The Epiphany and Poetry
The Feast of the Epiphany is a day that commemorates, among Western Christians, the visit of royal magi to the baby Jesus and, among…
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‘The Gods are Here, Invisible, Mischievous, and Meddling’: Vladimir Nabokov and the Presence of God in John 19
‘I used to be a little conjuror when I was a boy. I loved doing simple tricks—turning water into wine, that kind of thing;…
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Time and Faith within the Urban and the Rural, Part 2
After last week looking at the importance of the city in T. S. Eliot’s poetry, we now turn to the rural context. Eliot’s final…
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Time and Faith within the Urban and the Rural, Part 1
Over the past year, my transition from the car horns and sirens of Philadelphia to the call of seagulls in St Andrews has put…
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Singing with Madam Jazz: A Conversation with Micheal O’Siadhail
In one of his many essays on Milton, Northrop Frye defines the epic poem as a ‘special kind’ of narrative poem that does more…
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When Silence Is the Answer: Lewis’s Till We Have Faces and an Ancient Answer to the Problem of Evil
‘My God why have you forsaken me? To bend means to lie. If there is a god, he must ask me forgiveness’. This is…
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Introducing Rebekah Lamb: ITIA’s Newest Lecturer
Transpositions is pleased to welcome Rebekah Lamb as Lecturer in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. We recently had the opportunity to chat…
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Bird by Bird: Anne Lamott’s Advice in the Fiction of Lewis and Tolkien
What makes a good writer? Is it a firm grasp of language? A creative mind? A broad literary taste? A thorough education? Is it…
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‘Now cracks a noble heart’: Hamlet and Political Hope
When I was in college, I was involved in a decent production of Hamlet. To make it short enough for our undergraduate attention spans,…
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