Catholic Literary Theory
Catholic Literary Theory is the idea that truths about human experience and identity are inherent to art and literature, whatever its source. We can and should bring forth these truths by analysis, to help us understand and articulate the human person and destiny. This analysis, however, is not the only form of knowing - it leads back to the power and paradox of art, so we may receive more deeply its unique expression. The beauty we find liberates the soul, transports us beyond our insatiable thirst for something outside the confines of space and time, and is a participation in the creator and giver of beauty.
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Down at the Docks, by Kenneth Koch
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The Cathedral, by Auguste Rodin
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if i believe, by ee cummings
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The Lamb and The Tyger, by William Blake
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Son of Man, by René Magritte
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Concert for Anarchy, by Rebecca Horn
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Hermit Songs, by Samuel Barber and Anonymous
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The Lee Shore (Ch. 23 of Moby Dick), by Herman Melville
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Full Fathom Five, by Sylvia Plath
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A Thousand Silent Moments (Rainforest), by Anila Quayyum Agha
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Beowulf, by Anonymous
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If I Had Grown Up in a Land Where Days, by Ranier Maria Rilke
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You Are the Future, the Great Sunrise Red, by Ranier Maria Rilke
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The Lion for Real, by Allen Ginsberg
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Evening Star, by William Turner
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The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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The Hollow Men, by T. S. Eliot
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The House With the Cracked Walls, by Paul Cézanne
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States of Transmutation, by Andrea Peña
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The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
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La Clairvoyance, by René Magritte
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Should The Wide World Roll Away and Aye Workman Make Me A Dream, by Stephen Crane
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Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
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The False Mirror, by René Magritte
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To Hear an Oriole Sing, by Emily Dickinson
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The Allegory of the Cave, by Plato
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Christ and the Lamb, by Jeff Koons
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Sure On This Shining Night, by James Agee and Samuel Barber
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Lists
The following are a work in progress and necessarily incomplete; they are organized by title because they are not a cannon of authors
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To read
A Brief History of Time, Hawking
A Brief Introduction to Karl Rahner, Kilby A Canticle for Liebowitz, Miller A Coney Island of the Mind, Ferlinghetti A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway A Man for All Seasons, Bolt A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce A Separate Peace, Knowles A Room with a View, Forster A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens A Winter's Tale, Shakespeare A Wrinkle in Time, L'Engle Absalom, Absalom!, Faulkner An American Tragedy, Dreiser Anna Karenina, Tolstoy Appointment in Samarra, O'Hara Architectural Styles, Fletcher and Polley Ariel, Plath Atonement, McEwan Beowulf, trans. Heaney Black Spring, Miller Blood Wedding, Lorca Brave New World, Huxley Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut Brideshead Revisited, Waugh Bulfinch's Mythology, Bulfinch Candide, Voltaire Canterbury Tales, Chaucer Catch-22, Heller Catechism of the Catholic Church Chamber Music, Joyce Chaos, Gleick Charlotte's Web, White Cinepoems and Others, Fondane Complete Sonnets, Shakespeare Collected Short Stories of Jack London Colossus and Other Poems, Plath Confessions, Augustine Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky Crossing to Safety, Stegner Daisy Miller, James De Profundis, Wilde Death of a Salesman, Miller