To run successfully against Obama, Mitt Romney may need to flipflop from Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street” to Edward Lewis in “Pretty Woman.”
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Vs. Obama, Would Mitt Change Movies?
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Capitalism, Film, Mitt Romney, Presidential primary, Pretty Woman Comments closed
The Translator’s Impossible Dilemma
A translator of literature must choose between poetry and accuracy. It’s almost impossible to have both.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Emma Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, Ivan Cankar, translation, Ward of Our Lady of Mercy Comments closed
Sons Must Kill Their Fathers, Alas
There’s is no easy way for son’s to find their identities apart from their fathers, but they have no choice but to try.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Denis Diderot, fathers and sons, Henry IV, Homer, Odyssey, Shakespeare, Stendahl, The Scarlet and the Black Comments closed
Following Shipwreck, Replay of Lord Jim?
Joseph Conrad’s novel “Lord Jim” came to mind when I heard reports that the captain of the shipwrecked cruise ship Costa Concordia may have abandoned the ship before all the passengers were off.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Costa Concordia shipwreck, Cowardice, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim Comments closed
MLK: A Diamond Molded by Pressure
Nikki Giovanni’s “In the Spirit of Martin” talks about Martin Luther King and others in the Civil Rights Movement as having been molded by the immense pressure into crystalline diamonds.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "In the Spirit of Martin", Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, Nikki Giovanni Comments closed
Syria’s Massacre of the Innocents
Updating Herod’s slaughter of the innocents, Scott Bates imagines a soldier who takes a principled stand and refuses to participate.
Tintin to the Rescue
The new film “Tintin” takes me back to my childhood, when my brothers and I scoured Paris book shops to assemble a complete set of what were early graphic novels.
The Classics, Guides to Our Best Selves
Wayne Booth describes the classics as friends in the deepest and most productive sense of the word.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Company We Keep, Ethical Criticism, Literary Theory, Wayne Booth Comments closed
The Reader’s Role in Literature
Reader Response Theory focuses on the reader’s involvement in literature, opening up avenues untouched by formalist criticism.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Hans Robert Jauss, Literary Criticism, Norman Holland, Reader Response Theory, Stanley Fish, Wolfgang Iser Comments closed
