I have tried to demonstrate how these relate to such major works as L’Immoraliste (1902) or Les Faux-monnayeurs (1925). One of my main aims in these lectures is to direct readers towards some of Gide’s shorter works, which are now less widely read, but are arguably some of his most fascinating. OverviewĪlthough the lectures are adapted to the specific needs of students at Oxford University, they provide a broad overview of Gide’s career, a discussion of some of the major themes and problems of his work, and a detailed discussion of extracts from some of his most widely read works. This lecture series was previously delivered by Professor Toby Garfitt of Magdalen College, until his retirement as a college tutor, and the text of my lectures owes a considerable debt to his work. I have made them available here in the hope that they will continue to be of use to more students and readers. I delivered the lectures at Oxford University in 20, mainly for undergraduate students studying French literature in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. This is a series of four lectures on the works and career of the author André Gide (1869–1951).
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They may begin with a virtuous affection, but if discretion be lacking, frivolity will creep in, and then sensuality, till their love becomes carnal: even in spiritual love there is a danger if people are not on the watch, although it is not so easy to be deluded therein, inasmuch as the very purity and transparency of spiritual affection show Satan’s stains more promptly. We must be on our guard not to be deceived in making friendships, especially between persons of the opposite sexes, for not unfrequently Satan deludes those who love one another. TAKE notice, my child, that the honey of Heraclyum, which is so poisonous, altogether resembles that which is wholesome, and there is great danger of mistaking one for the other, or of mixing them, for the virtue of one would not counteract the harmfulness of the other. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Correy Webb PART 3 – CHAPTER XX. Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | RSS | More Part 3 – Chapter 20 of the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:41 - 2.6MB) | Embed Ray swears he won't take Miguel down with him. Miguel swears he'll save Ray from himself. To catch a killer, there isn’t a rule Ray won’t break or a risk he won’t take. but it ignites again with just one touch. The spark between them has almost gone cold. When the retired SWAT medic who saved his life years ago barges into his investigation, Ray can’t resist the chance to settle old debts. He’s spent his career working himself to the bone, but he can’t escape his reputation as a loose cannon. He’s done his best to keep his family away from the life that almost destroyed him, but when his nephew is accused of arson and murder, he’ll do whatever it takes to prove his innocence… even if that means going head-to-head with the most stubborn detective in the city. But the ghosts of his past are never far away. It took a terrible tragedy for him to break from one of the city’s toughest gangs. The romantic storyline with Maddie’s best friend, Fiorden Brekken, is mined for did-he-or-didn’t-he betrayal tension readers may wish more had come from her attraction to Taya. The twists are plentiful, though some are predictable. While doing her best to conceal the happenings (and just how much danger everyone is in) so as to keep the diplomacy on track, Maddie teams up with a shifting roster of allies to try to discover who is responsible for the opening door, whom she can trust, and what everyone’s true motives are. Maddie wants nothing more than to be her uncle’s successor, but her wish comes too quickly when he’s debilitated during a chaotic night that results in Solaria’s seal being cracked. Solaria used to participate prior to the war that led to the door to Solaria’s being sealed shut-but with some of the shape-shifting Solarians still loose. Maddie Morrow is one of the few humans in the know about Earth’s being one of the Adjacent Realms her uncle is the Innkeeper at the crossroads between them and neutral host of the yearly diplomatic summit between the magical realms of Byrn and Fiordenkill. A teen is thrust into a leadership role when conspiracies are afoot at the multiverse’s inn. With that foundation, Douglass then taught himself to read and write. Douglass credits Hugh’s wife Sophia with first teaching him the alphabet. However, at the age of six, he was moved away from her to live and work on the Wye House plantation in Maryland.įrom there, Douglass was “given” to Lucretia Auld, whose husband, Thomas, sent him to work with his brother Hugh in Baltimore. His full name at birth was “Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey.”Īfter he was separated from his mother as an infant, Douglass lived for a time with his maternal grandmother, Betty Bailey. He was actually born Frederick Bailey (his mother’s name), and took the name Douglass only after he escaped. His mother was an enslaved Black women and his father was white and of European descent. Douglass himself was never sure of his exact birth date. