Lily Bart, Bertha Mason, Achilles, Ishmael and Queequeg all go on vacation. Where do they go?
Tag Archives: Herman Melville
Lily, Achilles, Bertha & Ishmael on Vacation
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charlotte Bronte, Homer, House of Mirth, Iliad, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, vacations, Wharton (Edith) Comments closed
Political Consultants Should Read Lit
Which literary works would you recommend to a political consultant to stay in touch with his or her soul and avoid becoming lost in the dark side? How about Hawthorne, Melville, Shakespeare, Pinter, and Terrence McNally?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Antony and Cleopatra, Confidence Man, Harold Pinter, King Lear, Macbeth, Moby Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, political consultants, politics, Scarlet Letter, Terrence McNally, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Whitman, Melville & Abolitionism
Walt Whitman and Herman Melville’s revolutionary visions of egalitarian societies shaped how Abolitionists thought about America’s potential.
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An Ideal Place to Study Lit
A summer institute where one buries oneself in books is my version of James Hilton’s Shangri-La.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Business, continuing education, James Hilton, Lost Horizon, Moby Dick Comments closed
Benito Cereno on War, Racism
A story of two students who found themselves using “Benito Cereno” to sort through two of the biggest issues that Americans face.
Beards Win Big–Melville Would Approve
Herman Melville would have approved of the Boston Red Sox and the beards.
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Lit’s Ten Most Sensitive Guys
To match my 10 strongest literary women characters, here are my 10 most sensitive male characters.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, Cormac McCarthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry Fielding, James Baldwin, Jane Austen, John Milton, John Steinbeck Comments closed
