Literature 10 most painful marriage proposals.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Lit’s 10 Most Painful Marriage Proposals
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Beggar's Opera, Charlotte Bronte, Daniel Defoe, Far from the Madding Crowd, Geoffrey Chaucer, Importance of Being Earnest, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, John Gay, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Marriage, marriage proposals, Moll Flanders, Oscar Wilde, Pride and Prejudice, Thomas Hardy, Wife of Bath Comments closed
Poetic Guides through Cultural Devastation
Indian poets are necessary to keep cultural identity alive and to forge new paths in a white world.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Ceremony, Crow Nation, cultural devastation, Leslie Marmon Silko, Native Americans, Radical Hope Comments closed
Jane Eyre’s Critique of the 1%
The critique in “Jane Eyre” of privileged classes who attack the poor anticipates today’s political scene.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Charlotte Bronte, food stamp cuts, GOP, Jane Eyre, Obamacare one percent Comments closed
Haiyan, Climate Change Denial, & Lear
“King Lear” gives us language to describe Typhoon Haiyan and also a framework to understand climate change denialism.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged climate change, climate change denialism, hurricanes, King Lear, Typhoon Haiyan, typhoons, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Poetry – A Finite Image of Infinity
Frithjof Schuon explores how poetry echoes the divine.
Sarah (Malaprop) Palin vs. Obamacare
Sarah Palin’s attack on Obamacare sounds as though it were delivered by Mrs. Malaprop.
A Judge’s Love Affair with Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust has made Stephen Breyer a better Supreme Court justice.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged À la recherche du temps perdu, constitutional law, Marcel Proust, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court Comments closed
The 10 Most Unreliable Narrators
Here’s a list of some of literature’s great unreliable narrators.
