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The N WORD and HUCK fiNN: When the Revolution Comes
Politically correct. Civilized. Lynchings and catfish and the more “dangerous” notions of interracial sex.”How could a black revolutionary ever be sure that white radicals would not return to the fold of white racism.” …IS the road to racism, a separate … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, Amin Sharif, Eldridge Cleaver, Ernest Hemingway, Gil Scott-Heron, Huckleberry Finn, James Baldwin, Lionel Trilling, Mark Twain, Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, Roger Ebert, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, The Last Poets, William Faulkner, William Klein
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HOT LIPS: Holy Grail of the Flirt
“Can I have your picture so I can show Santa what I want for Christmas?” …First buy an ice cream and find a hot girl, then say “I’m sorry to bother you, but your melting my ice cream!” …”What do … Continue reading
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Tagged David Copeland, David Givens Love Signals, Duane Morin, Harvey Kurtzman, Jo Hemmings, Kit Eaton, Lloyd Price Badoo, Michael Cunningham, Robert Paul Reyes, Ron Louis, Shakespeare, Will Elder
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CELESTIAL TINKERING: IF IT AIN'T BROKEN DON'T FIX IT
Today, it is difficult for us to believe that as recently as the time of Shakespeare no one knew that other world’s existed. Though the Greeks had surmised it, there was no direct proof until the invention of the telescope … Continue reading
AVOIDING THOSE PERIPHERAL REGIONS OF ROMANCE
Call it a poetic faith whose satisfying sense of wonder compelled them to stop short of that marvellous and enticing flame of Promethean enchantment. Heros zigzagging with tolerable chance. “…in the preface to Tom Jones , Fielding formally asserted his belief … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian McCrea, Byron, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, Coleridge, Fanny Burney, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Henry Fuseli, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Flaxman, John Trusler, Larry Laban, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Peter Jan de Voogd, Rev. John Trusler, Richard Hurd, Richard Nordquist, Robin Bates, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Fielding, Shakespeare, Simon Stein, Simon Varey, Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Thomas R. Cleary, Tobias Smollet, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth, William Makepiece Thackeray
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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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Tagged Adam Rann, Andre Gide, Andrew Motion, Anne Hathaway, Audrey Bilger, Ben H. Winters, Caryl Churchill, Catherine Dean, Charles Lamb, Charlotte Bronte, Claire Harman, Colin Firth, Daniel Defoe, David Hirsch, David Lodge, Dominique Enright, Elsemarie Maletzke, Emma Thompson, F.R. Leavis, Fanny Burney, Felix Feneon, Fielding, Goldwin Smith, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Howard Jacobson, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Leslie Stephen, Lionel Trilling, Maria Edgeworth, Michael Kellner, Michael Thomas Ford, Moliere, Monteiro Belisa, Pamela Mooman, Philip Roth, Richard Simpson, Robert Morrison, Rudyard Kipling, Sam Leith, Sandie Byrne, Sarah Lyall, Seth Grahame-Smith, Shakespeare, Stephane Mallarme, Thackeray, Thomas Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Wayne Josephson, William Hogarth, William James Dawson
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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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TROPICS OF THE MIND: Forgotten Memories of an Ancestral Darkness
His is the simple and yet incredible story of an unworldly petit bourgeois who painted in an introverted, almost autistic manner. He himself cannot have been fully aware of what he was doing; he did not distinguish between his pictures … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Arsene Alexandre, Asperger Syndrome, Camille Pissarro, Charles Baudelaire, Cindy Sherman, Claude Monet, Cornelia Stabenow, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Edmond Frank, Elena L. Grigorenko, Emile Zola, Fernand Leger, Gerhard Richter, Graham Greene, Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Rousseau, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Henry Certigny, Jackson Pollock, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jill Fell, Joseph Brummer, Kate Bush, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Nancy Pinard, Odilon Redon, Pam Rosenthal, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Klee, Paul Verlaine, Pierre Loti, Richard Jinman, Richard Powers, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Salvador dali, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Wilhelm Uhde
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THE BEARDED LADY: Don’t Tug Too Hard On The Bard’s Beard
Ghost writing in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Why would a man whose works portray well-educated, proto-feminist women raise his own daughter as illiterates as Shakespeare did? Amelia Bassano, on the other hand, made feminist history when she became the first English woman to … Continue reading
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