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Rubrics
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Material Posted on This Site
Art
and Music Essays
exploring the friction between great music and other non-literary arts (we hope
to receive more submissions in the future about architecture and painting) and
the incomprehension or malice of Western culture's recent arbiters.
Cultural
Analysis Discussion
of issues ranging broadly among the various crude or careless assumptions which seem to
underlie value judgments and daily activity in contemporary society.
Faith
and Art Essays
examining, in particular, the representation of religious faith in literature,
film, and other narrative forms, the authors' intent being better to understand
either a certain work's creator, an entire period's spiritual pulse, or an
abiding answer to a timeless question.
Literary
Criticism Responses to
the half-century of post-structuralist orthodoxy on whose watch the literary
canon has been dismantled and the prominence of literary studies on college
campuses minimized.
Literary
Reminiscence Personal,
often nostalgic appreciations of authors or genres (sometimes in the classical
vein, sometimes more popular) that have enriched lives.
Literary
Studies Analyses
of specific literary works or of a particular range of works, the method being
either to examine intra-textual resonances closely or to frame texts within
their culture or against a set of assumptions about human nature.
Literature in the
Classroom Assessments
of the undeniably formidable task facing the contemporary teacher of language
and literature at all levels in our ever less literate culture.
Studies
in Pop Culture
Estimates
(arriving at various degrees of dismay) of contemporary Western culture based on
our favorite amusements and entertainments.
Parody
and Satire
Gestures
toward a lighter vein (not always appreciated by the ideologically zealous) in a
time much in need of therapeutic release and within areas where intellectuals
tend to grow altogether too pompous.
Short
Stories from Praesidium
As
indicated above, the journal publishes too many short stories for an inventory
to be meaningful. However, we have drawn up an index of Ivor Davies'
celebrated satires of the academy since they appear to be distinctly interesting
to our professional audience.
Items
are listed with the most recent appearing at the top (i.e., serial essays begin
with the last part); authors are alphabetized within rubrics.
Art
and Music
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
* Confessions
of a Symphomaniac: Of Luck, Music, and the Training of the Soul
*
The
"New" Berlioz: Musical High Romanticism in an Age of Technical and
Ideological Correctness
*
The
High Hills: Frederick Delius and the Secular Sublime
John
R. Harris
* Can Glory Blaze from the Void?
Thoughts on the Tenuous Connection between
Painting and Literacy
*
Five-Finger
Exercise for the Hairy Paw: How Music Might Rehabilitate Literacy
Gary
Inbinder
*
Fashion
Art and the Moral Imagination
Allan
Shields
*
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Next Career
Peter
T. Singleton
*
The
Feminine Figure in Painting
Mark Wegierski
*
Have
Late Modern Values and Technology Made Great Art Impossible?
Cultural
Analysis
Helen
Andretta, Gianna DiRoberti, et al.
