A Wall Street Journal columnist argues that Rousseau is responsible for today’s lost youth. That and not reading classic lit.
Tag Archives: Gustave Flaubert
Austen’s Revolutionary Style
Austen may have innovated a way to blend satire with romance as a way to protect us from heartbreak.
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History’s Arc Bends Towards Kafka
The late Kundera has fascinating insights into how the novel has intersected with history.
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Austen on the Simple Country Life
In the strawberry picking scene in “Emma,” Austen wields her satiric pen to take apart social climber Mrs. Elton.
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Great Literature Shifts Expectations
In which I sum up Reader Reader Response theory as formulated by Hans Robert Jauss, who believes that great lit expands horizon of expectations.
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Flaubert Would Have Had Trump’s Number
“Madame Bovary” gives us insight into why Trump botched the Covid response.
Great Lit Changes Expectations Horizons
Hans Robert Jauss’s believes that great literature changes horizons of expectation whereas lesser lit simply confirms them. If “Madame Bovary” was brought to trial, Jauss says, it is because it charted a new course in literary history that people didn’t understand.
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Fed’s Little Cat Feet, Rafa’s Bullish Force
The Federer and Nadal era may be over. Here they are described in Flaubert, James Patterson, and Carl Sandburg terms.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Fog", Carl Sandburg, James Patterson, Madame Bovary, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Sports, tennis Comments closed
