The Unforeseen Triumph of Easter - Crisis Magazine

The Unforeseen Triumph of Easter - Crisis Magazine: In the Poetics of Aristotle, that wonder of brevity and wit on the art of making (poiesis), there is a clever little thing called peripety, which is a device deployed by the artist to alert his audience to any sudden or unexpected turn of events in the unfolding of a story. For instance, the awful …