Today we broached the world of Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke. The focus was on the way the English language became transformed during this period with the direct impact of the horrors of the First World War. The jingoistic idealism of Rupert Brooke was kicked out by the hard hitting, grating, consonantal…
Category: 20thEXP
Gerard Manley Hopkins as 20th Century Poet.
Today we have the extraordinary good fortune for an excuse to be immersed in the creative, imaginative world of Gerard Manley Hopkins. His presence at the beginning of the 20th Century (his work was first published in 1918) gives us a context against which to experience some of the tragic directions in which the 20th…
Event and Experiment: The 20th Century!
Thank you all for your keen participation today. It was a good start to an amazingly interesting subject. Today we began exploring the tumultuous 20th Century, the century of violence beyond all human comprehension and the century of discovery of both technology and of the heights and depths of the human spirit. From Einstein to…
Love & Intellect: Recipe for Peace
Come and be stimulated by presentations and discussions on the mysticism of Rumi, St John of the Cross, Meister Eckhart, Hadewijch of Antwerp and others in this exciting interfaith presentation by the Al Ghazzali Centre, ACU and ACU’s SLA (The Sacred in Literature and the Arts Group). These mystical writers have a vitally important message for…
Highlights from first cull of Twentieth Century Literature Blogs!
What a totally amazing collection of Blogs from students studying 20th Century Literature at ACU. There is such depth and variety in this swag of great entries. Congratulations to all of you – and to those who didn’t quite make this list. This is just to give you an idea of the riches I have…
