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darwin: missing links on those facts
…Huxley made the famous retort, in response to Bishop Wilberforce’s gibe, that he would prefer to have an ape for a grandfather than a man “possessed of great means and influence” who used his influence to bring an important scientific … Continue reading
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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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AESTHETIC OF ILLNESS: "THIS MONSTER, THIS BODY"
Alix Strachey, a practising psychoanalyst and an old friend of the Woolfs, discussing why Leonard had not persuaded Virginia to see a psychoanalyst about her mental breakdowns, concluded ‘Virginia’s imagination, apart from her artistic creativeness, was so interwoven with her … Continue reading
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Tagged Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, Hermione Lee, Hogarth Press, James Joyce, James Strachey, Jane Elizabeth Fisher, Julia Briggs, Leonard Woolf, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leslie Stephen, Lisa Kerr, Lytton Strachey, Panthea Reid, Richard Burton, Roger Fry, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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GEOMETRY OF LOVE: The Square Root of Living in Fractions
“Virginia and Vanessa, despite their occasional differences, had an unbreakable bond of love and support. Hermione Lee expounds at length about their dysfunctional childhood which undoubtedly acted as an indissolvable glue in their relationship. But as for the rest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice K. Miller, Alice Miller, Amy King, Bertrand Russell, Beth Hale, Bloomsbury Group, Clive Bell, Diana Russell, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keynes, Judith Herman, Katie Mitchell, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Lisa Borges-Giramonti, Lydia Lopokova, Lytton Strachey, Maurice de Vlaminck, Nicole Kidman, Pablo Picasso, Stephen Daldry, Thoby Stephen, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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GAZING AT THE COLD SLOW TERRORS OF THE WORLD
Yet who reads to bring about an end however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practice because they are good in themselves, and some pleasures that are final? And is not this among them? I have sometimes dreamt, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Miller, Arthur Symons, Bloomsbury Group, Brian A. Oard, Clive Bell, Diego Velasquez, Dora Carrington, E.M. Forster, Edouard Manet, Elisa Kay Spark, George Duckworth, George Frederick Watts, Harold Bloom, Kate Hext, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Lorraine Sim, Meryl Streep, Miriam Roth, Nicole Kidman, Noel Carrington, Oscar Wilde, Quentin Bell, Ralph Partridge, Rembrandt, Roger Fry, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Daldry, Susannah Carson, Thoby Stephen, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Walter Pater
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BLOOD FLOWERS & HEADS ON THE DOOR
A genre of fiction which first gained popularity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the epistolary novel is a form in which most or all of the plot is advanced by the letters or journal entries of one or more … Continue reading
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