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Faērie and conversion through Wonder | Hiraeth for heaven
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Adventures in Welsh Medieval Literature and Lit Theory! Faērie and conversion through Wonder. August 3, 2015. July 31, 2015. When I was in first and second grade, I hated reading. I found learning frustrating, and I struggled through the mundane morality tales I was given for homework. It wasn’t that I didn’t like stories–I adored it when my parents read. The Chronicles of Narnia. Aloud to me–but for some reason I wasn’t excelling. Then third grade came, though, and something shifted. The Secrets of Droon.
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July | 2015 | Hiraeth for heaven
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Adventures in Welsh Medieval Literature and Lit Theory! Tolkien and Girard on desire. July 30, 2015. July 31, 2015. Galadriel’s Mirror, by Alan Lee. In its defense. In fact, I initially began applying their theories to the Four Branches of the Mabinogi as opposites on the spectrum of Christian opinions of myth: Girard on the side of ‘myth as lies’ and Tolkien on the side of ‘myth as truth.’. Violence and the Sacred. A diagram of Girard’s Mimetic Theory. Lord of the Rings. Evidently, Tolkien saw the same ...
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Tolkien and Girard on desire | Hiraeth for heaven
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Adventures in Welsh Medieval Literature and Lit Theory! Tolkien and Girard on desire. July 30, 2015. July 31, 2015. Galadriel’s Mirror, by Alan Lee. In its defense. In fact, I initially began applying their theories to the Four Branches of the Mabinogi as opposites on the spectrum of Christian opinions of myth: Girard on the side of ‘myth as lies’ and Tolkien on the side of ‘myth as truth.’. Violence and the Sacred. A diagram of Girard’s Mimetic Theory. Lord of the Rings. Evidently, Tolkien saw the same ...
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May | 2015 | Hiraeth for heaven
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Adventures in Welsh Medieval Literature and Lit Theory! Better than I’d planned. May 26, 2015. Written while in a Manchester hostel waiting to come home, not uploaded due to poor internet connection, and then jet lag and business). Well, friends, I’m afraid that this will have to be my final post about my Welsh semester. It’s been a wild four months, and now I’m finally going home. So, if I knew all of this before coming to Wales, why on earth would I subject myself to it? So, yes, these four months have...
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August | 2015 | Hiraeth for heaven
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Adventures in Welsh Medieval Literature and Lit Theory! Gwydion fab Dôn: hero and villain. August 19, 2015. August 19, 2015. 8220;It is not the trappings that make the prince,” he said gently, “nor, indeed, the sword that makes the warrior.”– Gwydion (. The Book of Three. Prince Gwydion, the legendary war leader of the Sons of Don, is the kind and wise father-figure of young Taran in Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain Chronicles. So imagine my horror when I discovered the original Gwydion of the medieval Welsh ta...
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On the rocky road to Dublin | Hiraeth for heaven
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Adventures in Welsh Medieval Literature and Lit Theory! On the rocky road to Dublin. April 27, 2015. April 28, 2015. So, I suppose it’s only natural that when I was deciding how I should spend my 3 week Spring Break that I was drawn to the capitol of Irish folk music: Dublin. That’s right, it is (by and large), difficult to find good, traditional, fiddles-and-whistles Irish music in Dublin. Here’s a video of a few of the songs that the musicians played on the tour. Treasures lost and found →. You are com...
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Better than I’d planned | Hiraeth for heaven
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Adventures in Welsh Medieval Literature and Lit Theory! Better than I’d planned. May 26, 2015. Written while in a Manchester hostel waiting to come home, not uploaded due to poor internet connection, and then jet lag and business). Well, friends, I’m afraid that this will have to be my final post about my Welsh semester. It’s been a wild four months, and now I’m finally going home. So, if I knew all of this before coming to Wales, why on earth would I subject myself to it? So, yes, these four months have...
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March | 2015 | Hiraeth for heaven
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Adventures in Welsh Medieval Literature and Lit Theory! Anatomy of a Twmpath. March 13, 2015. Twmpaths can be intimidating at first! Dancing is really exhausting, so constant hydration is key! This is Bob, he is a very knowledgable gentleman who is our new best friend. In Caerdydd for Saint David’s Day. March 4, 2015. March 4, 2015. So the program took all of us down to Cardiff–the capitol of Wales–for Wales’s favorite holiday. Typically enthusiastic Welsh rugby fans. So you can, perhaps, understand why ...
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I guess I’ll start with the beginning | Hiraeth for heaven
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Adventures in Welsh Medieval Literature and Lit Theory! I guess I’ll start with the beginning. April 13, 2014. August 10, 2015. When I brought these ideas to my mentor, the illustrious Dr. Curtis Gruenler, he commented on how similar they were to C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien’s views on the relation of myth to the Gospel. During Dr. Gruenler’s Tolkien and Medieval Literature course, I learned how: I was introduced to. Explained it all perfectly through Tolkien’s discussions of sub-creation and c...
