Between The Purple Passages


by Ashley Zimunya


  • About
  • Prose and Poetry
  • The Stage and Beyond
  • Faith and Culture
  • Book ReviewsReviews
  • Past Essays
  • Understandings of The World, Matter, & Relations Between the Human and Non-Human in Medieval and Post-Modern Literature

    The Fall Medieval Christian society understood the Fall as an upheaval of God’s intended design for creation as it brought about a reconfiguration of humans’ relationship to their surroundings, creating a world in which humans now needed to kill animals for food and clothing. The Fall was also understood as… Continue reading

    Faith and Culture, Past Essays
    De Proprietatibus Rerum, Genesis, Geoffrey Chaucer, Isidore of Seville, John of Trevisa, On The Properties of Things, The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville

About

If your hobbies also include reading, thinking excessively about everything you read, and learning other people’s thoughts on the things they’ve read recently or a long time ago, you’re very welcome here!

This is where you can find my observations on various texts (a text here being anything that can be ‘read’ and thus including film, theatre, or Taylor Swift lyrics, for example) and what I think can be found between their “purple passages”.

Recent Posts

  • Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2026): A Meditation on Love, Grief, and Art*
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama
  • My 2025 in Books*
  • The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction

Recent Posts

  • Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2026): A Meditation on Love, Grief, and Art*
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama
  • My 2025 in Books*

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