If Chaucer’s created a timeless and transcendent character in the Wife of Bath, it is because he listened–really listened–to women.
Tag Archives: Feminism
A Woman 600 Years Ahead of Her Time
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Beowulf, Christian misogyny, Defence of Poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer, Harold Bloom, Percy Shelley, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wife of Bath, William Shakespeare Comments closed
The Left Wants to Cancel Orwell? Nope
MAGA fans of 1984 are now accusing leftists of canceling Orwell. Which is not true.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 1984, authoritarianism, Donald Trump, George Orwell, Sandra Newman Comments closed
Affirmative Action & Lessons in Chemistry
Garmus’s “Lessons in Chemistry” indirectly exposes the ignorance of the Supreme Court striking down affirmative action.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Elegy on a Country Churchyard", affirmative action, Bonnie Garmus, Clarence Thomas, Joy Reid, Lessons in Chemistry, Thomas Gray, Title IX Comments closed
Lady Audley’s Secret: Iron Resolve
Braddon’s 1862 novel “Lady Audley’s Secret” has a vision of female power that leaps off the page.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Winston Churchill Comments closed
Rethinking Oleanna
I’m rethinking Mamet’s “Oleanna” after seeing a Slovenian philosophy student praise it. In the past, I have hated the play for what I see as its attack on feminism.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged David Mamet, male entitlement, male privilege, Oleanna, She Said Comments closed
A Coal Poem for Attorney Woo
In an episode of “Extraordinary Attorney Woo,” we encounter a poem about charcoal and selflessness.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Chunk of Charcoal", "to a dark moses", Ahn Do-hyun, autism, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Lucille Clifton Comments closed
Is There an End to the Battle of the Sexes?
An excerpt from Rachel Kranz’s unpublished novels helps us negotiate the battle between feminism and patriarchy.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged battles of the sexes, gender battles, Leaps of Faith, Long Wave, Rachel Kranz Comments closed
Austen’s Mixed Feelings about Gothics
An exploration of Jane Austen’s mixed feelings about the gothic–and about lightweight lit.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, lightweight literature, Mansfield Park, Mysteries of Udolpho, Northanger Abbey, paranoia, Persuasion, Sanditon, Sense and Sensibility Comments closed
Does Lightweight Lit Do Damage?
I look at how thinkers over the centuries have viewed so-called popular or lightweight literature.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Pope, Dunciad, Frankfurt School, Frederick Engels, Herbert Marcuse, Jaws, John Dryden, Karl Marx, lightweight literature, Lovers' Vows, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Percy Shelley, Persuasion, Peter Benchley, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Terry Eagleton, W.E.B. Du Bois, Wayne Booth Comments closed
