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Heart of Darkness
Can high school students and—yes—even university students, understand Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness? Here is a masterpiece borne from the mind of a man for whom indigenous cultures and Western civ… more →
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Saddling up for a ride with American Western literature
wrote 1 week ago: I haven’t taken much time to read for the enjoyment of reading in the past couple of months. I’ve be … more →
Heart of Darkness
wrote 1 month ago: Can high school students and—yes—even university students, understand Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkn … more →
You're a mean one, Mr Grendel
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wrote 1 month ago: Let’s face it: there’s nothing new. We create only by standing on the shoulders of gian … more →
Life of Pi: A Fable
wrote 1 month ago: The Canada Council of the Arts has a long history of supporting “Canadian” work, but it may have bee … more →
Elie Wiesel’s Night
wrote 1 month ago: Elie Wiesel’s Night is a poignant cry in the night, a record of a nightmare, and, ultimately, a work … more →
Shakespeare, Or, How to Destroy an Elizabethan Idol
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wrote 2 months ago: Voltaire and Tolstoy condemned Shakespeare’s works on moral grounds, Nietzsche did so on aesthetic g … more →
Kafka
wrote 6 months ago: What if Kafka was right, what if Max Brod should have heeded the following deathbed request: “ … more →
James Joyce
wrote 6 months ago: Why read Ulysses or Finnegan’s Wake? As a fan of both books, as someone who still finds some amuseme … more →
Poe
wrote 6 months ago: While we are right to see the causes of personal tragedies in the tragic shortcomings of the greater … more →
Phaedra by Jean Racine
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wrote 7 months ago: Phèdre (originally Phèdre et Hippolyte) is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine ve … more →
The Rape of the Lock
wrote 7 months ago: The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anon … more →
Neoclassicism
wrote 7 months ago: Neoclassicim (1660-1798) After the Renaissance came a reaction in the direction of order and restrai … more →
From Ancient Greek Drama
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wrote 8 months ago: Ancient Greek tragedy is a lost world to me. I cannot feel its anguish. In fact, I honestly sense so … more →
Chekov's Proposal
wrote 8 months ago: Chekov’s “The Proposal” is a good example of how a master writer promoted the liberal values of his … more →
Huckleberry Finn
wrote 8 months ago: In Huckleberry Finn we have the soul of America’s fears and — especially — its des … more →
Existentialism
wrote 11 months ago: Existentialism 101 Existentialism is a philosophical movement which posits that individuals create t … more →
Expressionism
wrote 11 months ago: Poetry “Glance and flash” by Wassiliy Kandinsky “To a wounded Frenchman” by … more →
In Debt to Atwood
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wrote 1 year ago: From a review of Margaret Atwood’s book “Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, at … more →
The Iliad by Homer, Translated by Samuel Butler
wrote 1 year ago: Any rating of “The Iliad” has to be primarily a rating of the translation, not of the wo … more →
