Literature Archive
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Juliet’s Right Breast and Other Lucky Body Parts
Posted on August 14, 2013All over the world, there are many rituals and customs intended to give a person good luck. These can be anything from encountering natural phenomena (four-leaf clovers, rainbows and falling […] -
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A Punishing World: The Punisher–The Slavers
Posted on August 9, 2013It’s been a while now since general audiences have accepted that comic books, as a medium, can tell worthwhile stories–Maus won its Pulitzer Prize over two decades ago, after all. […] -
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Samuel Beckett: From the Mother to the Womb.
Posted on August 7, 2013It is hard to look at one work of Samuel Beckett without a knowledge of Beckett’s complete oeuvre. One of the elements that comes back time and time again in […] -
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The Trauma of Memory and the Shattering of Time in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse–Five and Chris Marker’s La Jetée
Posted on August 2, 2013Journalist Jeffrey R. Di Leo once asked Kurt Vonnegut about the situation of the world at that time, the mid-eighties. His question was not long and difficult, but infused all […] -
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The Heroic Trinity: Hand, Head and Heart
Posted on July 31, 2013Picture if you will, an alien planet, Earth-like, but with suspiciously styrofoam rocks. A starship officer in a red shirt lies dead. Under a hot sun, Captain James T. Kirk […] -
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Laughter in the Dark: A Cinematic Novel
Posted on July 19, 2013Few will deny Vladimir Nabokov a place among the greats of twentieth century literature. Many casual readers, though, will struggle to mention more than one of his novels. That one, […] -
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The Tragic Plays of Oscar Wilde
Posted on July 15, 2013Apart from his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Oscar Wilde is best known for his comical plays, most notably The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). These plays wittily […]