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perfide manon: peace with the “petit collet”
Perfide Manon and Abbe Prevost. She was the classic cocotte, and he the classic dupe; first the Abbe wrote his famous story, and then he set out to live it… …Prevost ventured back to France, and there was joined by … Continue reading
hunger artists: culture of starvers
Is the act of eating that of conformity, compliance, acceptance and complicity? And its opposite, starvation, often as a public and publicized act, a metaphor for protest? That is, the denial and rejection of food is a metaphor for intolerable … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Moore starvation artist, apollonia schreiert, Franz Kafka, Irish Hunger Strike of 1981, Mahatma Ghandi, MK Aryeh Eldad, MK Danny Danon, MK Yaakov Katz, Netanyahu government, Samuel Richardson, Samuel Richardson Clarissa, Sarah Jacob Welsh fasting girl, Sigmund Freud, Ulpana Beit El, William Butler Yeats, Yehuda Weinstein, Yesha Council Chairman Danny Dayan
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DISTURBING THE RHYTHM OF COMEDY
Epic deception. And arriving at the altar with a faint pulse.That was the view of Sarah Fielding, author and sister of Henry Fielding. The epic notion of the “great end” enters the comic novel as the marriage that sanctifies the culture … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pettit, Alexander Pope, Austin Dobson, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Delavier Manley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, G.M. Godden, Godden, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johann Zoffany, John Trusler, Lady Mary Chudleigh, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Matthew Wickham, Nancy Armstrong, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ros Ballaster, Sally Feldman, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Thomas Gainsborough, Voltaire, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth, Zoffany
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PREOCCUPIED WITH GOODNESS: Almost Forgivable Appetites For Life
Tom Jones was perpetually in delicate situations. As Henry Fielding remarked in one of his digressions,” It is not enough that your designs, nay, that your actions are intrinsically good; you must take care that they appear so.” Tom was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pettit, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Brian McCrea, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, Daniel Defoe, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Ian Hislop, James Gillray, John Collet, John Trusler, Larry Laban, Laurence Stern, Laurence Sterne, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Oliver Goldsmith, Rev. John Trusler, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Sally Feldman, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Fielding, Simon Varey, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Gray, Thomas R. Cleary, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth
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LURKING DISASTERS THAT AWAIT ALL GOOD MEN
Peter Pumpkinhead came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the vatican what gold’s for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees Hooray … Continue reading
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Tagged C.J. Rawson, Cervantes, Claude Rawson, Francisco Goya, G.M. Godden, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, James Gillray, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Mary Vidal, Oliver Goldsmith, Pablo Picasso, Paul Baines, Richard Dorment, Robert Walpole, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Thomas Gray, Thomas Rowlandson, Titian Venus of Urbino, William Makepiece Thackeray, William Shenstone
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HENRY FIELDING :LONDON CALLING & POETIC FAITH
London calling to the faraway towns Now war is declared – and battle come down London calling to the underworld Come out of the cupboard,you boys and girls London calling, now don’t look to us Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Alexander Welsh, Aphra Behn, Brian McCrea, Claude Rawson, David Garrick, G.M. Godden, Gay, George Bernard Shaw, Horace Walpole, John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Larry Laban, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Ralph Allen Bath, Robert Walpole, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Simon Varey, Thomas R. Cleary, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth, William Makepiece Thackeray
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HIS MUSE HAD SUNG THE LOUDEST IN TAVERN CHORUSES
By the publication of Tom Jones in 1749, Henry Fielding had asserted that the idealized, morally beyond reproach hero is no longer a viable character in literature. The idea of perfectibility was replaced by human flaw and redemption. Secondly, Fielding … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Alpha Ben, Daniel Defoe, Edmund Fielding, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Laurence Stern, Laurence Sterne, Manfred Weidhorn, Ralph Allen, Ralph Allen Bath, Robert Walpole, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Thomas R. Cleary, William Hogarth
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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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Tagged Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Dickens, Duncan Quinn, E. Derek Taylor, Ellen Moody, George Butte, George Eliot, Hans Baldung, Heather Carroll, Henry Fuseli, James Boswell, Jane Austen, Jane Collier, Jocelyn Harris, John Stevenson, John William Waterhouse, Jolene Zigarovich, Jonathan Swift, kathryn Steele, Leslie Stephen, Lisa Zunshine, Margaret D. Carroll, Mary Davys, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Saskia Wickham, Sean Beam, Sean Bean, Sigmund Freud, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov
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A DIRGE ABOUT A ROCK AND HARD PLACE
The English novel is a phenomenon that only took form in the early years of the 18th century, and is generally attributed to Daniel Defoe. Prior to this time, stories were told either in dramatic form on the stage, or … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Jung, Carol Flyn, Daniel Defoe, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, English literature, George Butte, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Jane Austen, Jane Collier, Jocelyn Harris, Lisa Zunshine, Paul Woodruff, Samuel Richardson, Samuel Richardson Clarissa, Sarah Fielding, Saskia Wickham, Sean Beam, Sir Thomas Roe, Sir Walter Scott
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