Tuesday, May 21, 2013
About Mars Hill Audio
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Alan Jacobs is a professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois, and a regular guest on the Mars Hill Audio Journal. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and his B.A. from the University of Alabama. His professional interests include literary theory and the history of criticism, British Commonwealth literature, and religion and literature. He is widely published, including articles in The American Scholar, Christianity and Literature, and Books and Culture. To visit his web page, click here. Alan Jacobs has also been featured on the MARS HILL AUDIO Conversations "Decadent Immortals: Alan Jacobs on Anne Rice" and "The Public Poetry of W. H. Auden." Short descriptions of these Conversations are listed here. In addition, MARS HILL AUDIO has recorded Jacobs's A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age. A description of the book is available here. A chapter about C. S. Lewis from Jacobs's A Visit to Vanity Fair is published on the MARS HILL AUDIO Anthology, The Christian Mind of C. S. Lewis. For more information about it, click here.Our November 2007 podcast featured an extended version of an interview we had with Jacobs on Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, on Volume 48 of the Journal. The podcast is called Audition, and the extended interview can be found here. The Apocalypse: "It's a-comin', and it's gonna be big" | Alan Jacobs, on W. H. Auden's understanding of the vocation of "poet" and on the spiritual and historical background to Auden's 1947 book-length poem, The Age of Anxiety (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, July/Aug. 2011) MHT-110.2.1 Alan Jacobs, on how the literary form of the essay reproduces the unpredictable way that our thoughts develop (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 2010) MHT-105.2.3 Alan Jacobs, on being maudlin in Madison County (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Nov./Dec. 2009) MHT-100.2.11 Alan Jacobs, on practical consequences of belief in original sin (and the five distinct components of that belief) (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 2008) MHT-93.1.1 Alan Jacobs, on how The Chronicles of Narnia reveal much of C. S. Lewis's thinking on almost everything, and on how Lewis's imagination was prepared to write such books (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Nov./Dec. 2005) MHT-77.2.1 Alan Jacobs, on Michael Chabon's Summerland and Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Nov./Dec. 2002) MHT-59.1.3 Alan Jacobs, on Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Jan./Feb. 2001) MHT-48.2.3 Alan Jacobs, on why Harry Potter's magic shouldn't trouble Christians (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 1999) MHT-40.2.4 Alan Jacobs, on William Faulkner as a modernist and a Southerner (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Nov./Dec. 1997) MHT-29.1.4 Alan Jacobs, on The Dictionary of Global Culture and "Real" Global Culture (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, March/April 1997) MHT-26.1.4 Alan Jacobs, on the portrayal of morals and manners in films based on Jane Austen novels (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Jan./Feb. 1996) MHT-19.2.1 Alan Jacobs, on the seafaring fiction of novelist Patrick O'Brian (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 1995) MHT-17.1.1 Alan Jacobs, on the storytelling powers of neurologist Oliver Sacks (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, July/Aug. 1995) MHT-16.2.1 Alan Jacobs, on the moral dumbing down of Louisa May Alcott's novel in the movie version of Little Women (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, March/April 1995) MHT-14.1.5 Alan Jacobs, on Anne Rice and the popularity of her vampire novels (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Jan./Feb. 1995) MHT-13.1.4 Alan Jacobs, on the Christian conviction of poet Christina Rossetti (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Nov./Dec. 1994) MHT-12.1.4 Alan Jacobs, on Chinua Achebe and the dilemma of living between two cultures (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 1994) MHT-11.2.3 Alan Jacobs, on novelist Iris Murdoch and how fiction encourages reflection in the moral life (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, March/April 1994) MHT-8.1.1 Alan Jacobs, on W. H. Auden's poetry and social philosophy (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Nov./Dec. 1993) MHT-6.1.4 Alan Jacobs, on The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller, and why sentimentalism in life and in art is a moral problem (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, July/Aug. 1993) MHT-4.1.1 Alan Jacobs, on The Children of Men by P. D. James (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, May/June 1993) MHT-3.2.1 |