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in or around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. The character of Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked veteran of World War I, also grapples with isolation and mental illness as he struggles to find a place for himself in a society that does not fully understand or support him. Clarissa's husband, Richard Dalloway, is a successful politician who is often away from home, leaving Clarissa to feel lonely and disconnected from her spouse. Clarissa is a high society hostess who is expected to adhere to certain societal norms and roles, and the novel explores the ways in which she struggles with these expectations and the pressure they put on her.Īnother major theme in the novel is the idea of isolation and how it can affect an individual's mental and emotional well-being. One of the main themes of Mrs Dalloway is the idea of identity and how it is shaped by social expectations and conventions. The novel is often praised for its experimental narrative structure, as it uses a stream-of-consciousness technique to delve into the inner thoughts and feelings of its characters. Mrs Dalloway is a novel written by Virginia Woolf that follows the life of its titular character, Clarissa Dalloway, on a single day in London in 1923. In 1966, he began teaching English in the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, located in the Appalachian Mountains of northeastern Georgia. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Cornell University and a second Master's from Johns Hopkins University. His maternal grandmother, Margaret Pollard Smith, was an associate professor of English at Vassar College and his father was a famous landscape architect, named Brooks Edward Wigginton. His mother, Lucy Freelove Smith Wigginton, died eleven days later of "pneunomia due to acute pulmonary edema," according to her death certificate. He was convicted of child molestation in 1992.īrooks Eliot Wigginton was born in West Virginia on November 9, 1942. In 1986 he was named "Georgia Teacher of the Year" and in 1989 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. These were based on articles by high school students from Rabun County, Georgia. He was most widely known for developing the Foxfire Project, a writing project that led to a magazine and the series of best-selling Foxfire books, twelve volumes in all. JSTOR ( January 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Įliot Wigginton (born Brooks Eliot Wigginton on November 9, 1942) is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator.Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. It was on the strength of arguments such as Hamilton’s that the system in the United States came to be known as “the Administration” as opposed to other eligible nomenclatures. Goodwin, therefore, explored how what Alexander Hamilton identified in Federalist Papers 68-72 as the soul of government-namely, coherent, stable, energetic administration of the laws under a single command-fared in the face of political realities. Indeed, it is quite probable that Lincoln was acutely aware, as he named Chase, Seward, Stanton, and Blair to his cabinet (and implicitly included Sumner), that he was relying on people each of whom considered himself worthier to be president than Lincoln. The analysis bore out the intended implication of the title of the book, namely, that Lincoln’s cabinet consisted of rivals, not among themselves, but to Lincoln himself. Goodwin carefully analyzed Lincoln’s cabinet to unfold the extent to which the commander-in-chief effectively determined the shape of political administration or merely coordinated competing centers of political administration. When in 2005 Doris Kearns Goodwin published Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, a standard was established for the analysis of the dynamics of political administration in the United States. My sister, Enola, and I used to run shoeless in the summers until the pavement got so hot our toes sank into the tar. On the north shore few things are more essential than hard feet. I've been delinquent in breaking in my calluses this year and my feet hurt where stones chew at them. I walk toward the wooden stairs that sprawl down the cliff and lean into the sand. But we librarians are known for being resourceful. My father's apathy left me to inherit an unfixable problem, one too costly for a librarian in Napawset. Measures that should have been taken-bulkheads, terracing-weren't. The Long Island Sound is peppered with the remains of homes and lifetimes, all ground to sand in its greedy maw. The place where I've spent my entire life is unlikely to survive the fall storm season. Last night's storm tore land and churned water, littering the beach with bottles, seaweed, and horseshoe crab carapaces. Perched on the bluff's edge, the house is in danger. not distinguishable”), and also of the evacuation and burning of Richmond in 1865. Besides describing “daily scenes of pathos,” Pember gives a horrifying account of the prisoner exchange of November 1864 (“living and dead. To follow her from day one, when she is greeted with “ill-repressed disgust” that “one of them had come,” and she, herself, “could only understand that the position was one which dove-tailed the offices of housekeeper and cook” to the day when she as exerts control over the hospital’s “medicinal whiskey barrel” is to watch a woman find herself. Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital is her vivid recounting of hospital life and of her tribulations (and personal growth) as a female administrator. Phoebe Yates Pember served as a matron in the Confederate Chimborazo military hospital in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, overseeing a dietary kitchen serving meals to 300 or more wounded soldiers daily. |
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