“Great Expectations” is a perfect novel to teach high school students.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Romney as Shakespeare’s Dark Lady?!
“I do believe her, though I know she lies,” wrote Shakespeare about the dark lady. It could also be said by some Republican voters about Mitt Romney.
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The Cleanness of Sweet Abstinence
Herbert paradoxically describes Lent as a “dear Feast” in which we can revel.
Downton Abbey vs. the Super Bowl
The conflict between the Super Bowl and “Downton Abbey” is anticipated in Tom Robbins’s comic novel “Skinny Legs and All,” only with a dancer rather than a television series.
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Random Reading: Intoxicant, Tranquilizer
A. S. Byatt describes narrative as “one of the best intoxicants or tranquilizers.”
Using Lit to Figure Out Mitt
Which literary character is Mitt Romney? Possibilities include Faustus, Chauncey Gardener, the Hollow Men, Richard Cory, Tom Buchanan, and Joseph Conrad’s Station Manager.
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Jeremy Lin Speaks Out Loud and Bold
See explosive Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin appear from nowhere brings to mind the Keats poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.”
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