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Tag Archives: D.H. Lawrence
trying to find their way home
Its hard to define exactly why the television series Homeland gives rise to such completely opposite sentiments, other than at its base, there is a deep seated and ingrained Christian bias against the Semite in general, and its complementary identity … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrien Henri Tanoux, D.H. Lawrence, Edward Said, Homeland HBO, Homeland television program, Jack Shaheen, Leon Bonnat, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mandy Patinkin, Sheila Murphy, Stuart Hall, Thorstein Veblen
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visceral forms: “what’s inside a girl”
The persistence of the nude. We have had more or less traditional treatment since Marcel Duchamp, followed by Picasso and abstract expressionism rendered her to the scrapheap of history. Lo and behold, she could not be avoided for long. It … Continue reading
something sad, terrific
Nathaniel Hawthorne was ten years away from Brook Farm, the socialist, utopian project, before he wrote the book The Blithedale Romance, from his observations there. By then, the success of The Scarlet Letter had justified his habit of looking at … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Brook Farm, Brook Farm Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Harold Bloom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, Leo Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Nicolas Poussin
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grotesque castaway: permanent alienation
After the success of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the most famous American writers. But in the twelve years following his graduation from college in 1825, he was the most invisible. He went back to his mother’s … Continue reading
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Tagged American literature, Brook Farm, Brook Farm Nathaniel Hawthorne, Byeon Hyeok, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
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scarlet fever of moral torment
Yet for all its gloom and whisper of abominations, The Scarlet letter is among those great tales in which the spectrum of meanings runs unbroken from the clearest daylight into vibrations beyond either visions or rational interpretation. Those who wish … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Bowdoin College, Byeon Hyeok, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Franklin Pierce, Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Lillian Gish, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Puritanism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sigmund Freud
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lust in the shadows behind her: eternal remorse
D.H. Lawrence once described Nathaniel Hawthorne as the man that “knew disagreeable things in his inner soul.” But does it really matter if he gave us The Scarlet Letter? … What gives The Scarlet Letter its bite and terror is … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lillian Gish, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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citizen candy kane: sums of discrepancies
After foisting one over on the low threshold of common sense that characterizes the American public with his radio adaptation of H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds, a kind of national exercise in mass hysteria and trauma that conveyed … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Hopsicker, Dr. Maurice Bernstein, Edward Bernays, Edward R. Murrow, Frank Stanton, Franz Kafka, h.g. wells war of the worlds, Hadley Cantril, Hedda Hopper, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Ivy Lee, louella parsons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Citizen Kane, Walter Lippmann, William Randolph Hearst
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disability lack of assurance
The central disability for most writers of history, as of poetry, drama, and fiction, is probably bewilderment and anxiety in the loss of old landmarks , and the overturn of long-accepted truths. They are stunned by the rapidity, multiplicity, and … Continue reading
daughter of moses
They were depicted as ugly or extremley cultured and beautiful. They were never “average” as so the travel accounts of Jewish women in Ottoman Turkey have come down to us. It is hard to know the basis for this; in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayazid II, bernard lewis, D.H. Lawrence, Edouard Manet, George Sandys, Immanual Aboab, John Evelyn diarist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel Purchas, Sultan Suleyman the magnificent, Thomas Coryate
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