What is your favorite literary feud and why? I dig H. G. Wells vs. Henry James. The latter was into art for art's sake. But Wells wanted to change people's consciousness and thereby change the world....
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What is your favorite literary feud and why? I dig H. G. Wells vs. Henry James. The latter was into art for art's sake. But Wells wanted to change people's consciousness and thereby change the world....
That is obvious, surely.
Metamorphoses translated into English by Stanley Lombardo is a fine work
Divine Comedy translated into English (terza rima) by John Ciardi, surely.
Thank you, sir.
What piece of literary criticism made you understand a work of literature much better and in a new way??? Look, I haven't read tons of literary essays or criticism but I did major in literature in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BefliMlEzZ8&t=111s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUaQgRiJukA&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbgnYcyExgM
I found this on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS_YShPMYdM
Don Delillo agrees by saying:
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. The writer is the man or woman who automatically takes a...
In James Joyce's novel Dedalus says:
"I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use —...
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No bubbles! Amazing !
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pYOVVuO3vRs&list=PL1IIRVPwL5-V1gMquLBmdrdKLzgb_agpO&index=14&t=0s
I use this
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00E9EOPYA/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_1?smid=A2E71RQFAUOIGI&psc=1
For what it is worth: I buy contact paper from Office depot and mylar from Amazon. Amazon sells mylar in 3 different sizes. Even if the mylar you buy is a little too big you can fold the bottom over...
Do you use mylar, like I do, for your hardcover books that have a book jacket???
Do you use contact paper for your paperback books?? I don't cover all my books, just the ones I prize highly.
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I just bought one by Stanley Lombardo. I strongly recommend it.
HAROLD BLOOM DIED SEVERAL DAYS AGO.
His last book is due in a few months.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/books/harold-bloom-dead.amp.html
Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Outlaws of the Marsh
Clockwork Orange
The graveyard scene in Hamlet. Duh ...
One of Sherlock Holmes short stories takes place inside a tomb mausoleum. I have to check what the title is because I don't remember right now.
It has been said many times that litetary critics are frustrated novelists.
I read the one by Horace Gregory. It is very readable and accessible.
Have you guys read Danton's Death by Buchner. It is a great play. Check out this scene where the revolutionary Saint-Just addresses the French Convention
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The bourgeoisie, always blindly empirical, were unable to see the explosive accumulation of subterranean discontent that was quietly gathering force. They were congratulating themselves that no...