*
Why
Boys Shoot:
Culturally Conservative Scholars Review Our Crisis in Masculinity with Minimal
Statistics and a Classically Christian Sense of Human Nature (book)
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
*
“The
Catastrophe”: What the End of Bronze Age Civilization Means for Modern Times
*
The
Anthropological and Psychological Origins of
Political Correctness… with Emphasis on Howard
Schwartz’s The Revolt of the Primitive
John R. Harris
*
Messages
to the French: The Six Radio Broadcasts
of
Jules Romains to His Countrymen in Occupied
France
from 1940 to 1941
*
Orality
and Literacy Revisited: Beleaguered Allies Against the Technical Onslaught of
the Visual
*
Freedom
Grows on Trees: A Eudemonist Economics (Part II)
*
Freedom Grows on Trees: A Eudemonist Economics (I)
* A Taxonomy of North American Society’s Narratives of Catastrophe and
Dissolution
*
The
Narcissus Narcosis:
A Platonic Dialogue on the Plight of Culture in Contemporary Society
* The
Aesthetic Crisis of Post-Literacy: How Lack of Finesse
Feeds Moral Collapse
*
Daggerpoints
and Loggerheads: Intellectualism
and the Decline of the West (Part III)
*
Daggerpoints
and Loggerheads: The Twentieth Century’s
Fatal Division into
Ideological
Camps (Part II)
*
Daggerpoints
and Loggerheads: A Sad Time’s Taste
for Perverse Oppositions (Part I)
*
Toward
Anthroponomy: How Western Culture
Has Become Its Own Worst Enemy
*
Semper
Inutile: In Praise of the Useless
Howard
S. Schwartz
*
Religion
Against Itself:
The Revolt of the Elite
of the United Church of
Christ
Peter
Singleton
*
Return to Chivalry:
How
Contemporary Men Can Recover the Dignity of Living for a Higher Purpose (book)
*
Some Highly
Impolitic Thoughts on Cultural Decay, Peasantry,
and the
Mexican Diaspora
Mark
Wegierski
*
Planet-Wide
Cultural Struggles Over Definitions of Freedom, Order, and Security Will
Determine the Shape of the Future
* Drugged
Reality
* The
Emergence of Media: Humanity’s Endgame
* Space
Exploration, Technology, and the Possible Futures of Humanity
* Transgressive
Technologies: Does a Posthuman Dystopia Await Us?
*
Some Notes on East
Asian Cosmology, Society, and Economy
*
Down with the
Therapeutic Left and the Managerial Right
* Two
Brief Essays on Politics, the Economy, and Western Culture
* Three
Short Essays on Taste and Technology
Faith
and Art
John R. Harris
*
A
Body Without Breath:
How Right and Left Have Both Stifled Moral Reason Within the Christian Faith
(book)
*
On Eternity and
Moral Reason:
Why Clocks Keep Ticking in Heaven
* Post-Literacy,
Biblicism, and the Death of Christianity: Big
Party in the Wading Pool
Gary Inbinder
*
Cosmic Dualism,
Moral Freedom, Teleology, and Natural Rights
Kim Paffenroth
* Christian
Virtues in Star Trek
(TOS)
Literary Criticism
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
*
The
Jargon of Mock Ethnicity:
Multiculturalism and Diversity as
Virtual Thinking
*
The
Jargon of Mock Ethnicity: Multiculturalism and
Diversity as Virtual Thinking
Jonathan Chaves
*
Kicking
the Stone and Viewing the Icon: Realist Epistemology Between
Heaven and Earth
*
Judges of
the Past
John R. Harris
*
How
Never to Write a "Scholarly Article": On Falling Afoul of
Academic Bigotry
Gary
Inbinder
*
Deconstructing
Arthur
Steve
Kogan
*
A
Sampling of Pronouncements from Our Cultural Elites
Paul
Sonnino
*
A Young
Person's Guide to Postmodernism: Four Polemical Book Reviews
Literary
Reminiscence
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
*
“I,
Martian”:
The Autoscopy of
a Science Fiction Addict
Mark Notzon
*
And Deliver Us from
English
Allan
Shields
*
William
James Visits Yosemite in 1898
*
Itinerary
and Chronology of William James’s California
Trip (August 1898)
Peter
T. Singleton
*
The Dusty,
Dog-Eared Book: Space
Well Wasted
Michael
Sugrue
*
“I
Refute It Thus”: History, Politics and Education
John
D. Wright
*
To
the Prophets: An Essay on Romanticism
Literary Studies
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
*
Dr.
