Suggestions that certain classics come with “trigger warnings” leads of the following reflection.
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Tag Archives: Oscar Wilde
Warning Labels for the Classics
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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Portal Fantasies – Nadal Loses, Italy Wins
Judging by the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision and the defeats of Rafael Nadal and the German soccer team, the world passed through a strange portal this past Thursday.
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Why Can’t Mitt Fake Authenticity?
Klaus Mann’s novel “Mephisto” applied to Mitt Romney gives us insight into whether can give a strong presidential performance while being inauthentic.
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Dorian Gray – Guilty of “Corrupting” Youth
By expanding the way the same-sex community saw themselves, “Picture of Dorian Gray” was indeed guilty of the charges brought against it.
The Vital Importance of Being Gay
It is possible to read a gay subtext into Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest.” For one thing, “Earnest” was slang for homosexual in late 19th century England, and a collection of homosexual verse entitled “Love in Earnest” was written by an Oxford classmate of Wilde.