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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
trampling on the idea of progress
Is history without meaning, without power and without hope ? … …Even if professionals hold up their hands in horror at the idea of drawing lessons from history, others, far less capable, do not. Toynbee had no hesitation in trampling … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Askew, Arnold Toynbee, Caleb Stegall, Edward Albee, F.R. Leavis, Francis Bacon, Gemalde von Albert Anker, Girolamo da Treviso, Jared Diamond, Lawrwnce H. Keeley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Nicholas Wade, Oswald Spengler, War of Kappel, Zwingli Protestant alliance
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THE CELEBRITY OF COMMODITY: Instant Karma of Possession
” Similarly, when Nike introduced a new shoe line “Air Huarache” and wanted to distinguish its sign from those of other shoe lines, Nike adopted John Lennon’s song “Instant Karma” as a starting point for the shoe’s sign value. Nike … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Leib, Craig McClean, David Reisman, Dwight MacDonald, F.R. Leavis, George Konig, Ian Bogost, John Lennon, John Osborne, John Stratton, Jon Stratton, Karl Marx, Keith Waterhouse, Luc Sante, Mark J. Nelson, Patrick Mignon, Philip Norman, Pierre Bordieu, Robert Goldman, Robert Hilburn, Sean Lennon, Sean O'Hagen Guardian, Stephen Papson, Stuart Hall, Sue Summers, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, Thorstein Veblen, Yoko Ono
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INSTANT GRATIFICATION:Mysterious Strangers of the New Dispensation
“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.” ( J.M. Keynes ) An aristocratic disdain permeated the Bloomsbury group. A contempt for the masses as well as the bourgeois. They were … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Marshall, Alfred Stieglitz, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel S. Lieber, David Garnett, David Ricardo, Desmond MacCarthy, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Elvis Presley, F.R. Leavis, Friedrich A. Hayek, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.E. Moore, Georges Seurat, Getrude Himmelfarb, Jack Goncalo, Jenny Tucker, John Maynard Keynes, Leon Edel, Leonard Wolf, Lionel Trilling, Lytton Strachey, Mark Twain, Noel Annon, Paul Krugman, Paul Samuelson, Richard P. Smith, Richard Smith Dollar ReDe$ign project, Robert Skildesky, Roger Fry, Shannon Proudfoot, Sir Roy Harrod, Thomas Arnold, Thomas Paine, Virginia Woolf, Zach Ammerman
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JANE AUSTEN: SMALL WORLDS & STRONG PASSIONS
The desires of Jane Austen were large and complicated. At the social level, she wanted liberty to state views, no matter whom she offended as well as exposing the orthodoxies of her time.She chose her enemies with care and analyzed … Continue reading
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Tagged Alistair M. Duckworth, Anne Hathaway, Billie Piper, Claudia Johnson, D.C. Measham, D.W. Harding, D.W. Hardy, D.W. Winnicott, David Lodge, Deborah Moggach, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Jenkins, F.R. Leavis, Fay Weldon, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Jessica Benjamin, John Wiltshire, Jon Spence, Kate Gordon, Keith Oatley, Leo Tolstoy, Lionel Trilling, Margaret Drabble, Marilyn Butler, Marivaux, Mark Twain, Martin Amis, Michael Kellner, Monica Lawlor, Pamela Mooman, Richard W. Noland, Robert B. Cialdini, Robert P. Irvine, Robert William Buss, Sam Leith, Sandie Byrne, Susannah Carson, Trilling, Virginia Woolf, Voltaire, William James Dawson
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JANE AUSTEN: ESSENTIAL AMBIGUITIES OF THE HEART
…and iron butterflies in the soul. Which “Belle du Jour” to rattle the ghosts in the cage of moral sentiments. Maybe men should get off the couch and take the trouble to find out instead of making virtue out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Billie Piper, Catherine Deneuve, Claudia Johnson, D.W. Harding, David Lodge, Edouard Manet, Elizabeth Jenkins, F.R. Leavis, George Lewes, Horace Walpole, Howard Jacobson, Ian Watt, Inger Signun Brodey, Irene Collins, J.S. Clarke, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Jon Spence, Judy Dench, Lionel Trilling, Luis Bunuel, Margaret Drabble, Marilyn Butler, Michael Kellner, Monica Lawlor, Monteiro Belisa, Nancy Butler Jane Austen, Pamela Mooman, Paula Byrne, R.W. Chapman, Robert Morrison, Sir Walter Scott, Sonny Liew, Vladimir Nabokov
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TRUTH AS COMEDY: FIDDLER ON JANE AUSTEN’S ROOF
Some critics describe Jane Austen’s works as novels of social comedy. When she wrote Pride and Prejudice she was just twenty-one years old. Her literary life was comprised between 1786 and 1817. A characteristic for the eighteenth century was the … Continue reading
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JANE AUSTEN & REGULATED HATRED : Humility and Ruthlessness
“… There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them… they were neither of them quite enough in love to think that three hundred and fifty pounds a year would supply them with the comforts … Continue reading
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Tagged Abi Ryan, Alexander Pope, Ben H. Winters, Claudia Jeanette Lockhart, Claudia L. Johnson, D.C. Measham, D.W. Harding, David Lodge, David M. Buss, Edgar Allan Poe, F.R. Leavis, Fanny Burney, Heather Jackson, James Gillray, Jane Austen, Kate Gordon, Kathryn Duncan, Maja Djikic, Mary Brunton, Michael J. Stasio, Nathalie Portman, P.D. James, Richard W. Noland, Robert B. Cialdini, Robert P. Irvine, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Seth Grahame-Smith, Shakespeare, Thomas Rowlandson, Wilkie Collins, William Hogarth, Zoe Brennan
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