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Reading My Way to Adulthood
As an adolescent, I used fantasy in an attempt to hold on to my childhood innocence and hated “Catcher in the Rye.” Little did I realize that Salinger’s novel describes my struggle.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Circus Animals Desertion", adolescence, Catcher in the Rye, Coming of Age, existentialism. Jean Paul Sartre, fantasy, J. D. Salinger, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Ring, W. B. Yeats Comments closed
If Trump Tweeted Classic Lit Reviews…
Donald Trump has a very distinctive twitter style., one that would be great for classic book reviews. A BuzzFeed writer imagines how he might have reviewed “Hamlet,” “Tristram Shandy,” “Ulysses,” and other classics.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Donald Trump, Ernest Hemingway, Hamlet, J. R. R. Tolkien, James Joyce, Lawrence Sterne, Lord of the Rings, Stranger, Sun Also Rises, Tristram Shandy, Ulysses, William Shakespeare Comments closed
When It Comes to Culture, Bet on France
In the wake of the ISIS attacks, France has something to fall back on: its proud literary tradition.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Guillaume Apollinaire, ISIS, Jean Paul Sartre, John Oliver, Marcel Proust, Paris terror attacks, Victor Hugo Comments closed
Art Is the Path to Liberation
Nick Brown, a very bright philosophy and English double major, reflects on how to live a worthwhile life. An aesthetic approach to life is at the core of his argument.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ode on a Grecian Urn", Art, As You Like It, Dogen, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, existentialism, Fear and Trembling, John Keats, Karl Marx, liberation, Macbeth, Myth of Sisyphus, Soren Kierkegaard, Zen Buddhism Comments closed
Two Parables Involving Falling Leaves
Scott Bates and Lucille Clifton find poetic lessons in falling leaves.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Existentialist Leaf", "lesson of the falling leaves", Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom, existentialism, Freedom, Jean Anouilh, Jean Paul Sartre, Lucille Clifton, Samuel Beckett, Scott Bates Comments closed
Cinderella vs. Jane Eyre in Soccer Final
In tomorrow’s World Cup finals, Japan is Cinderella going up against America’s Jane Eyre.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Any Given Sunday, Charles Baudelaire, Charlotte Bronte, Cinderella, Dead Poets Society, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Jean de la Fontaine, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach, Sense and Sensibility, Soccer, Sports, Taming of the Shrew, Villette, William Shakespeare Comments closed