No place left onstage for hope?
James Matthew Wilson explores the tragic vision of the world in Shakespeare’s plays, revealing the often-overlooked and somewhat hidden hints of grace and of Christ that point to a more hopeful view of the cosmos. (59 minutes)
Poetry and the shaping of virtue
Glenn C. Arbery discusses the Vanderbilt Agrarians, poetry, and the moral imagination and the shaping of virtue. (32 minutes)
The unmasking of self-fictions
Glenn Arbery describes what the genre of tragedy reveals about human experience and how it does this work of revelation. (63 minutes)