoclastic Threat to Kingship in I Henry IV," (published in the Summer, 2007 issue of Renascence) was chosen by a ...
THE ARTIST AS PEACEMAKER: "BABETTE'S FEAST" AS A NARRATIVE OF RECONCILIATION
Apr 01, 2008; ... In the preface to one of his Stories of God, Rainer Maria Rilke describes the circular course of God's journey in human history. In ancient times, he says, people prayed with their arms wide open and God buried himself in the darkness of human hearts. But then a new faith came and people began ...
THE LIGHT OF THE EYE: THE PROBLEM OF RICHARD WILBUR'S METAPHYSICS
Apr 01, 2008; ... OVER the course of its critical reception, Richard Wilbur's poetry has garnered both praise for its gracefulness as well as strong critique for its consistently hopeful thematic content. One of the points of contention for critics has to do with his problematic status as a religious poet ....
DOING PENANCE IN THE OLD WEST: "SISTERS" AS ANDRE DUBUS'S FINAL WORD ON SUFFERING RAPE
Apr 01, 2008; ... IN the May / June issue of 1999, the journal Book posthumously published "Sisters," a short story by Andre Dubus sent to the editors two days before his death in February of that same year. Imbued with the mystique of nostalgia and vigilante justice, "Sisters" is the story of a woman raped and ...
HUMAN MALEVOLENCE AND PROVIDENCE IN KING LEAR
Apr 01, 2008; ... Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep. (4.2.49-50) IN 1903, Bertrand Russell captured the essence of the modern secular worldview in a well-known passage in "A Free Man's Worship": Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, ...
INSTRUCTION WITH AMUSEMENT: JANE AUSTEN'S WOMEN OF SENSE
Oct 01, 2007; ... MANY viewers recall the amusing scenes in the film Sense and Sensibility (directed by Ang Lee, 1995) in which Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant) plays with Margaret Dashwood (Emilie François), the younger sister of Elinor and Marianne. The only problem is that the scenes do not appear in the novel of ...
THE PLASTICITY OF THE MERELY HUMAN: SECULAR PERFECTION AND THE LIMITS OF AESTHETICS IN WAUGH'S LOVE AMONG THE RUINS
Oct 01, 2007; ... For most of my life I found greater joy in the works of man than of nature, until quite late, and now it is revulsion from the works of man that has constricted, rather than approach to nature that has enlarged, me. Evelyn Waugh, A Little Learning (1964). 'Do you believe in God, ...
"BUT I WAS DEAD": SASSOON AND GRAVES ON LIFE AFTER DEATH
Oct 01, 2007; ... ON 20 July 1916, Captain Robert Graves - four days shy of his twenty-first birthday but already a published poet - was severely wounded during fighting at Bazentin-le-Petit on the Somme. With a shell fragment having pierced his right lung and eight wounds in total (Seymour-Smith 49), the ...
"HELP THOU MINE UNBELIEF": PERCEPTION IN DENISE LEVERTOV'S RELIGIOUS POETRY
Oct 01, 2007; ... PAUL Lacey in "To Meditate a Saving Strategy': Denise Levertov's Religious Poetry" (1997-1998) acknowledges that Levertov has "always been a religious poet" who "borrowed from spiritual or religious discourse" (Renascence 17). Lacey emphasizes her determination to "explore such borderlands ...