Renascence back issues from January 2005:
GATHERING THE SCATTERED BODY OF MILTON'S AREOPAGITICA
Jan 01, 2005; ... It is the willful disregard of history that is the object of critique in the pages that follow. (Fish, No Such Thing ix) MODERN scholarship of Milton's Areopagitica is understandably perplexed on some points. The tone of Milton's panegyric on freedom of speech resonates with current ...
MUSIC, SILENCE, AND THE SPIRITUALITY OF WILLA CATHER1
Jan 01, 2005; ... Nothing really matters but living . . . Accomplishments are the ornaments of life, they come second. Sometimes people disappoint us, and sometimes we disappoint ourselves; but the thing is, to go right on living. (Lucy Gayhearf) Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore ...
Erratum
Jan 01, 2005; ... In Volume 57, issue 1, the title of Margaret M. Strain's essay should have read " 'Renouncing ...
THE NEED OF SOME IMPERISHABLE BLISS: JOHN UPDIKE'S TOWARD THE END OF TIME
Jan 01, 2005; ... IN his searching and self-questioning memoir, Self-Consciousness (1989), John Updike writes: "Perhaps there are two kinds of people, those for whom nothingness is no problem, and those for whom it is an insuperable problem" (240). Readers familiar with his long career know that Updike is one of ...
FLAUBERT'S "MYSTERY PLAY": A DAY IN THE LIFE OF MADAME BOVARY
Jan 01, 2005; ... THE object of mystery plays was religious. Gustave Flaubert, it is often thought, was rather removed from any interest in religion and was, if anything, somewhat cynical about it. Studies have nevertheless demonstrated the rich resource that religion offered him for the composition of many of ...
Errata
Jan 01, 2005; ... Please note the following corrections to David Anthony Downes's essay "The Hopkins Society:The Making of a World Class Poet" (Volume 57, Issue 4): Page 270: line 1 should read "Giles also" Page 276: line 2, delete second "was" Page 296: 2nd paragraph, line ...
CULTURAL CONFESSIONS: PENANCE AND PENITENCE IN NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S THE SCARLET LETTER AND THE MARBLE FAUN
Jan 01, 2005; ... ACCORDING to Nathaniel Hawthorne's biographer, Henry James, Jr., Hawthorne's heritage as a descendant of the "clearest Puritan strain" served to restrict his literary talent to the exploration of one theme: the "consciousness of sin" (5, 8). In 1858, Hawthorne observed Catholicism as he ...
THE PRODIGAL SON PARABLE AND MACLEAN'S A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
Jan 01, 2005; ... THERE is no question that the "brother's keeper" theme provides the strongest theological and dramatic momentum in Norman Maclean's beautifully lyrical story of fishing, family and religion. Even first time and casual readers of Maclean's poignant and cathartic tale of guilt and grief recall the ...
THE VOICE OF LANCELOT ANDREWES IN ELIOT'S ASH-WEDNESDAY
Jan 01, 2005; ... WHEN T. S. Eliot revealed in 1928 that the viewpoint of his forthcoming work would be "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, anglo-catholic in religion," (Andrewes ix) many critics were not amused. Or else, like Sherry Mangan, they were very amused indeed: If even certain ...
HAMLET, RECONCILIATION, AND THE JUST STATE
Jan 01, 2005; ... HAMLET'S personae proceed in pairs. Scholars have long noted that in Hamlet Shakespeare gives us not only braces of siblings and lovers but nearly interchangeable "doubles" (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Cornelius and Voltemand), as well as pairs of characters whose situations are oddly ...