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Gerasim's Compassion In Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, David V. Urban Mar 2015

Gerasim's Compassion In Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, David V. Urban

Resuscitating Paideia: Reading Literature for Wisdom

In this article on Gerasim, from Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, David Urban examines this character's example of compassion in the face of his master's terminal illness. Urban suggests that all humans would do well to follow Gerasim's example, especially in light of everyone's mortality.


Happy Rural Seat: Book 4 Of Paradise Lost, Leland Ryken Mar 2015

Happy Rural Seat: Book 4 Of Paradise Lost, Leland Ryken

Resuscitating Paideia: Reading Literature for Wisdom

Over many years, Dr. Leland Ryken has taught Paradise Lost. In this fireside chat, Ryken discusses his favorite book of the epic poem, Book 4, including the wisdom he has gained from it.


Shakespeare's Comic Universe, Louis Markos Mar 2015

Shakespeare's Comic Universe, Louis Markos

Resuscitating Paideia: Reading Literature for Wisdom

In this meditation on Shakespeare's comedies, Lou Markos examines, in particular, parallels between grand biblical narratives, such as the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, and Shakespeare's many marriage resolutions.


Wiser Blood. The Wisest. A Memoir On First Reading Flannery O’Connor, P. Kevin Heath Mar 2015

Wiser Blood. The Wisest. A Memoir On First Reading Flannery O’Connor, P. Kevin Heath

Resuscitating Paideia: Reading Literature for Wisdom

In this memoir, Kevin Heath explains how his encounter with Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood helped him come to terms with his own faith and reject ersatz attempts to express it.


Spoiling The Egyptians: An Introduction To Resuscitating Paideia, Helena Nellie Sullivan Mar 2015

Spoiling The Egyptians: An Introduction To Resuscitating Paideia, Helena Nellie Sullivan

Resuscitating Paideia: Reading Literature for Wisdom

In this article, Helena Sullivan shares the mission statement and vision for the journal Resuscitating Paideia. She also explains how reading literature for wisdom looks as it's applied to a particular text, in this case, Homer's Odyssey. More specifically, she examines Book V of that epic, in which Odysseus leaves the goddess Kalypso.