Hue WoodsonLate Medieval Aesthetics, Sacraments, and the Religious Experience as “Touching the Passion” (A…Donna L. Sadler’s Touching the Passion (2018) begins by asserting that, in the late medieval period, “the divisions between the five senses…Apr 15, 2020Apr 15, 2020
Hue WoodsonPluralism and Ecumenism: The Development of Pluralistic Theology and Ecumenical Ecclesiology in…In order to properly explore the dynamics of religious/confessional/interdenominational coexistence over the course of the nineteenth…Mar 19, 2020Mar 19, 2020
Hue WoodsonA Play of Forces: Structure, Meaning, and the Hermeneutic Significance of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The…When reading Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” (1844), the reader must first confront Poe’s use of the term “purloined,” or…Mar 19, 2020Mar 19, 2020
Hue WoodsonThe Bull in the China Shop: How Hitchcock and Welles Use the Blonde Femme Fatale as the Symptom of…As filmmaking contemporaries, the careers of Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) and Orson Welles (1915–1985) could not have begun more…Mar 18, 2020Mar 18, 2020
Hue WoodsonOn William Blake’s “Milton” and the AestheticComposed roughly from 1804 to 1818, Milton: A Poem were printed in four variants: three dated to 1811 and one dated to 1818 — scholarship…Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020
Hue WoodsoninLotus FruitThe Aesthetics of “Innocence” and “Experience”: On Milton, Blake, Kant, and the Books of Genesis…Songs of Innocence (1789) originally appeared in truncated form as three “songs” as early as 1785, in an unfinished collection entitled An…Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020
Hue WoodsonThe Aesthetics of William Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1790)The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was chiefly composed in 1790, though all known variants of the text appear in 1794, 1795, 1818, and 1827…Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020
Hue WoodsoninLotus FruitMiltonian Visualizations in William Blake’s “Song of Innocence” (1789)In the above, the 1789 edition of Songs of Innocence, before it was subsumed into the Songs of Innocence and of Experience of 1795…Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020
Hue WoodsoninLotus FruitWilliam Blake’s Philosophy of AestheticsAs an eighteenth-century English poet and visual artist, William Blake (1757–1827) currently occupies a much more important space now in…Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020