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21The Tell-Tale Hand: Gothic Narratives and the BrainText Matters - a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture 6 (1): 96-113. 2016.The opening story in Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson is called simply “Hands.” It is about a teacher’s remarkable hands that sometimes seem to move independently of his will. This essay explores some of the relevant contexts and potential links, beginning with other representations of teachers’ hands, such as Caravaggio’s St. Matthew and the Angel, early efforts to establish a sign-language for the deaf, and including the Montessori method of teaching children to read and write by tracing t…Read more
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4Milton and Catholicism. Edited by Ronald Corthell & Thomas N. Corns. Pp. viii, 220, Notre Dame, Indiana, University of Notre Dame Press, 2017, £35.43/$50.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 59 (1): 114-115. 2018.Reviws a book about Milton and catholiciam
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7Divine Evil? The Moral Character of the God of Abraham: Divine Evil? The Moral Character of the God of Abraham. Edited by Michael Bergmann, Michael J. Murray & Michael C. Rea. , pp. xii + 337. $140.00/£54.55 (review)Scottish Journal of Theology 68 (4): 484-487. 2015.
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15‘Lycidas’: A Wolf in Saint's ClothingCritical Inquiry 35 (3): 684-702. 2009.The article takes seriously the etymology of the hero's name in Milton's Lycidas, suggesting that the wolfish presence, also denounced in the course of the poem, complicates the praise for Milton's dead friend.
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20The Quest For The Historical Satan. By Miguel A. De La Torre & Albert Hernandez. Pp. xii, 248, Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2011, $20.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 56 (1): 146-148. 2015.The book reviewed is interesting but not top quality, not properly professional.
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30‘Comfort Me With Apples’: Ambivalent Allusion in Paradise LostThe European Legacy 17 (2). 2012.Paradise Lost can be read on various levels, some of which challenge or even contradict others. The main, explicit narrative from Genesis chapters 2 and 3 is shadowed by many other related stories. Some of these buried tales question or subvert the values made explicit in the dominant narrative. An attentive reader needs to be alert to the ways in which such references introduce teasing complexities. The approach of Satan to Eve in the ninth book of Paradise Lost is loaded in just that way with …Read more
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15Divine Evil? The Moral Character of the God of Abraham. Edited by Michael Bergmann, Michael J. Murray, Michael C. Rea. Pp. xii, 337, Oxford University Press, PB 2013 [HB 2011], $43.59 (review)Heythrop Journal 58 (2): 279-282. 2017.this artidle reviews a book about biblical influence
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Normative Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |