e. e. cummings ushers in spring with a joyous celebration.
Monthly Archives: March 2018
When the World Is Mud-Luscious
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Trump on a Hot Tin Roof
Trump’s lawyer as compared the FBI to the mendacity that pervades “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” The play applies, all right, but to Trump and Dowd themselves.
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Female Intimacy in Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf may have used “To the Lighthouse” to explore the possibilities of human intimacy.
Filled with Some Other Power
Denise Levertov’s beautiful poem “The Well” works as a commentary on John’s gospel account of the Samaritan woman at the well.
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Believing in the Great White Race
Teaching Langston Hughes’s “Ku Klux” in Ljubljana prompted the students to think of Europes neo-fascists.
Corruption Starts at the Top
The spread of Trumpian corruption is an instance of the fish rotting from the top. “King Lear” shows this process at work.
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Theories about Lit’s Impact
A transcript of a talk given at the University of Ljubljana on “how literature changes lives.”
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A Moving Foster Home Story
Over the weekend I stayed with a former Slovenian exchange student and his foster mother and learned about their moving story.
