Being critical in the sense of articulating a negative assessment or deconstructing a work, like a piece of writing, is easy. It is easy to point out the absences, the flaws and the failings of a work. Sometimes they need…
Transposition is very much what poetry and all literary art is about. To hear snatches from the huge unknowable symphony of experience, to catch them and transpose them to a key that resonates with our understanding, so that at some…
If you have been about Transpositions for any length of time, you’ll have noticed that each of us are interested in the way faith is lived out. Particularly, we focus on the relationship between artistic and creative expressions. We appreciate…
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. – Ansel Adams
Review of Part III: Writer (chapters 19-21). Alan Jacobs, “The Chronicles of Narnia,” 265-280; Peter J. Schakel, “Til We Have Faces,” 281-293; Malcolm Guite, “Poet,” 294-310 from Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis, Robert MacSwain and Michael Ward, Editors., Cambridge:…
This coming week will see Transpositions devote its posts to the review of The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis, edited by Robert MacSwain and Michael Ward. Part of the Cambridge Companions to Religion series, this companion has twenty-one wide…
I’m tired. Actually, I’m exhausted: physically, emotionally, mentally. I’m even a little tired spiritually. It has been a rough few months. I’m still grieving the loss of my grandmother. I’m definitely in the hard yards phase of the second year…
This week Jenn Craft and Cole Matson have explored, in a thoughtful way, the significance of place in the arts. Today’s post will not be near as erudite nor, in the end, as profound. But, I do want to think…
Over the last couple of months we’ve occasionally shared information about retreats or summer schools that might be of interest in 2011, like this one in Devon and this one in Vancouver. David O. Taylor (his edited collection For the…