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a fur piece: May 2010
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Pierre Bezukhov, “Clerical Persons”, and Defamiliarization (Part 2). In my last post. One of the themes of War and Peace. Is the difference between appearance and reality.[1] He is often very cynical about the "conventional wisdom" and social conventions. Most famously, this is shown in the war sections where we see the difference between the military strategists ideas about what should happen and the what actually happens in the battle. For Pierre, brought up abroad, this soiree of Anna Pavlovna’s...
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a fur piece: May 2009
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Southern Literature Reading List. So, here is my quixotic little reading list. Should keep me busy for the next couple years. The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor. To Kill a Mockingbird. All the King's Me. N by Robert Penn Warren. A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Their Eyes Were Watching God. By Zora Neale Hurston. By Booker T. Washington. Other Voices, Other Rooms. The Violent Bear It Away. Everything That Rises Must Converge. A Death in the Family. Lanterns on the Levee. A Confederacy of Dunces.
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a fur piece: Review: The Pillar of Fire
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Review: The Pillar of Fire. The Pillar of Fire. 8220;What if all that is folly in the eyes of the Greeks, and scandal in the eyes of the Jews, is Truth? This is the question asked by psychiatrist Dr. Karl Stern (1906-1975) in the forward to his wonderful spiritual autobiography, The Pillar of Fire. The wonderful, but unfortunately currently inactive blog Ora Et Labor. See also the 2007 St. Vladimir's Seminary commencement address. By Fr Thomas Hopko. 16 November, 2009 06:55. 29 November, 2009 05:10.
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a fur piece: November 2009
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Review: The Pillar of Fire. The Pillar of Fire. 8220;What if all that is folly in the eyes of the Greeks, and scandal in the eyes of the Jews, is Truth? This is the question asked by psychiatrist Dr. Karl Stern (1906-1975) in the forward to his wonderful spiritual autobiography, The Pillar of Fire. The wonderful, but unfortunately currently inactive blog Ora Et Labor. See also the 2007 St. Vladimir's Seminary commencement address. By Fr Thomas Hopko. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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a fur piece: Review: The Soul and Barbed Wire
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Review: The Soul and Barbed Wire. In order to get to writing more here, I'm decided to start at least posting a book review now and then, particularly books related to my subject, that is, living and reading the American South. Although Russia and Alabama are somewhat far apart, geographically, there is a connection, a connection which I'll try to comment on in the near future. The Soul and Barbed Wire: An Introduction to Solzhenitsyn. By Edward E., Jr. Ericson. The Soul and Barbed Wire.
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a fur piece: September 2009
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Review: The Soul and Barbed Wire. In order to get to writing more here, I'm decided to start at least posting a book review now and then, particularly books related to my subject, that is, living and reading the American South. Although Russia and Alabama are somewhat far apart, geographically, there is a connection, a connection which I'll try to comment on in the near future. The Soul and Barbed Wire: An Introduction to Solzhenitsyn. By Edward E., Jr. Ericson. The Soul and Barbed Wire.
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a fur piece: Pierre Bezukhov, “Clerical Persons”, and Defamiliarization (Part 1)
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Pierre Bezukhov, “Clerical Persons”, and Defamiliarization (Part 1). As I wrote before, the first two times I read War and Peace. It was with the Ann Dunnigan translation, and since I am unable to read the Russian original, I was looking forward to a fresh perspective in this new translation. In their majestic, shining vestments, their long hair spread loose on them, lighted candles in their hands, performing the service with slow solemnity." [2]. This use of "clerical persons" rather the "priests" or "c...
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a fur piece: October 2008
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I have come to Alabama: a fur piece. From Light in August. I tried to read Light in August. At least twice, and Thomas Wolfe. S Look Homeward, Angel. At least twice. I'm halfway through Flannery O'Connor. S A Good Man Is Hard To Find. And have been for a long time (I have to read O'Connor slowly savoring each story- recovering from each story- one at a time). But moving to a new region seems like a good raison d'être. 1] Faulkner, William. Light in August. The Modern Library, New York, New York. Subscrib...
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a fur piece: Pierre Bezukhov, “Clerical Persons”, and Defamiliarization (Part 2)
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Pierre Bezukhov, “Clerical Persons”, and Defamiliarization (Part 2). In my last post. One of the themes of War and Peace. Is the difference between appearance and reality.[1] He is often very cynical about the "conventional wisdom" and social conventions. Most famously, this is shown in the war sections where we see the difference between the military strategists ideas about what should happen and the what actually happens in the battle. For Pierre, brought up abroad, this soiree of Anna Pavlovna’s...
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a fur piece: June 2010
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Pierre Bezukhov, “Clerical Persons”, and Defamiliarization (Part 3). In my last post. I discussed the Tolstoy’s concern for reality and how he paradoxically uses anti-realist techniques, specifically defamiliarization. I promised to ponder how this relates to Toltoy’s complicated, and tragic, relationship to organized religion. So I’d like to jump ahead a few decade to the end of the Count’s life. Aaron of Logismoi gives a good overview of his eventual excommunication. Rosemary Edmonds writes,. In every ...
