Reading over the memoirs of my great grandmother, I have been impressed by how reading literature helped her get through the hard times. The authors included Tennyson, George Eliot, Susan Warner, and Charlotte Yonge.
Tag Archives: Oscar Wilde
My Great Grandmother Read for Courage
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Style, Not Truth, the Important Thing
Truth was missing in action in the GOP’s Wednesday night debate. Oscar Wilde and John Gay would have understood.
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Peter Wimsey vs. Oklahoma Executions
With Oklahoma resuming its executions yesterday, we need the reminders that Dorothy Sayers and Oscar Wilde give us about holding on to our humanity.
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Portrait of the Lesbian as a Young Artist
Proust and James Joyce were particularly important in helping Alison Bechdel negotiate her complex relations with her father.
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Comedy & Sentiment, a Potent Mixture
Literature that moves the heart seems opposed to comedy, but sometimes they work together.
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Warning Labels for the Classics
Suggestions that certain classics come with “trigger warnings” leads of the following reflection.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged censorship, Geoffrey Chaucer, Homer, Iliad, Importance of Being Earnest, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wife of Bath Comments closed
Teaching Lit Crit as Autobiography
Literary criticism can be a form of autobiography. Knowing that can improve our teaching.
Lit’s 10 Most Painful Marriage Proposals
Literature 10 most painful marriage proposals.
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Is Mitt Like Hemingway’s Dead Leopard?
Mitt Romney resembles the dead leopard in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” in multiple ways.
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