Recently added articles from Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature:
The resurrection of the dead in The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.
Sep 22, 2008; ... As the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar notes, almost in passing and with lapidary precision, Shakespeare takes the risk of portraying the return from the realm of the dead as a pure gift to those in mourning. In these self-contained [romances] the Christian resurrection from the ...
Ego-Evil and "The Tell-Tale Heart".(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Why do you observe the splinter in your brother's eye and never notice the plank in your own? (Matt 7:3) (1) Those without sight may see and those with sight turn blind. (John 9:39) IN The Metastases of Enjoyment, Lacanian critic Slavoj Zizek defines Ego-Evil in this ...
Newman's romantic meta-rhetoric in an Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent.(John Henry Newman)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... LATE in December of 1859, William Froude wrote to his old Oxford friend John Henry Newman in desperation. (1) Newman had, in his gracious, gentlemanly fashion, successfully proselytized Froude's wife and all his children, adding the final touch with his reception of their son, Hurrell, ...
Diagnosis and ethics in Richard Ford's A Multitude of Sins.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... WHY does Richard Ford write? I'd suggest that his books can be seen as a sort of diagnosis. That old Greek word means collecting symptoms and establishing distinctions between them (dia) and then producing a body of knowledge (gnosis) that can later be used critically in order to enhance ...
Misthinking the king: the theatrics of Christian rule in Henry VI, Part 3.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... IF we were to trust A Mirror for Magistrates, Henry VI "him selfe was cause of the destruccion of many noble princes, being of all other most vnfortunate him selfe" (211). Or was he king Henry the syxt a vertuous prince, [who] was after many other miseries cruelly murdered in the Tower of ...