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Roderick MacDonald
No full textMacDonald is seated at a desk with papers in front of him. He is looking at the camera, and his body is angled to the left of the frame.Inscriptions on image and/or album page: "Roderick MacDonald"Digitized by: MBLWHOI Libraryimage/jpg black and white image reformatted digitalPhotograph
Rooted in all its story, more is meant than meets the ear : a study of the relational and revelational nature of George MacDonald's mythopoeic art
No full textScholars and storytellers alike have deemed George MacDonald a great mythopoeic writer, an exemplar of the art. Examination of this accolade by those who first applied it to him proves it profoundly theological: for them a mythopoeic tale was a relational medium through which transformation might occur, transcending boundaries of time and space. The implications challenge much contemporary critical study of MacDonald, for they demand that his literary life and his theological life cannot be divorced if either is to be adequately assessed. Yet they prove consistent with the critical methodology MacDonald himself models and promotes. Utilizing MacDonald’s relational methodology evinces his intentional facilitating of Mythopoesis. It also reveals how oversights have impeded critical readings both of MacDonald’s writing and of his character. It evokes a redressing of MacDonald’s relationship with his Scottish cultural, theological, and familial environment – of how his writing is a response that rises out of these, rather than, as has so often been asserted, a mere reaction against them. Consequently it becomes evident that key relationships, both literary and personal, have been neglected in MacDonald scholarship – relationships that confirm MacDonald’s convictions and inform his writing, and the examination of which restores his identity as a literature scholar. Of particular relational import in this reassessment is A.J. Scott, a Scottish visionary intentionally chosen by MacDonald to mentor him in a holistic Weltanschauung. Little has been written on Scott, yet not only was he MacDonald’s prime influence in adulthood, but he forged the literary vocation that became MacDonald’s own. Previously unexamined personal and textual engagement with John Ruskin enables entirely new readings of standard MacDonald texts, as does the textual engagement with Matthew Arnold and F.D. Maurice. These close readings, informed by the established context, demonstrate MacDonald’s emergence, practice, and intent as a mythopoeic writer
Every great university needs a legal studies programme
No full textRoderick MacDonald argues that a legal studies programme should be a core component of every great university. The questions there pursued better enable the university to defend itself against its enemies, both external and internal
Panel 3: Lunch [Keynote Speaker]
No full textPANEL III: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Moderator: Lorne Sossin, Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School; Remarks: Mamdouh Shoukri, President & Vice-Chancellor, York University; Introduction: Harry A. Arthurs, Professor Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School; Keynote Speaker: Roderick A. Macdonald, F.R. Scott Professor of Constitutional and Public Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Law Reform for Dummies (Third Edition)
DEAF-BLINDNESS: AN EMERGING CULTURE?
No full textThis paper traces the emergence of deaf-blind people through education, employment and social union into a modern community and culture. It takes note of individual accomplishments as well as the achievements of organizations for the deaf-blind. The article notes several characteristics unique to the deaf-blind culture: touch, group communication, dependence on interpreters, social mores imposed by deaf-blindness, games, class barriers, reduced general knowledge, economics, and language. The Deaf Way. Paper presented by Roderick Macdonald, president American Association of the Deaf-Blind, July 11, 198
Roderick MacDonald
No full textOf St. Andrew's, he was a seminarian at the Propaganda College in Rome at the time of his death
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