Echoes of Eliot and Conrad in Levi’s Hollow Men
“This is the way the world ends (x3)… not with a bang but a whimper.” There’s something profoundly unsettling in the notion that something as dramatic as the end of the world could manifest as a fizzle. Some … Continue reading
Echoes of Eliot and Conrad in Levi’s Hollow Men
“This is the way the world ends (x3)… not with a bang but a whimper.” There’s something profoundly unsettling in the notion that something as dramatic as the end of the world could manifest as a fizzle. Some … Continue reading
Bugged by Kafka?
Morrissey once asked: “has the world changed or have I changed?” Were Gregor to pose this question, the answer would hardly keep us in suspense. And yet he barely notices his mutation, rather like the early scenes in Shawn of … Continue reading
Bugged by Kafka?
Morrissey once asked: “has the world changed or have I changed?” Were Gregor to pose this question, the answer would hardly keep us in suspense. And yet he barely notices his mutation, rather like the early scenes in Shawn of … Continue reading
Kafka and Gilman: First Impressions
To have a better sense of what Gilman’s narrator was experiencing during “The Yellow Wallpaper”, I went to a local coffee shop that had yellow walls and read the text there. After reading the story, I’m no longer sure if … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Kafka and Gilman: First Impressions
To have a better sense of what Gilman’s narrator was experiencing during “The Yellow Wallpaper”, I went to a local coffee shop that had yellow walls and read the text there. After reading the story, I’m no longer sure if … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Mad women? from Attica to Attic
The title for this brief post is a bit cryptic and inspired by my reaction to Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and the way in which this story appears to continue a literary tradition of connecting strong females with madness, one … Continue reading
Mad women? from Attica to Attic
The title for this brief post is a bit cryptic and inspired by my reaction to Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and the way in which this story appears to continue a literary tradition of connecting strong females with madness, one … Continue reading
Unreal City: Is the Waste Land a place?
To what extent is the Waste Land spatial, historical, and real? London strikes me as an “Unreal City” in a couple of (possibly) useful ways for coming at the poem. The City of London is actually only slightly bigger than … Continue reading
Unreal City: Is the Waste Land a place?
To what extent is the Waste Land spatial, historical, and real? London strikes me as an “Unreal City” in a couple of (possibly) useful ways for coming at the poem. The City of London is actually only slightly bigger than … Continue reading