After a year of intense grieving, I immersed myself in a book I was writing: “Better Living through Beowulf.”
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Tag Archives: Jane Austen
Reflections on the Nature of Satire
In which I sort out my mixed feelings about satire.
“Better Living” Emerged from a Midnight Epiphany
In the latest installment of “A Life Lived in Literature,” I recount the origins of “Better Living through Beowulf.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Pope, Benjamin Franklin, blogging, Daniel Defoe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Chaucer, Great Gatsby, Poor Richard’s Almanack, Pride and Prejudice, Rape of the Lock, Robinson Crusoe, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wife of Bath Comments closed
Why Emma Is My Favorite Austen Novel
Why “Emma” is my favorite Austen novel. It all has to do with Mrs. Elton, Emma’s double.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged doubles, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility Comments closed
Early Scenes from a Marriage
My memoir continued, this time looking at my relationship with Julia during our grad school years in Atlanta.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "River Merchant's Wife", Anna Karenina, Country Wife, Ezra Pound, Leo Tolstoy, Marriage, Pride and Prejudice, William Wycherley Comments closed
Trump as Mrs. Elton and Ozymandias
Trump’s vulgar tarting up of the White House brings to mind Mrs. Elton’s lack of class in “Emma.” And then there’s his resemblance to Ozymandias.
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An Iranian Hostage Recalls Tolstoy
In which one of the 1980 Iranian hostages explains why “War and Peace” meant so much to him at the time.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Emma, George Eliot, Homer, Iliad, Iranian hostage crisis, Leo Tolstoy, Life and Fate, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Vasily Grossman, War and Peace Comments closed
Austen: Romance without Words
Jane Austen never directly reports a protagonist saying “yes” to a marriage proposal. For Valentine’s Day, I explore why.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Emma, love, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Valentine's Day Comments closed
Our Round of Austen-Like Visitations
Julia and I spent the last week in a series of visits such as one encounters in Jane Austen novels.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Emma, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, tea drinking Comments closed