Many readers have they anxiety that they haven’t read all the books they should have. Bibliotherapists claim that they can offer relief.
Tag Archives: Virginia Woolf
Prescribing Lit for What Ails Us
I had mixed feelings about a recent article in “The New Yorker” on bibliotherapy.
How to View Prejudice in the Classics
How to handle instances of prejudice in the classics? Let the values battles fly.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged D. H. Lawrence, Dion Boucicault, Heidi, Johanna Spyri, John Milton, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Octoroon, Paradise Lost, Prejudice, Rabelais, racism, Sexism, To the Lighthouse Comments closed
An Ideal Mother
When I think of a mother-son relationship that most matches my own, I think of Betsy Trotwood and David Copperfield.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Everything that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor, mothers and sons, Oedipus, Parenting, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Sophocles, To the Lighthouse Comments closed
The End of the World As We Know It?
A number of poets have written poems about the apocalypse. But it’s always figurative, never literal.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Hellas", "Second Coming", "Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse", Alexander Pope, Apocalyptic literature, Between the Acts, Dunciad, Matthew Arnold, Mayan Apocalypse, William Butler Yeats Comments closed
Quiz: Identify These Famous Figures
Two wonderfully light poems give readers a chance to test their knowledge of cultural history.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Albert Einstein, Bloomsbury group, Connie Bensley, Gertrude Stein, Humor, Jacob Epstein, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell Comments closed
