Esquivel captures the greater significance of food in “Like Water for Chocolate.” I also share a whiskey cake recipe and reflect on the magic in magical realism.
Monthly Archives: April 2018
Food Is More Than Food for Esquivel
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged 100 Years of Solitude, cake recipe, Confessions, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haruki Murakami, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate, magical realism, Marcel Proust, Midnight's Children, Remembrance of Things Past, Salman Rushdie, whiskey cake, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Comments closed
A Public Liberal Arts Education
In which I assess what my students have gained from having attended a public liberal arts college.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Jean Giraudoux, Liberal arts education, Madwoman of Chaillot, public education, public liberal arts college, Ronald Reagan, St. Mary's College of Maryland Comments closed
My “Last Lecture”
I share here my “last lecture” from my retirement ceremony. (But rest assured: I will not be retiring from this blog.)
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Aristotle, Bertolt Brecht, Chinua Achebe, Divine Comedy, Goethe, Heart of Darkness, Horace, Huckleberry Finn, integration, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, Martha Nussbaum Wayne Booth, Matthew Arnold, Percy Shelley, Plato, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Samuel Johnson, segregation, Sir Philip Sydney, Terry Eagleton, W. E. B. Du Bois, Wayne Booth Comments closed
When Science Clips an Angel’s Wings
Scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins disagrees with Keats and Poe in their attacks on science. I think he loses the argument.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Mock on, "Mont Blanc", "To Science" John Keats, Edgar Allen Poem, Lamia, Percy Shelley, Richard Dawkins, William Blake Comments closed
Senior Projects and Alice’s Rabbit Hole
I compare senior theses to Alice falling down a rabbit hole. But not in the way you think.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, senior projects, student essays Comments closed
Literature Has Paul Ryan’s Number
Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Chinua Achebe, John Milton, and Thomas Hardy see through men like departing Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "How Doth the Little Crocodile", Alice in Wonderland, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Charles Dickens, Chinua Achebe, Hard Times, John Milton, Lewis Carroll, Oliver Twist, Paradise Lost, Paul Ryan politics, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Things Fall Apart, Thomas Hardy Comments closed
Ferreting Out White House Corruption
Salman Rushdie’s fantasy about genii attacking the earth contains a fantasy that is very topical: a “storm baby” who can root out graft.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged corruption, Salman Rushdie, Trump administration, Two Years Eight months and Twenty Eight Nights Comments closed
