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English One-O-Worst: M. R. James and Count Magnus: What Is This Thing That I Have Done?
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Monday, February 3, 2014. M R James and Count Magnus. What Is This Thing That I Have Done? Count Magnus', first published in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. By M R. James,. The Count' by Rosemary Pardoe. The Blair Witch Project, Rec, Cloverfield, Diary of the Dead, Chronicle,. The Woman in White. And Bram Stoker’s. Exemplified the epistolary novel as a method for making the supernatural seem credible, but James’ approach is consciously much less neat. Whereas. 8220;…But now his face was not there, b...
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English One-O-Worst: November 2011
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Saturday, November 5, 2011. What He Rightly Is: King Lear as King and Man, Parent and Child. The Tragedie of King Lear. By William Shakespeare, 1606. Woodcut illustration for "The Tragedy of King Lear" by Claire Van Vliet. I would you would make use of your good wisdom,. Whereof I know you are fraught, and put away. These dispositions, which of late transport you. From what you rightly are. (1.4.213-17). Of the many themes King Lear. Detail from "Cordelia Disinherited" by John Rogers Herbert. Of all that...
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English One-O-Worst: July 2010
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Monday, July 5, 2010. Impossible Choices: The Moral Tragedy of Phaedra. Haedra', 1677, by Jean Racine (trans. John Cairncross), in. Racine: Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah. Phaedra' by Alexandre Cabanel (1. Responsibility in the tragedy of. Is a Hydra-headed beast. If, as. The immediate drama of. Is fuelled by a common theme in. Jean Racine', by Jean Francois de Troy. Are linked by both weaknesses and rank. Although the characters are mythical, such subjects gave. Scope to observe what. Having served Phaedr...
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English One-O-Worst: June 2009
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Sunday, June 7, 2009. 2 Hawthorne, Puritanism, and The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850. Signet Edition, 1959. Envisions the earliest era of Puritan settlement in New England, presenting an invented narrative. Describes as if it were accounted in an obscure historical document, a tale of folk-inheritance. The ideals and philosophies of that era and its people stand at a remove from. Is haunted by a past forbidding and strict to a modern eye, yet. Disparages his Puritans right back – their ...
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English One-O-Worst: What He Rightly Is: King Lear as King and Man, Parent and Child
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Saturday, November 5, 2011. What He Rightly Is: King Lear as King and Man, Parent and Child. The Tragedie of King Lear. By William Shakespeare, 1606. Woodcut illustration for "The Tragedy of King Lear" by Claire Van Vliet. I would you would make use of your good wisdom,. Whereof I know you are fraught, and put away. These dispositions, which of late transport you. From what you rightly are. (1.4.213-17). Of the many themes King Lear. Detail from "Cordelia Disinherited" by John Rogers Herbert. Of all that...
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English One-O-Worst: July 2011
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Friday, July 15, 2011. Watching the Screw Turn: Henry James, Narrative Ambiguity, and the Battlefield of Interpretation. 8216;The Turn of the Screw’, by Henry James, originally published serially in Colliers Weekly. Edition I read: The Turn of the Screw: A Norton Critical Edition. Henry James, in a 1913 charcoal sketch by John Singer Sargent. Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw. The Turn of the Screw. Takes its name from a metaphor used by the second of three narrators for the tale,. The Turn of t...
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English One-O-Worst: Watching the Screw Turn: Henry James, Narrative Ambiguity, and the Battlefield of Interpretation
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Friday, July 15, 2011. Watching the Screw Turn: Henry James, Narrative Ambiguity, and the Battlefield of Interpretation. 8216;The Turn of the Screw’, by Henry James, originally published serially in Colliers Weekly. Edition I read: The Turn of the Screw: A Norton Critical Edition. Henry James, in a 1913 charcoal sketch by John Singer Sargent. Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw. The Turn of the Screw. Takes its name from a metaphor used by the second of three narrators for the tale,. The Turn of t...
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English One-O-Worst: July 2009
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Monday, July 6, 2009. 3 The Bay of Noon. The Bay of Noon, by Shirley Hazzard, 1970, MacMillan and Co; pictured, Penguin paperback, 1982. Possibly the best living writer born in. Shirley Hazzard was lost long ago to a larger world that saw her finally wash up in. And win the National Book Critics Award for her 1980 novel The Transit of Venus. I first encountered her through her almost mystically sparse, and yet damnably romantic, The Great Fire. 2003), and like that novel, The Bay of Noon. The Bay of Noon.
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English One-O-Worst: May 2010
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Friday, May 28, 2010. Aspiration and Actuality: George Eliot’s Middlemarch. 1872, by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans). Edition I read: Chatto and Windus, 1950. Orothea finds Casaubon dead, from a painting by W. L. Taylor. George Eliot describes a culture and era which was for her, and her original readers, recent and familiar. Although it is a work of Victorian-era artistic conscience,. 8217;s focus is in fact on the epoch immediately preceding. Eorge Eliot, in a sketch by Samuel Lawrence for a lost portrait.
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English One-O-Worst: November 2010
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Friday, November 12, 2010. 1990, by A. S. Byatt, Chatto and Windus. Pictured: first American edition. How well do we know our great artists? Do we do them any favours with our contemporary obsession with biography and life circumstance, in an age in which, ironically, the celebrity of the artist and an industry of grubbing biographers and scholars has reached fever pitch, long after literary theorists had tried to cast biography out the window when it comes to understanding writing? Wracked with guilt an...