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NIETZSCHE and THE PROBLEM OF VALUES Part 1: What has made, and what now makes, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche(1844-1900) so important, is that he recognized with great force, clarity and impressive foresight the most troubling and persistent problem of modernity: the problem of values. His writ...

It has been more than ten years since I first posted on this thread. I'll add an item to keep the thread alive and to maintain some continuity.-Ron ---------------------------------------------- Section 1: Research, in the sense that I use the term, is a studious inquiry or examination; my type of r...

The following is a revision of some thoughts on Herman Melville after watching Moby Dick on ABC1(8 and 15 May, 8:35 to 10:00 p.m.). Kerry Saunders, a Peabody Journalism Award winner, was interviewed by Alan Saunders back on 30 June 2007 and he stated in that interview that Moby Dick(1851) was a meta...

VISIONS Two of Virginia Woolf’s major works came out in the first year(4/’37-4/’38) of the first Baha’i Seven Year Plan(1937-1944). One work, Three Guineas, was an essay in epistolary format demonstrating Virginia Woolf's views on war and women. As an unfinished manuscript it was published in 1937 ...

This prose-poem takes the Steinbeck story back to the 1850s.... :arrow: __________________________ MISSED HIM BY A HAIR In the 1850s the American writer John Steinbeck's grandfather, Johann Steinbeck, left Germany to live in Palestine. He married a woman of American descent Almira Dickson in 1854. I...

SETTING MY STAMP I do not anticipate setting my stamp on the general physiognomy of literature during my lifetime. Given the reorientation of literary interest since I was born in 1944, since the affluent post-war years(1945-1973) through to the explosion on the internet as I entered my fifties in t...

SOME EARLY NOTES OF THE CLARION CALL TO ONENESS Oneness, the unity, interdependence and interrelatedness of all of life, is at the heart of John Steinbeck's writings, at least for the twenty-five year period 1941-1966. This concept is also at the heart of the Baha'i teachings. This poem draws these ...

A SUMMARY OF RON PRICE’S INTERNET PUBLISHING “HIS CUP OF PUBLISHING TEA” I have outlined below several categories of my writing, my writing projects of varying sizes, genres and subjects on the internet. You can gradually get into whatever categories of my work you desire, if at any time you do in f...

Here is some of my book about the poetry of a fellow Canadian, Roger White: _________________ LIPSTICK AND BRUISES Part 1: Although this book is devoted primarily to the poetry of Roger White, I have added special chapters to focus on a small selection of his letters, on his books of prose and here ...

It has been nearly 2 years since I posted at this site on the subject of autobiography. I'll post an essay here on the subject that may be of interest and will continue the theme enunciated 2 years ago here: ______________________________ ESSAY 2005 In 1995 I wrote my first essay on the nature of au...

"Not beginning at the Beginning...." My individual journey from the promised land, from my home in Canada, my home town in Burlington Ontario, from one promised land to another and then another I have written in the form of a 800 page autobiography. It took me twenty years to write this piece and in...

1.1. The Emergence of a Baha’i Consciousness in World Literature: The Poetry of Roger White. This 300 page ebook is available at Baha’i Library Online and parts of it can be accessed at many places on the internet. Go to: http://bahai-library.com/price_poetry_roger_white 1.2. This self-publishing si...

There are plethoras of sites on: writing, diaries/journals, novels and short stories and autobiography for the most part gets subsumed under these headings. There are many sites with an autobiographical focus, but they are about (i) how to write an autobiography, (ii) send yours to us types and (iii...

I have written two books, both on the internet. __________________ :arrow: There are many ways to access my writing on The Internet. The easiest is to go to the: Ask Jeeves search engine and type in the words: Pioneering Over Four Epochs. This gives you access to some 150 sub-sites of my writing. So...

The most popular genre of writing since Columbus sailed the ocean blue is, arguably, autobiography. The vast majority of writing sites pay some homage to autobiography but few sites focus on the subject. This topic has found a niche market all over the world. Stories of peoples lives, various autobi...