Virginia Woolf may have used “To the Lighthouse” to explore the possibilities of human intimacy.
Patmore’s “Angel in the House” is no longer read but it defined the domestic ideal for much of the 19th century.
Allison Barrett, a St. Mary’s College of Maryland senior, shares her senior project presentation, which includes poetry and creative non-fiction to capture the experience of a disabled or non-neurotypical woman.
Many readers have they anxiety that they haven’t read all the books they should have. Bibliotherapists claim that they can offer relief.
I had mixed feelings about a recent article in “The New Yorker” on bibliotherapy.
How to handle instances of prejudice in the classics? Let the values battles fly.
Posted in Lawrence (D. H.), Milton (John), Rabelais (Francois), Woolf (Virginia) | Also tagged D. H. Lawrence, Dion Boucicault, Heidi, Johanna Spyri, John Milton, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Octoroon, Paradise Lost, Prejudice, Rabelais, racism, Sexism, To the Lighthouse |
When I think of a mother-son relationship that most matches my own, I think of Betsy Trotwood and David Copperfield.
Posted in Dickens (Charles), Woolf (Virginia) | Also tagged Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Everything that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor, mothers and sons, Oedipus, Parenting, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Sophocles, To the Lighthouse |
A number of poets have written poems about the apocalypse. But it’s always figurative, never literal.
Posted in Arnold (Matthew), Pope (Alexander), Shelley (Percy), Woolf (Virginia) | Also tagged "Hellas", "Second Coming", "Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse", Alexander Pope, Apocalyptic literature, Between the Acts, Dunciad, Matthew Arnold, Mayan Apocalypse, William Butler Yeats |
Two wonderfully light poems give readers a chance to test their knowledge of cultural history.
Virginia Woolf I have been reporting on the salons we have been holding to honor my friend and former colleague at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Alan Paskow. Alan has an aggressive cancer that has moved into his lungs, and while the outlook is not good, he and his wife Jackie (also a former colleague) […]
