Tag: feminist novels
member name: Jesse BC
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December 22, 2006 03:27 PM EST --
If you're American, you may have a little trouble finding it. Thus far, the publisher has only distributed it in London and Sydney. You might have to contact the publisher directly or check the international . . . more
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January 30, 2007 11:33 PM EST --
After we read Ralph Waldo Emerson in class, I wrote "My Philosophy of Life," which I intended for the start of a book but could only get three pages out of it. Mrs. Henry said I needed to live . . . more
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February 22, 2007 03:12 PM EST --
The snake has at last swallowed its own tail and postmodern fiction has found a defining moment. Literature found postmodernism in 1961 with Thomas Pynchon’s novel, V, and is characterized . . . more
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December 29, 2006 02:24 AM EST --
Nor stranger seem’d that hearts
So gentle, so employ’d, should close in love
Than when two dewdrops on the petal shake
To the same sweet air, and tremble deeper down
And slip at once, all fragrant, . . . more
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April 18, 2007 05:48 AM EDT --
My picks for the best of 2005
10) Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial, 2002)
This novel about Latin American revolutionaries who take hostages during a party for the Japanese Prime . . . more
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June 27, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
My best picks for 2006
9) Punk Marketing: Get Off Your Ass and Join the Revolution by Richard Laermer and Mark Simmons (Collins, anticipated publication March 2007)
Half how-to manual, half radical . . . more
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January 02, 2007 04:45 AM EST --
In the 156 years since its publication, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre has been a source of controversy – first, over its suitability for and, later, its portrayal of women. When it first emerged . . . more
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January 24, 2007 07:38 AM EST --
Books abound that are written for children but enjoyed by adults. Roald Dahl. EL Konigsburg. JK Rowling. But Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (Beacon Press, 1979) is historical science fiction written . . . more
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December 30, 2006 05:45 AM EST --
Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin’
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She’s my virgin suicide
From a song by the fictional rock band Cruel Crux, comes . . . more
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May 24, 2007 06:09 AM EDT --
Between the dark and the daylight,
When night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
That is known as the children's hour.
A whisper and then a silence,
Yet . . . more
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