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Cardinal Newman's Pilgrimage, In His Own Words, Robert Ellison
Cardinal Newman's Pilgrimage, In His Own Words, Robert Ellison
English Faculty Research
This is the text of a presentation given at Marshall University on October 14 and 17, 2019, to commemorate the October 13 canonization of John Henry Cardinal Newman. As the title suggests, it draws largely upon his autobiography, an autobiographical novel, and his published letters to trace the trajectory of his religious life, from the earliest glimmers in his mid-teens to his conversion to Catholicism at the age of 44.
Rolle Reassembled: Booklet Production, Single-Author Anthologies, And The Making Of Bodley 861, Andrew B. Kraebel
Rolle Reassembled: Booklet Production, Single-Author Anthologies, And The Making Of Bodley 861, Andrew B. Kraebel
English Faculty Research
The assignment of value to manuscripts on the basis of their antiquity—that is, the notion that books written at a greater distance from the present were therefore more deserving of attention—reflects a sensibility more commonly associated with early modern collectors than with medieval scribes. Malcolm Parkes, for example, though describing many instances of archaizing hands in medieval manuscripts, tends to see these as pragmatic efforts driven by “the need to copy replacement leaves,” a more practical aim than the Tudor valuing of medieval scripts, which “came to be perceived as emblematic of the past.”1 Within this framework, though generally …
Imagination And Environmental Political Thought: The Aftermath Of Thoreau, James Altman
Imagination And Environmental Political Thought: The Aftermath Of Thoreau, James Altman
English Faculty Research
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Reading Roth/Reading Ourselves: Looking Back, Victoria Aarons
Reading Roth/Reading Ourselves: Looking Back, Victoria Aarons
English Faculty Research
Roth thus presents his characters as figures bearing the very seductive possibility of a "multitude of realities." Disenchanted with a worn-out, dampened, banal, and diminished life, one can slip into another, "an exchange of existences," as the wily Zuckerman says. But, in changing those distasteful and objectionable aspects of one's existence, one would do well to caution against the intemperate, impulsive desire, the head-long rush to "change everything," as Zuckerman chastises his brother Henry (Counterlife 156; italics in original). In other words, one would do well to show some restraint, as Roth's characters more often than not humorously …