A survey of literature through the ages that has dealt with plagues.
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Post of the Year: Plagues in Literature
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A Literary Survey of What Plagues Mean
A survey of how literary authors have grappled for meaning in times of pestilence bolsters our own search. I look at Sophocles, Virgil, Defoe, Porter, Camus, King, Mandel, Atwood, and Erdrich.
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider–in 1918 and Now
Katherine Anne Porter’s novella about the 1918 flu epidemic may give us a glimpse into our own immediate future.
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Mold Causing Problems? Bring in a Ship
Our students, displaced by mold, are being housed in a cruise ship. A campus production of “As You Like It” may have given administrators the idea.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 2000 Leagues under the Sea, As You Like It, Beatles, Education, Herman Melville, Jules Verne, Moby Dick, Mold, Ship of Fools, St. Mary's College of Maryland, William Shakespeare Comments closed
