“Bowulf,” a poem about rage, violence, and the end of empire.
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Can We Be Beowulf Strong?
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Hugo Describes Trump-Style Resentment
The toxic mixture of resentment and entitlement found in the Capitol Hill insurrectionists is described by Victor Hugo in “Les Miserables.”
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Dante on Life beyond Resentment
The envious in Dante’s “Purgatorio” shows that one can move past one’s resentments–important for the Biden administration to know.
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Students as Beowulf vs. Covid
Through describing their essays on “Beowulf,” I recount how five students are responding to the Covid crisis.
“Beowulf” Understands U.S. Violence
Thursday When I launched this blog over 10 years ago, I called it Better Living through Beowulf because Beowulf is the starting text for those of us specializing in British Literature. I used Beowulf to represent all of literature and felt free to write about any literary work that provides insight into the life we […]
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Pelosi, Mueller vs. Grendel Trump
Monday John Stoehr, who edits The Editorial Board, had a provocative column recently that is worth contemplating on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Stoehr argues that sadism is the animating principle of the Republican Party, with Donald Trump being its purest expression. Whether this is in fact true of most Republicans, Trump himself is certainly […]
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The Ugliness of Racial Resentment
“The Merchant of Venice” is a story of resentment and thus is only too relevant in today’s political landscape of inflamed passion. Those who have been victimized–or who feel that they have been victimized–are only too ready to stick it to others when they are in power.
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Dickens Understood Resentment Well
When resentment threatens to hijack our politics, we would do well to turn to Dickens’ “Little Dorrit.”
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