As a child who grew up immersed in fantasy fiction, I knew, as deeply as I knew anything, that these books put me in touch with something that was deep and true. As I grew up, of course, I learned that I had to move beyond fantasy just as I had to move beyond childhood. […]
Last week, while discussing “The Tempest,” we experienced a literal tempest. Expect cold temperatures today as I’m teaching “Eve of St. Agnes.”
“The Tempest” fits magically into a fantasy course.
This wonderful Dacey poem about skating captures the other self we feel is just beyond the horizon–or beneath the ice.
In his senior project, one of my students uses literature to examine life and literature to engage with it.
Tomorrow’s Super Bowl drama may be forces of order vs. forces of chaos. Or it may involve Denver trying to outwit a trickster Puck-like team.
A recent Wall Street Journal column is attempting to revive the 1990s culture wars over literature.
Chris Christie has resorting to plausible deniability such as that discussed in Shakespeare’s “Richard II” and “Antony and Cleopatra.”
