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Rubrics
of
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.
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.
Art
and Music
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
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Confessions
of a Symphomaniac: Of Luck, Music, and the Training of the Soul
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The
"New" Berlioz: Musical High Romanticism in an Age of Technical and
Ideological Correctness
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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
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Five-Finger
Exercise for the Hairy Paw: How Music Might Rehabilitate Literacy
Gary
Inbinder
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Fashion
Art and the Moral Imagination
Allan
Shields
*
Erich
Wolfgang Korngold's Next Career
Mark
Wegierski
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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
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The
Anthropological and Psychological Origins of
Political Correctness… with Emphasis on Howard
Schwartz’s The Revolt of the Primitive
John
R. Harris
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Freedom
Grows on Trees: A Eudemonist Economics (I)
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A Taxonomy of North American Society’s Narratives of Catastrophe and
Dissolution
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The
Narcissus Narcosis:
A Platonic Dialogue on the Plight of Culture in Contemporary Society
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The
Aesthetic Crisis of Post-Literacy: How Lack of Finesse
Feeds Moral Collapse
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Daggerpoints
and Loggerheads: Intellectualism
and the Decline of the West (Part III)
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Daggerpoints
and Loggerheads: The Twentieth Century’s
Fatal Division into
Ideological
Camps (Part II)
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Daggerpoints
and Loggerheads: A Sad Time’s Taste
for Perverse Oppositions (Part I)
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Toward
Anthroponomy: How Western Culture
Has Become Its Own Worst Enemy
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Semper
Inutile:
In Praise of the Useless
Howard S. Schwartz
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Religion Against Itself:
The Revolt of the Elite
of the United Church
of
Christ
Peter
Singleton
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Return
to Chivalry:
How
Contemporary Men Can Recover the Dignity of Living for a Higher Purpose (book)
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Some Highly
Impolitic Thoughts on Cultural Decay, Peasantry,
and the
Mexican Diaspora
Mark
Wegierski
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The
Emergence of Media: Humanity’s Endgame
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Space
Exploration, Technology, and the Possible Futures of Humanity
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Transgressive
Technologies: Does a Posthuman Dystopia Await Us?
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Some
Notes on East Asian Cosmology, Society, and Economy
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Down
with the Therapeutic Left and the Managerial Right
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Two Brief Essays
on Politics, the Economy, and Western Culture
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Three Short
Essays on Taste and Technology
Faith
and Art
John
R. Harris
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A
Body Without Breath: How Right and Left Have Both Stifled Moral Reason Within
the Christian Faith (book)
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On
Eternity and Moral Reason:
Why Clocks Keep Ticking in Heaven
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Post-Literacy,
Biblicism, and the Death of Christianity: Big
Party in the Wading Pool
Gary
Inbinder
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Cosmic
Dualism, Moral Freedom, Teleology, and Natural Rights
Kim Paffenroth
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Christian
Virtues
in Star Trek
(TOS)
Literary
Criticism
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
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The
Jargon
of Mock Ethnicity:
Multiculturalism
and Diversity as Virtual Thinking
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The
Jargon of Mock Ethnicity: Multiculturalism and
Diversity as Virtual Thinking
Jonathan Chaves
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Kicking
the
Stone
and Viewing the
Icon:
Realist Epistemology Between
Heaven and Earth
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Judges of
the Past
John
R. Harris
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How
Never to Write a "Scholarly Article": On Falling Afoul of
Academic Bigotry
Gary
Inbinder
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Deconstructing
Arthur
Steve
Kogan
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A
Sampling of Pronouncements from Our Cultural Elites
Paul
Sonnino
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A
Young Person's Guide to Postmodernism: Four Polemical Book Reviews
Literary
Reminiscence
Thomas F. Bertonneau
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“I,
Martian”:
The Autoscopy of a
Science Fiction Addict
Mark
Notzon
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And
Deliver Us from English
Allan
Shields
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William
James Visits Yosemite in 1898
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Itinerary
and Chronology of William James’s California
Trip (August 1898)
Peter
T. Singleton
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The
Dusty, Dog-Eared Book: Space
Well Wasted
John
D. Wright
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To the
Prophets: An Essay on Romanticism
Literary Studies
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
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Dr.
Paterson
Visits the Library While the Cool People
Wiki and Blog
Gianna
DiRoberti
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Nihilist’s
Progress:
Nihilist’s Progress:
From Marx to Feminism to Misogyny
John R. Harris
* Realist Fiction and the
Femina Immolata: Comparative Literature on Trial
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Facilis
Descensus
Averno
, Part I
:
A
Diffusely Comparative Study of Romantic Illusion
and Social Dissolution
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Facilis
Descensus Averno,
Part II: A Diffusely Comparative Study of Romantic Illusion and Social
Dissolution
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The
False Conservatism of the Cynic's Utopia: Kant, Machiavelli,
and Truthfulness
Gary
Inbinder
Literature
in
the Classroom
Thomas
F. Bertonneau
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Thinking
is Hard:
How a Damaged Literacy Hinders Students
from Coming to Grips with Ideas
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Three
Essays for Students: On Topics Various and Sundry and
Illustrative of Problems Faced by Beginning Writers
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Literature
and Literacy: The Decline of Reading and the Stultification of Student Prose
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Pessimism
au Pied de la Lettre:
Ideological Illiteracy and the Vertical Invasion of the Barbarians
Mary
Grabar
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Academentia:
Making History
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Academentia:
Terror in the Tower
Kelly
Ann Hampton
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No
"Middle" in Middle America, No
Aristotle in the Academy
John
R. Harris
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Orality
and Literacy Revisited: Beleaguered Allies Against the Technical Onslaught of
the Visual
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Foreign
Language and the Enemies
of Literacy: An Addendum
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The
Intimate Message of Foreign Language: One Small Curricular Step Toward Restoring
Reason
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The
Post-Literate Student and the Anti-Literate Academy: A
Bad Match at a Crucial Moment
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Who Needs
Enemies? The Peculiar Struggle of
Literary Studies at Christian-Affiliated Colleges
Peter
Singleton
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Socratic
Method in Comp 101: Wringing Simple Truths from Complex Essays
Studies in Pop
Culture
Kelly A. Hampton
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A Generation X-er
Declines to Defend Contemporary Music
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"Rings"
on the Screen: Peter Jackson’s Valiant Defense
of Moral Coherence
John R. Harris
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A
Synthetic Meditation on Baseball, Racism,
Closed Systems, and Spiritual
Rigor Mortis
Jim
Stebinger
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Just
What Did Robin Hood
Really DO for the Poor?
Mark
Wegierski
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War
on a Rainy Afternoon: Boardgames and Myth-Making
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Star
Trek: Cultural Vector and Hollywood Cash Cow
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Dark
Futures in Gaming: Some Further Explorations
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A
Dark Turn in the Pop-Culture: “Bleak Future” and Occult-Horror Subgenres in
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Gaming
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Traditionalist
Themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Science
Fiction, Pop-Culture, and the World-Historical Crisis
Short
Stories
from
Praesidium
Ivor
Davies
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
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