January 2012
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New Media, Spring 2012 →
December 2011
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Keeping a Student Portfolio →
June 2010
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The Lessons of Titus →
The Epic Hero →
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“If religion is supposed to be a repository of a certain kind of truth,...”
– Salman Rushdie
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“A tragedy is a story of human actions producing exceptional calamity leading to...”
– A.C. Bradley, “The Substance of Shakespearean Tragedy” (1904) from HumX.
May 2010
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You Can’t Go Home Again →
Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Some Notes →
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“Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Satire →
Satire is an ironic literary creation detailing the defeat of decency and virtue and the triumph of folly or vice. The work may utilize any literary form — either fictional or nonfictional — relying heavily upon parody, paradox, and anti-climax, and is usually infused with wit and high spirits. […]
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“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest...”
– Leo Tolstoy
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Debussy - “Claire de Lune.” It’s...
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“There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay...”
– Norman Mailer
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Patriarchal Terrorism in Medea →
While I have always been aware of the iconoclasm of Euripides’ Medea, I was struck even more by it this read through and the moral implications of the play’s status as a tragedy. Is Medea a tragedy? While it does contain many aspects of an Aristotelean tragedy, it seems to […]
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