2009 Issue
Number 18, Spring 2009
Editorial Committee
- Ms. Lyndall Nairn, Chair
- Dr. Scott Amos
- Dr. Will Briggs
- Dr. Annette Evans
- Dr. Delane Karalow
- Ms. Caitlin Flathers, Student Representative
The Agora annually presents writings by Lynchburg College students and includes essays written by students from other institutions that are members of the Association of Core Texts and Courses (ACTC). Lynchburg College contributors participate in the Lynchburg College Symposium Readings (LCSR) program, which integrates ideas from classical selections with contemporary ideas and issues. LCSR classes encourage students to think deeply about current issues and to become sensitive to the interdisciplinary influence of classical ideas. Contributors from other ACTC colleges and universities participate in similar "great books" programs.
Table of Contents
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| Editorial: In This Issue… | Lyndall Nairn |
| Three Translations of Beowulf: Interpretation or Misrepresentation of Meaning | Paul Tierney |
| Feminist Literary Criticism and Lysistrata | Katie Wilcox |
| Out of Hyacinth and Apple-Boughs: Sappho’s Aphrodite Myth and the Bisexual Anima | Jessica Quinlan |
| The Garden as Original Home: Nostalgia in “Paradise Lost” | Elizabeth Healy |
| The Crisis of Trust in Hamlet | Michael Colebrook |
| Jefferson and King: Changes for America | James Young |
| The Sexually Awkward and Aloof Man Known as Mr. Collins | Sean Udell |
| “Ah humanity!”: Bartleby’s Challenge to the Lawyer | Stephen Marowitz |
| Jim Burden and Jake Barnes: As Similar as Their Initials | Ashley Ferry |
| Christianity without Ressentiment: Nietzsche’s Jesus, Weak Theology, and the Possibility for a New Christian Ethics | Alan Reynolds |
| The Rhetoric of Music in Dante’s Purgatorio | Mary Patricia Jones |
| Everlasting Tension: A Comparison of Themes between John Keats and Hellenistic Art | Kate Kauffman |
| A Wanderer's Eyes | Samantha Bryant |
Personal Responses Written in Senior Symposium
| Irrationality and Intellect | Clyde Harkrader |
| Considering the Right and Necessity of Civil Disobedience | Shane Durie |