“Thoughts that Wound from Behind:” Literary Allusions as Pedagogical Opportunities

Plugging away at your Humane Letters orals preparations, students?

Trinity School at River Ridge faculty member, Mr. Matt Axvig, shares his thoughts on how to bring different texts together to draw a new kind of meaning from them in the latest from Veritas Journal.

“Thoughts that Wound from Behind:” Literary Allusions as Pedagogical Opportunities

by Matt Axvig One value of reading truly great works of literature, works that have stood the test of time for decades or even centuries, is the opportunity such reading affords for exploring the tradition that has since built up around them. Any such truly great work – the Iliad, the Aeneid, Para…