Dracula, Stoker Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak Dubliners, Joyce Duino Elegies, Rilke Eternity My Beloved, Sulivan Exile and the Kingdom, Camus Father Elijah, O'Brien Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Thompson Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard Frankenstein, Shelley Gasoline, Corso Gaudem et Spes God is Love (Deus Caritas Est), Benedict XVI Great Expectations, Dickens Guerrilla Warfare, Guevara Hamlet, Shakespeare Heart of Darkness, Conrad Henry V, Shakespeare Howards End, Forster Howl and Other Poems, Ginsberg Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian I Heard God Laughing, Hafiz In Cold Blood, Capote Island of the World, O'Brien Jesus of Nazareth, Benedict XVI (three books) Kaddish and Other Poems, Ginsberg King Lear, Shakespeare Leaves of Grass, Whitman Legends of King Arthur, Mallory, Green Let the Great World Spin, McCann Letter to Artists, 4/4/99, John Paul II Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke Life of Pi, Martel Little House on the Prairie, Wilder (complete series) Little Women, Alcott Lolita, Nabokov Long Live Man, Corso Longitude, Sobel Look Homeward Angel, Wolfe Lord of the Flies, Golding Lumen Gentium Macbeth, Shakespeare Manresa, Ignatius Mariette in Ecstasy, Hansen Markings, Hammarskjöld Mere Christianity, Lewis Middlesex, Eugenides Mody Dick, Melville Mother Night, Vonnegut My Ántonia, Cather Of Fathers and Fire, Wingate Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck On Human Work (Laborem Exercens), John Paul II On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering (Salvifici Doloris), John Paul II On the Development of Peoples (Populorum Progressio), Paul VI On the Relationship between Faith and Reason (Fides et Ratio), John Paul II On the Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor (Rerum Novarum), Leo XIII On the Road, Kerouac (as published and original scroll) On Social Concern (Sollicitudo Rei Socialis), John Paul II On the Trinity, Augustine One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude, Márquez Other Voices, Other Rooms, Capote Paradise Lost, Milton Pensée, Pascal Poetry of Jorge Luis Borges Poetry of Hart Crane Poetry of Stephen Crane Poetry of e. e. cummings Poetry of Emily Dickinson Poetry of John Donne Poetry of T. S. Eliot Poetry of H.D. Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins Poetry of St. John of the Cross Poetry of John Keats Poetry of Denise Levertov Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca Poetry of Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud Poetry of Rumi Poetry of Carl Sandburg Poetry of Sappho Poetry of Wallace Stephens Poetry of Paul Verlaine Poetry of W. B. Yeats Popol Vuh Pride and Prejudice, Austen Rebecca, Du Maurier Republic, Plato Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Rubáiyát, Khayyám Saint Francis of Assisi, Chesterton Six Nonlectures, Cummings Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut Songs of Innocence and Experience, Blake Swan's Way, Proust Synchronicity, Jung Tender Buttons, Stein Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald (both versions) The Abolition of Man, Lewis The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts The Bell Jar, Plath The Bhagavad Gita, trans. Juan Mascaró The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, trans. Burton The Book of Hours, Rilke, trans. Deutsch The Book of Tea, Okakura The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger The Children of the Zodiac, Kipling The Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis (complete series) The City of the Gods, Dunne The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh, Milne The Creed, Marthaler The Crucible, Miller The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories, Tolstoy (Signet ed.) The Devil in the White City, Larson The Dharma Bums, Kerouac The Didache The Eight Doors of the Kingdom, Philippe The End of the Affair, Greene The Epic of Gilgamesh The Eyes of the Dragon, King The Fall, Camus The Fifth Column and The First Forty-Nine, Hemingway The Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire The Great Divorce, Lewis The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald The Heart of the Matter, Greene The Historian, Kostova The History Boys, Bennett The History of the Church, Midwest Theological Forum The House of Bernarda Alba, Lorca The I Ching of Book of Changes, Baynes The Iliad, Homer The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud The Joy of Love (Amoris Laetitia), Francis The Jungle, Sinclair The Kingdom of God is Within You, Tolstoy The Lice, Merwin The Little Prince, Sint-Exupery The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake The Mass of the Early Christians, Aquilina The Metamorphosis, Kafka The Mind's I, Hofstadter and Dennett The Moviegoer, Percy The Name of God is Mercy, Francis The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount, Calvino