by Evan Dwan | Apr 10, 2020 | News |
Declan Kiberd writes that the aim of Ulysses was to create a different kind of reader, one who after reading it would experience the world in a very different way. He wanted to free people from all kinds of constriction, including passive readership. Joyce hoped that...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 10, 2020 | News |
King Midas is given a second chance and relinquishes his golden-gift; Orpheus is reunited with his beloved by the gods; Prometheus is freed from bondage and able to re-join his people. Joseph Campbell tells us that the happy ending of fairy tales and myth should be...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 10, 2020 | News |
Poetry relates to language as music relates to noise, writes John Carey. In his, A little history of poetry, he tells us that poetry is language made special, so that it will be remembered and valued. It comes from a time before writing, where stories and history were...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 10, 2020 | News |
‘Education’ has the potential to take place in any situation where two or more people are meeting, that is, relating. Relationship lies at the heart of what it means to be human and hence what it means to educate. The root ‘educare’ refers to a ‘drawing out’ process...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 10, 2020 | News |
In her book, The hero and the goddess, Jean Houston writes that we live in a ‘mono’ culture – it is monotheistic (one god), monophrenic (one personality), and monocular (having one way of seeing) in our epistemology. We think everything can be known in a linear...
