About Thomas H. Landess

Dr. Thomas H. Landess (1931–2012) held a Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina and was a professor of literature for more than twenty years. He served as Academic Dean of the University Dallas and as a founding member of the Abbeville Institute.

James Joyce & Aesthetic Gnosticism

By |2019-09-10T16:34:40-05:00February 4th, 2017|Categories: Catholicism, Eric Voegelin, Literature, Philosophy|Tags: |

The kind of freedom people speak of today is more likely than not something more than emancipation from political tyranny. It is freedom from social custom, from tradition, from the created order, freedom from God. And for this troubling illusion, we may in part thank James Joyce… The plight of the artist in the modern [...]

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The Art of Intimacy

By |2015-06-05T13:21:51-05:00June 15th, 2015|Categories: Books, Donald Davidson, Southern Agrarians|Tags: |

The Literary Correspondence of Donald Davidson and Allen Tate edited by John Tyree Fain and Thomas Daniel Young. Of those sources ordinarily consulted by literary historians and critics, letters are surely among the most suspect. In the first place, we all write lines that are no more than the accepted conventions of social intercourse: “I apologize [...]

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