The World Cup is leading to some great literary tweets from my English professor son.
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Was Oedipus Deserving of a Red Card?
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Children as Devouring Mice?!
Images of devourment show up in children’s lit (“Children’s Hour,” “The Night Kitchen,” “Little Black Sambo,” “Runaway Bunny”), speaking to an inner tension in kids.
U.S. Soccer and the Ancient Mariner’s Curse
After Trump intervened with FIFA to overturn a red card, the USMT still lost. It was as though the Greek goddess Nemesis had intervened.
Beowulf and “the Viking Row”
The “Viking Row” buoyed the Norwegian soccer team, bringing to mind a literary seafaring Scandinavian (i.e., Beowulf).
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Finding Deep Rest in a Still Room
A John Greeleaf Whittier poem making a strong case for communal worship.
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My Early Literary Civics Lessons
In which I explore the works that contributed to my vision of being an American.
Harry Kane as Henry V Redux
In which I compare England transcendent goal scorer Harry Kane to Shakespeare’s Henry V.
Reading Changes Us in Foundational Ways
In which I share an excerpt from Maryanne Wolf’s “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World.”
Read Novels Like a Victorian
My response to an article lamenting that the presence of screens destroyed his love of novels.