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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Assurances of Faith: How Catholic was Shakespeare? How Catholic are his Plays? - Paul J. VossThe Catholic imagination — the imagination that allowed Shakespeare to sprinkle his plays with references to Catholic religious beliefs and practices in meaningful ways — also helped to create the fictive worlds of Denmark, Rome, Verona, Venice, and Illyria. The imagination that made him Catholic also helped make him the greatest writer in the English-speaking world. Read more... Auden and the Limits of Poetry - Alan JacobsBy the mid-1930s W. H. Auden was the most famous and most widely imitated young poet in England. Read more... Awakening the Moral Imagination: Teaching Virtues Through Fairy Tales - Vigen GuroianFairy tale and modern fantasy stories project fantastic other worlds; but they also pay close attention to real moral "laws" of character and virtue. By portraying wonderful and frightening worlds in which ugly beasts are transformed into princes and evil persons are turned to stones and good persons back to flesh, fairy tales remind us of moral truths whose ultimate claims to normativity and permanence we would not think of questioning. Read more... Be thankful Jane was so plain - Barbara KayA beautiful Jane Austen would have been a lesser writer. Read more... Beauty and Desecration - Roger ScrutonAt any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked an educated person to describe the goal of poetry, art, or music, “beauty” would have been the answer. Read more... Beauty and its corruptions - Roger ScrutonIn an age of declining faith art bears enduring witness to the spiritual hunger and immortal longings of our species. Hence aesthetic education matters more today than at any previous period in history. Read more... Beauty and the Best - Theodore DalrympleA controversy recently erupted in Sweden over an article published by the philosopher, Roger Scruton, in a magazine called Axess. He argued in it that Western art no longer had any spiritual, let alone religious, content; indeed, it had become afraid of the beautiful, from which it shied away as a horse from a hurdle too high for it. Read more... Benedict’s Mozart - Rev. Andreas Kramarz, L.C.What the Pope learned from his favorite composer. Read more... Bernini's bust of Louis XIV - Paul JohnsonThe relationship between a great artist and his sitters is a poignant one. But what they say to each other during the long periods of concentrated stillness, on the one hand, and frenzied search for a likeness, on the other, is seldom recorded. Read more... Bizarre Narratives and Christian Truth - Charles ColsonFor twenty years the letters sat in sealed boxes in a library at Emory University. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 05-Nov-2009 - 15:26:44
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