2023 Workshop Talk | 57:34 | Literature
Summary
In addition to the pleasure and insights that all great literature gives, Russian literature excels in bringing to our attention concepts that are edifying for classical Christian teachers and students: the value of beauty, a prophetic critique of the modern age, and the importance of the Incarnation. In this workshop, we will get a brief introduction to the life and key works of five great Russian authors: Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Speaker
Stephen Rippon teaches upper school literature and composition at Delaware Valley Classical School in New Castle, Delaware. In addition to sixteen years of teaching in classical Christian schools, Stephen taught four years at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is grateful for the opportunity to read and teach the great works of Homer, Shakespeare, and Dostoevsky (among other favorites) year after year in a Christian setting. He has contributed three guides to the Canon Classics Worldview Series, including one on Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Stephen’s wife, Jennifer, teaches science at DVCS, and they have three children.
srippon@dvclassical.org
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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