It’s that dismissal of children, that nostalgic lens for regarding childhood as a state free from the weight of real fears or anxieties, that bothers me.
Have the Literary Arts Become Too Secularized?
January 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Wolfe claims that spiritual and religious themes have taken a subtler, less pronounced position in modern literature, but they are no less present.”
Longing for Fiction
December 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In his text Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories, C. S. Lewis writes of fairy stories that “it would be much truer to say that fairy land arouses a longing for he knows not what.” It stirs and troubles him (to his life-long enrichment) with the dim sense of something beyond his reach and, far from [...]
Vonnegut's Breakfast… and so on.
September 1, 2008 By 7 Comments
Follow Patheos
Evangelical: