By William C. Dowling (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) “The object of this book,” writes William C. Dowling in his preface, “is to make the key concepts of Paul Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative available to readers who might have felt bewildered by the twists and turns of its argument.” The sources of puzzlement are, he notes, many. For some, … Continued
By Steven Goldsmith (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) A fascinating study of the relation be- tween the textual and the historical in apocalyptic representation in texts as di- verse as Revelation, an array of eighteenth-century biblical commentary, Percy Shelley's "Popular Songs," Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, and Mary Shelley's The Last Man.
In 1979, at age 16, Hollis Robbins found herself enrolled at John Hopkins University. Though she was there as part of a program for girls who excelled in math, she signed up for a humanities lecture class. In that day’s class, drawing upon the epic of Gilgamesh, a guest lecturer expounded on the theory of … Continued