Blog Agenda for 2024-26:

 

  • Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars [Tracking Sections on Language, Signs, and the Literary, etc. and placing within wider context of Aquinas' Work and Thought]

 

  • 20th-C. Classics in Literary Criticism (prior to the "Postmodern" turn, ca. 1968)
    • A Selection: 
      • Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature.
      • Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination.
      • Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations.
      • Brooks, Cleanth. The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry.

 

  • Plato's Republic vs. Laws [Contemplation on Age and "Wisdom" vs. Youth and "Vision"]

 

  • What does it mean to be a "man of letters"?: The Life of Johnson (Unabridged)

 

  • The Quijote (w/ the Original Castillian)

 

  • Virgil's Aeneid and the Thematic Virtue of Pietas

 

  • Gracian's "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" (read against Liguori's "Moral Theology")

 

  • Vico's The New Science [Tracking Sections on Rhetoric and Its Historico-Metaphysical Significance in relation to Jurisprudence and Natural Law]

 

  • Occasional Musings on Gueranger's "Liturgical Year" alongside the Daily Missal and Monastic Breviary, etc.

 

  • Lectio Divina engagements with Holy Writ in alignment with the liturgical calendar, w/ reference to Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen's "Divine Intimacy" (!)