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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The New Illiteracy - Michael D. O'BrienThe new visual media is pleasurable, but it is a tyrant. While the reader's imagination can select what it wishes to focus on, in electronic visual media the mind is pummeled with powerful stimuli that bypass conscious and subconscious defenses. Read more... The No-Nonsense Network - Christopher WillcoxRita Antoinette Rizzo could not have imagined her improbable future when, as a little girl with a Buster Brown haircut, she sat on the corner of Liberty and 11th Street in Canton, Ohio, conversing with prostitutes and gangsters. Read more... The Oldest Morality Play - Charles ColsonIt's an opening familiar to millions of Americans. A New York resident is walking down the street, minding his own business — maybe arguing with his spouse or chatting with a friend. Read more... The Only Acceptable Bigotry - NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTERThomas Doherty, a professor of Film Studies at Brandeis University, sees Hollywood's defense of the movie Dogma as another instance of the only acceptable bigotry in American-bigotry against Catholics. Read more... The other side of the wardrobe - Rev. Raymond de SouzaNarnia lies just on the other side of the mysterious wardrobe. The Christian imagination is that the mystical and the supernatural lie just on the other side of the ordinary, the mundane, and the natural. Read more... The profound mysteries of why we enjoy music - Paul JohnsonA number of readers have written to me about the essay I wrote on the failure to develop a satisfactory philosophy of music, asking where they could find further information. Read more... The Rape of the Masters - Roger KimballColleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. Read more... The Relentless Cult of Novelty - Alexander SolzhenitsynFor several decades now, writes Nobel prize for literature winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, world literature, music, painting and sculpture have exhibited a stubborn tendency to grow not higher but to the side, not toward the highest achievements of craftsmanship and of the human spirit but toward their disintegration into a frantic and insidious "novelty." Read more... The Relevance and Challenge of C. S. Lewis - Mark BrumleyInterest in Lewis is on the upswing, again, especially with the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe movie and portents of many more in a series of Chronicles of Narnia feature films. What, then, to make of this highly influential, Belfast-born Christian thinker and writer, and his impact on modern Christianity? Read more... The Restoration of Christian Storytelling - Michael D. O'BrienThe imagination was originally created to be God's territory, a faculty of man's soul that would help him to comprehend the invisible realities. Though the modern imagination has reverted to the pre-pagan split in consciousness, haunted and malformed by false stories, the territory can be reclaimed. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 26-Feb-2011 - 11:00:17
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