作者: Patrick Hayes

In A Catholic Brain Trust: The History of the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, 1945–1965, Patrick J. Hayes chronicles the founding, development, and accomplishments of the CC …

Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would …

Of all the grave crises in Northern Ireland’s history, the events of Bloody Sunday are perhaps the most notorious. The subject of an independent inquiry that is the longest and most expensive the Bri …

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2012 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources – Miscellaneous, grade: B, University of Limerick, course: MA in Business Management, language: English, abstract: In th …

When we try to find words to express our most visceral and primary responses to literature, we are often inclined to speak of its power. But in academic contexts, that intuitive feeling for the vivid …

‘Anti-illusionism is, I suspect, only a marking of time, a phase of recuperation, in the history of the novel. The question is, what next?’ (J.M. Coetzee)Patrick Hayes argues that the significance of …

The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee tre …

New essays examining the intellectual allegiances of Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction in English today and a deeply intellectual and philosophical write …

Arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of today, J. M. Coetzee is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee’s writing is aware that the vis …

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In Plato’s Republic, Socrates spoke of an ‘ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy’ which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers h …

In Plato’s Republic, Socrates spoke of an ‘ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy’ which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers h …

With the growing urgency of questions about how to claim identity and achieve authenticity, life-writing started to acquire an unprecedented cultural importance. A range of social and economic develo …

With the growing urgency of questions about how to claim identity and achieve authenticity, life-writing started to acquire an unprecedented cultural importance. A range of social and economic develo …

In a time when the global and national economies seem to favor so few and harm so many, when the threats to the common good are so prevalent and so deep, how do people of faith think about these issu …