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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, ...