The Odyssey, Homer The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise, Borges The Picture of Dorian Grey, Wilde The Plague, Camus The Power and the Glory, Greene The Prophet, Gibran The Psalms The Red Badge of Courage, Crane The Redeemer of Man (Redemptor Hominis), John Paul II The Restoration of Christian Culture, Senior The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge The Rule of St. Benedict The Satanic Verses, Rushdie The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne The Screwtape Letters, Lewis The Sea Remains, Sulivan The Secret Garden, Burnett The Shadow Line, Conrad The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner The Stranger, Camus The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway The Troll Garden, Cather The Trumpet of the Swan, White The Virgin Suicides, Eugenides The Way and Its Power (Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching), Waley The Way of All Flesh, Butler The Wind in the Willows, Grahame The World Within the Word, Hazo Theology of the Body, John Paul II This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald 'Til We Have Faces, Lewis Time Out of Mind, Boulle To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee Treasure Island, Stevenson Tropic of Cancer, Miller Tropic of Capricorn, Miller Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Neruda Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Verne Ulysses, Joyce Understanding the Scriptures, Midwest Theological Forum Vipers' Tangle, Mauriac Visions of Gerard, Kerouac Walden, Thoreau Women in Love, Lawrence Wuthering Heights, Bronte Yerma, Lorca |
To watch
12 Angry Men, Lumet
2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick A Fistful of Dollars, Leone A Hidden Life, Malick A Man for All Seasons, Zinnemann A Place in the Sun, Stevens A Shot in the Dark, Edwards Absence of Malice, Pollack Adaptation, Jonze Amelie, Jeunet American Beauty, Mendes American Graffiti, Lucas Amistad, Spielberg Amores Perros, Iñárritu An American in Paris, Minnelli And Justice for All, Jewison Annie Hall, Allen Apocalypse Now, Coppola Atonement, Wright Beau Is Afraid, Aster Belfast, Branagh Ben-Hur, Wyler Birdman, Iñárritu Biutiful, Iñárritu Black Swan, Aronofsky Blade Runner, Scott Braveheart, Gibson Bright Star, Campion Broken Flowers, Jarmusch Casablanca, Curtiz Catholicism, Barron Chariots of Fire, Hudson Children of Men, Cuarón Chinatown, Polanski Citizen Kane, Welles City Lights, Chaplin City of God, Meirelles Cleopatra, Mankiewicz Corpus Christi, Komasa Crimes of the Future, Cronenberg Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Lee Dances With Wolves, Costner Days of Heaven, Malick Dead Poets Society, Weir Doctor Zhivago, Lean Dog Day Afternoon, Lumet Donnie Darko, Kelly Don't Look Back, Pennebaker Doubt, Shanley Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick Edward Scissorhands, Burton Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gondry Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick Fences, Washington Fiddler on the Roof, Jewison Fight Club, Fincher For a Few Dollars More, Leone From Here to Eternity, Zinnemann Gangs of New York, Scorsese Good Will Hunting, Van Sant Goodfellas, Scorsese Hotel Rwanda, George Hyde Park on Hudson, Michell Inception, Nolan Into Great Silence, Gröning Like Water for Chocolate, Arau Lost in Translation, Coppola Manhattan, Allen Mary Poppins, Stevenson Match Point, Allen Midsommer, Aster Modern Times, Chaplin Mr. Arkadin, Wells On the Waterfront, Kazan One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Forman Orpheus, Cocteau Parasite, Ho Patton, Schaffner Predator, McTiernan Pulp Fiction, Tarantino Raging Bull, Scorsese Rear Window, Hitchcock Rebel Without a Cause, Ray Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino Rocky I-IV, Stalone Romeo and Juliet, Luhrmann Rushmore, Anderson Silence, Scorsese Singin' in the Rain, Kelly Star Trek I-VI, various The Darjeeling Limited, Anderson The Deer Hunter, Cimino The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Schnabel The Exterminating Angel, Buñuel The Godfather I-III, Coppola The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Leone The Graduate, Nichols The Grand Budapest Hotel, Anderson The History Boys, Hytner The Hunt for Red October, McTiernan The Life Aquatic, Anderson The Mission, Joffé The Pianist, Polanski The Place Beyond the Pines, Cianfrance The Revenant, Iñárritu The Ring, Verbinski The Royal Tenenbaums, Anderson The Searchers, Ford The Shawshank Redemption, Darabont The Sound of Music, Wise The Substance, Fargeat The Ten Commandments, DeMille The Third Man, Reed The Thomas Crown Affair, McTiernan The Tree of Life, Malick The Verdict, Lumet The Wizard of Oz, Fleming The Wrestler, Aronofsky There Will Be Blood, Anderson To Kill A Mockingbird, Mulligan Wall Street, Stone Y Tu Mamá También, Cuarón |
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