Browsing the archives for the Literature category
I’m not sure I would have liked Chesterton, the person. But I sure do like his writing. I found this little piece he wrote about George Macdonald. Now George is someone I truly believe would be great to pal around with. At least I think so. Carlyle could never have said anything so subtle and [...]
I remember a joke that my recently retired colleague Jacob Needleman once said about a cutting edge new course that was being developed: “The Bible as Religious Text”! Well, here’s the opposite. A very nice presentation by Robert Alter (UC Berkeley) on the Bible Through Literary Eyes. Share/Bookmark
The old joke goes that a new course was being offered in a university religion department: “The Bible of Religious Document”. A “new” course because of the more typical “Bible as literature” classes. James Wood thinks biblical characters lack inner lives. Tod Linafelt thinks otherwise in this article from The Chronicle of Higher Education. It [...]