Monthly Archives: November 2014

Books Protect Us from Madness

Markus Zusak’s “The Book Thief” shows both the power and the danger of stories.

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Behn’s Comedy Masks Feminist Protest

Aphra Behn’s 1677 play “The Rover” hides its feminist protest within a comic form.

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Who is the Worst Rake in Jane Austen?

A ranking of jane Austen’s rakes. Who is the most objectionable?

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Dr. Seuss: We Can Do Better Than This

Scott Bates’ homage do Dr. Seuss tell us to draw on the power of the imagination and buck up.

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A Play for the Painfully Shy

Oliver Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer” is balm for the painfully shy

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Biblical Paintings, Allowable Eroticism

Many famous Biblical paintings were thinly veiled excuses for eroticism. Trollope captures this in “The Last Chronicle of Barset.”

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Ignorant Armies Clash by Night

Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” has some sentiments which apply to the National Football League.

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Social Media Invades the Classics

Imagining literary characters using social media opens up new insights into a work.

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Beholding the Summer Dead before Me

Shakespeare and Swinburne both write powerful poems about autumn.

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