Paterson Visits the Library While the Cool People Wiki and Blog
Gianna DiRoberti
*
Nihilist’s
Progress:
Nihilist’s Progress: From Marx to Feminism to Misogyny
John R. Harris
*
Literacy’s
Mystic Moon: The Flow and Ebb
of
the Sublime Through the English Classics
* Realist
Fiction and the Femina Immolata: Comparative Literature on Trial
* Facilis
Descensus
Averno
, Part I
:
A
Diffusely Comparative Study of Romantic Illusion
and Social Dissolution
*
Facilis
Descensus Averno,
Part II: A Diffusely Comparative Study of Romantic Illusion and Social
Dissolution
*
The
False Conservatism of the Cynic's Utopia: Kant, Machiavelli,
and Truthfulness
Michael
Sugrue
*
Measure, for Measure: The Bible Contra Puritanical
Christianity
Sean
Trainor
* A
Kinship Forgotten, A Rebellion Overlooked: Evangelical
Influences on English Romanticism (Part II)
* A
Kinship Forgotten, A Rebellion Overlooked:
Evangelical Influences on English Romanticism (I)
Literature
in
the Classroom
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
*
The
Vanishing Cultivated Girl and her Replacement:
From
Reading
Novels
to Talking Trash on Campus
*
Thinking
is Hard: How a Damaged Literacy Hinders Students from Coming to Grips with Ideas
*
Three
Essays for Students: On Topics Various and Sundry and
Illustrative of Problems Faced by Beginning Writers
*
Literature
and Literacy: The
Decline of Reading and the Stultification of Student Prose
*
Pessimism
au Pied de la Lettre:
Ideological Illiteracy and the Vertical Invasion of the Barbarians
Mary
Grabar
*
Academentia:
Making History
*
Academentia:
Terror in the Tower
Kelly
Ann Hampton
*
No
"Middle" in Middle America, No
Aristotle in the Academy
John
R. Harris
*
Medea’s Stepsisters: The
Toxic Alchemy of Feminism,
Self-Esteem, Ignorance,
and Youth
*
Foreign
Language and the Enemies
of Literacy: An Addendum
*
The
Intimate Message of Foreign Language: One Small Curricular Step Toward Restoring
Reason
*
The
Post-Literate Student and the Anti-Literate Academy: A
Bad Match at a Crucial Moment
*
Who
Needs Enemies? The Peculiar Struggle of
Literary Studies at Christian-Affiliated Colleges
Peter
Singleton
* Socratic
Method in Comp 101: Wringing Simple Truths from Complex Essays
*
Socratic
Method in Comp 101: Wringing Simple Truths from Complex Essays
Studies
in Pop Culture
Kelly A. Hampton
*
A
Generation X-er Declines to Defend Contemporary Music
*
"Rings"
on the Screen: Peter Jackson’s Valiant Defense
of Moral Coherence
John R. Harris
* A
Synthetic Meditation on Baseball, Racism, Closed Systems, and Spiritual
Rigor Mortis
Jim Stebinger
* Just
What Did Robin Hood
Really DO for the Poor?
Mark
Wegierski
*
War
on a Rainy Afternoon: Boardgames and Myth-Making
*
Star
Trek: Cultural Vector and Hollywood
Cash Cow
*
Dark
Futures in Gaming: Some Further Explorations
*
A Dark Turn in the Pop-Culture: “Bleak
Future” and Occult-Horror Subgenres in Science Fiction,
Fantasy, and Gaming
*
Traditionalist
Themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy
* Science
Fiction, Pop-Culture, and the World-Historical Crisis
Parody
and Satire
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
*
College
Professors Seek to Rediscover, Redefine, and Revivify Goals of Higher Education
* Internal
Bickering Nixes Establishment of Private
Neo-Conservative
Liberal
Arts
College
David
Z. Crookes
* “OLD
KING COLE”: article abstract
Rosalinda
Nava
* iBrain:
The Future of Mind Power
Short
Stories from Praesidium
The
Ivory Tower Viewed from Within
Ivor
Davies
Next
Door Burned Ucalegon
Window
Without a View
Fish
in a Barrel
Third
Degree
The
Prize for the Race
The
Ghost of Caesar’s Wife
El
Día de Hoy
Spontaneous
Overflow
Magic
Realism
J.
S. Moseby
Erebos
Laestrygonia
Invitation
to Opposing Voyages
Continental
Shelf
Fables
& Parables
Peter
Singleton
Epimenidean
Vignettes
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