Maddy Kirkwood July 21st, 2022 Essay #4 – Alexandria  Novel and Spirituality  Her feet have gone numb under the dark, icy water; Sfia’s body shivered with fear as she peered around the group of women encircling her. Her mother rested her traveled hands on her heart as Sfia floated quietly, gazing up at the insidious…

Maddy Kirkwood  July 15th, 2022 Essay #3 – Laurus Novel and Spirituality Her warm blood trickles down his forearms, and Ustina’s screams have ceased; he knows there is no longer a spirit in the body he is cradling. Arseny’s heart overflows with guilt and regret as he glances at the swaddle of cloth wrapped around…

Maddy Kirkwood July 18th, 2022 Reading Reflection #8 – Alexandria  The Novel & Spirituality  In the novel Alexandria, there are a number of elements of overlay landscape; for example, the people in the small Edg community are seemingly living in what was left of the natural earth as we know it whilst being barraged by…

Maddy Kirkwood July 6th, 2022 Reading Reflection #7 – Laurus  Novel and Spirituality Please post a minimum 400-word blog on how one or more of the four elements of the novelistic tradition may be related symbolically to the readings in Laurus. In the novel Laurus, there are many elements of overlay landscape, for example, the…

Maddy Kirkwood July 6th, 2022 Essay 2 – Emma Novel and Spirituality  The essay should focus on the foundational four elements of the tradition of the novel (overlay landscape, cosmic symbolism of marriage, relational identity, and transfigurative virtue) as they are expressed in  Emma and on related symbolic meanings of the book as reflecting the…

Maddy Kirkwood July 6th, 2022 Reading Reflection #6 – Laurus  Novel and Spirituality Read Book of Renunciation in Laurus (pp. 97-180) Memo: Minimum 200 words. Reflect on a passage in your individual focus section in terms of a symbolic reading related to one aspect of the four elements of the novel tradition. Include at the…

Maddy Kirkwood June 30th, 2022 Reading Reflection #5: Emma – Final Volume Novel and Spirituality  The symbols of union and commitment are heavily present in chapter fifty of Emma. Emma and Mr. Knightley have just been engaged and Emma is thrilled but also wary of what this means for Harriet and her father. Emma decides…

Maddy Kirkwood June 27th, 2022 Essay 1 Novel and Spirituality  The essay should focus on the foundational four elements of the tradition of the novel as they are expressed in Rhodanthe and Dosikles, and on related symbolic meanings of the book as reflecting the “four ways of biblical reading” as developed in early Mediterranean Christian…

Maddy Kirkwood June 23rd, 2022 4th Reading Reflection – Emma Novel and Spirituality The cosmic symbolism of marriage is one of the four elements of the tradition of the novel that is heavily observed in the novel Emma. The symbolism of marriage in this story can be seen as a focus on understanding each character’s…

Maddy Kirkwood June 20th, 2022 3rd Reading Reflection: Chapters 5 – 9 of Rhodanthe and Dosikles Novel and Spirituality Following the “four ways of reading” developed from biblical studies, one could read chapters five through nine of Rhodanthe and Dosikles and gain four different interpretations of the novel: literal, moral, allegorical, and anagogical. If I…