English Literature

Channeling Nico in Silverlake

Wendy Block | Posted 04.25.2012

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Wendy Block

If you wandered into the Bootleg Theater in Silverlake last Thursday night just before 9, you would have seen about 50 mostly middle-aged people sitting at bar tables laughing and drinking, interrupted suddenly by six musicians.

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The Bible's Role in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

Michael Gilmour | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Gospels, Jesus Parables, Oliver Twist, Gospel of Matthew, Biblical Interpretation, English Literature, Novels, Charles Dickens, Victorian Literature, Religion News
Michael Gilmour

I found myself thinking about an aspect of Dickens easily overshadowed.. I refer to his subtle use of biblical literature.

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The Mr. Darcy Industry

Alan Elsner | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: English Literature, Mr. Darcy, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Arts News
Alan Elsner

Jane Austen was smart. She left the characters just where they needed to be left, with their lives ahead of them. Whatever good and bad those lives would bring, she left to our imagination.

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'Read' Shakespeare In Minutes? CliffsNotes Films Makes It Happen

Posted 12.28.2011

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We've all been there before -- 10th grade English teacher assigns reading homework for the night, and it's a third of William Shakespeare's The Traged...

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Show Me the Sex

Suzanne Morrison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sex, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Postmodernism, Wuthering Heights, English Literature, The Real Housewives, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, Victorian Literature, Christmas Novels, Christmas Books, Christmas Literature, Books News
Suzanne Morrison

Christmas is the time for 19th century novels, especially of the English variety. I've always hated them. The Brits, I decided at 13, were frustrated, neutered people. I didn't want to visit England, for fear my genitals would wither and harden like a dried pomegranate.

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How a Beefeater and a Tortoise Captured America's Attention

Julia Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

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Julia Stuart

In all my escapist reveries I never imagined the amazing response that my second novel, The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise would receive in America.

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Edward Cullen and Rochester, or: Why We Need to Cut Stephenie Meyer Some Slack Already

Ming Holden | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ming Holden

I, for one, wasn't as annoyed at the worldwide popularity of a story like Twilight as much as worried. Bella's is not the worldview I want young girls across the planet to have.

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J.D. Salinger's Teaching Advice

Nicolaus Mills | Posted 11.17.2011

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Nicolaus Mills

UVA literature professor Mark Edmundson wants students to have the pleasure and excitement of immersing themselves in a book before engaging in a skeptical dialogue about it.

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