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I've had teachers who used Lacan a lot, and not always with great results - sometimes you end up feeling that all books are saying the same thing about the "nom/non du père" (name/no of the father)...

Yep. And he described miners in Women in Love as well.

Interesting, thank you. I didn't know all that. And yes, you're right about time periods - there are always overlaps and composers who are hard to categorize.

Another representative of Romanticism...

I'd say Debussy was an impressionist, actually. When I first listened to him, that was the movement that came to my mind, and a piano teacher of mine confirmed it. I don't know if everyone uses that...

Ha ha, I love the last choices on your poll, Virgil!! :p

It's not very sexy to see a man cry... I had a boyfriend who cried a little too easily and believe me, it was a definite turnoff... That...

Ooops! Sorry! :blush: There are quite vivid city descriptions in Toni Morrison's Jazz (a few passages about how the city makes black newcomers forget their roots, in particular), in Ellison's...

Difficult. Funnily enough, I can remember far more vivid city descriptions in 19th century novels... The first that came to mind for the 20th was Ulysses, actually. I suppose Dubliners could work as...

The male characters are as weak as them, if you except Richmond - viz. the idiotic Hastings, the cowardly Stanley, the weak Clarence, the idealistic Edward (who should really know better!) or the...

Sorry, I'd missed your question before. To answer your question (I think I wasn't very clear the first time around), I just meant (rather vacuously :p ) that syllabic verse is now less congenial to...

Read the rest of your post, which is pretty conclusive (even if I still think Rochester is made out to be a baddy until his redemption :p ), but I would quibble with the above: the morals of a...

Kiki, I'm as usual very impressed by everything you say, and cannot even really comment upon it, as there are TOO MANY ideas in it! :p I think I will have to read it yet again, but your...

Why not.. Your interpretation is interesting and I hadn't thought of the problem in such a way. I saw his showering of Jane with presents and especially dresses as a (subconscious?) way to make up...

It's an enjoyable book - for children! Who needs it to be well written?

Not a country, but I would love to live in Berlin some day. It's full of culture, but seems human-sized, and I like the big park in the middle whose name I've forgotten... and all the relics from the...

Don't be sorry! Your poem is very melodious (Verlaine influence, maybe? have you read his poems?), and I just wanted to help out with the French bits.



je mange pas is not slang, it's laziness...

I agree with your third paragraph, and think it's true that it is easier for a woman in the 19th century to defend the cause of women than the cause of blacks. On that subject, by the way, while i do...

Hmm, if you read the novel carefully, though, you do come to realize that there is something about foreign women that Jane (and probably Bronte) didn't like much. Consider also the fact that all the...

Maybe because they needed, not only to prove the greatness of their nation, but to establish their nation as something more than an ex(tra) European colony? If I remember well, there was a drive at...

I'm with Kiki here: Rochester is not in the least portrayed as a compassionate man - he even links the belief in "sympathy", something Jane goes by, to some sort of superstition. Hiding Bertha in an...

Kiki, I have come to a conclusion about you: you are impossibly cultivated. :p
I have a question about the beginning of your first post:



What Wheat defines as "real" resembles the Platonic...

Baudelaire, in high school, and then in college, followed by his fellow poets from the 19th and early 20th centuries. English-language poetry much later on - I used to find it less beautiful, but now...

Oh yes, she's disturbing enough! I've read Lust, as well as another one by her, and her writing is often shocking stuff. I wonder whether she isn't a little bit disturbed, actually.

Very pretty. But it should be "veux-tu chanter" in the second stanza.

I haven't read Julius Caesar, but isn't iambic pentameter considered as the noble verse? Shouldn't it give more weight and authority - maybe traditional, old-fashioned authority - to what Marc...

There's no reason why an aesthetic understanding a novel should preclude a religious one. For me, both dimensions are present, and both your interpretations just as worthwhile.

Thanks for pointing...