Shakespeare and Henry James showed up in commentary on this weeks events: the impending government shutdown and the required gathering of 800 military leaders.
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Dems Channel Inner Lady Macbeth
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Government shutdown, Macbeth, Pete Hegseth, Turn of the Screw, U.S. military, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Classics to the Rescue in Dark Times
In Trump’s first 100 days, Jill Lepore turned to 100 classics to survive.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "1914", "Fears in Solitude", "Nightingales Are Drunk", "Nose", "Story of the Bad Little Boy", "With Antecedents", Aesop, Antigone, classic literature, Dante, Eclogue II, Edith Wharton, Figure in the Carpet, Frogs Who Demanded a King, Grimm Brothers, Hafez, Homer, Inferno, Jill Lepore, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Matsuo Basho, Modest Proposal, Nikolai Gogol, Odyssey, Reckoning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Six Servants, Sophocles, Virgil, Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen, Yoshido Kenkō Comments closed
Stream of Consciousness’ Healing Powers
In “Wonderworks” Fletcher explains the therapeutic effects of stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf’s especially.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Angus Fletcher, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Mrs. Dalloway, stream of consciousness, Ulysses, Virginia Woolf, Wonderworks Comments closed
Fani Willis’s Big Baggy Monster
The Georgia Trump indictment is like a “big baggy monster” whereas Jack Smith’s narrower indictment is like a Flaubert novel.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, Donald, Fani Willis, Georgia Trump indictment, January 6 insurrection, Leo Tolstoy, Percy Lubbock, Trump Comments closed
Longing for Consequences
Reading “Washington Square” made me realize how hungry I have been for misbehaving politicians to pay for their bad behavior.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Consequences, Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, January 6 insurrection, Ron DeSantis, Trumpism, Washington Square Comments closed
Getting to Know Henry James
I’m on a Henry James kick and am enthralled with “Daisy Miller” and “Washington Square.”
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Repressed Violence in Southern Gothic Lit
In my course on American Gothic Supernatural lit, I contrasted “Turn of the Scre”w with “Wizard of Oz” and then glanced at Southern Gothic lit.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Deliverance", Edgar Allan Poe, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Good Man Is Hard to Find, Gothic horror, gothic supernatural, In Cold Blood, James Dickey, L. Frank Baum, Petrified Man, Rose for Emily, Southern Gothic, Truman Capote, Turn of the Screw, William Faulkner, Wizard of Oz Comments closed
Imagine Lit Characters in Reality TV
Thursday I came across this enjoyable tweet from one Ross Danniel Bullen, who imagines a Victorian version of the House Hunters television show: Host: I— Henry James: I should like a kitchen whose concept is – how shall I conceive of it – not closed, not in some way occluded, but bright, agape, unrestrained as […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bachelor, Bachelorette, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, House Hunters, Importance of Being Earnest, Jane Austen, Jeopardy, Lost, Oscar Wilde, Pride and Prejudice, reality television, Samuel Beckett, television shows, Waiting for Godot Comments closed
Tess, More Relevant Than Ever
Students find Hardy’s “Tess” to be only too relevant In the age of Trump, Weinstein, and Roy Moore.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Donald Trump, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roy Moore, sexual assault, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy Comments closed
