I talked about this book briefly when I first read it over a year ago, but after recently giving it a second look, I thought it deserved a little bit more attention. Friedrich de la Motte Fouque is a name pretty much forgotten in today’s literary scene; information about him, especially critical treatment of his [...]
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Pitches, man, Pitches
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, cultural theory, literature, little big, pride and prejudice, publishing, the magic ring, ulysses, watership down, writing on June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been thinking a lot about the business side of writing lately; of course, like any devoted ex-Liberal Arts major, I can’t but think any business of art a crude and unfortunate evil that causes my first-year poetry students–with the utmost of solemnity–to define Great Literature as *ahem* “whatever makes the most money.” Of course, [...]
Watership Down
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, fairy tales, gender issues, watership down, richard adams, 2666, roberto bolano, animal farm, pride and prejudice and zombies, anansi boys, g. k. chesterton, the private life of the rabbit, political theory, children's literature, myth on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Finishing a truly great book causes such a contradiction in feeling that I don’t believe there’s anything else quite like it. Sad that it’s over, and happy it’s complete, and filled with the calm of any genuinely mind-bending experience but in a really fidgety way like you just need to talk to everyone about it [...]
Wind in the Door
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, horace walpole, madeleine l'engle, wind in the door on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Horace Walpole once said, “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.” Appropriately enough, I was introduced to this quotation while studying Shakespeare in high school…and it seemed very true at the time. I even wrote it down in the happy face notebook where I kept my [...]
Academia and “The Place of the Lion”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, charles williams, religion, school, truth on June 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been meaning to post about the summer term and some of the issues it’s provoked in regards to academia and what my place is in it (if indeed I have one) but I just got a huge shipment of books in, so that hasn’t happened yet.
The short version is that I am coming to [...]
