Monthly Archives: January 2010

…goes slightly against my thesis presentation criteria – discovery of common denominators in the first ten pages of selected fictional novels I have not read, which have achieved a solid degree of mainstream recognition where the book or the author has stood the test of time, such as it is (say that three times, fast, with quiche in your mouth!). Continue reading →

Elaine Showalter, in her preface to the 1997 Ecco Paperback edition commented, “Today, even those who have never read the book, and never seen the play or film, use March’s image of the “bad seed” as a proverbial term for an evil child.” Continue reading →

In a more hard-core version, the film of “Song of the Loon” would have been called “Song of the Loins.” Continue reading →

I originally read these first ten pages standing in the aisle at Powell’s, thinking that I could take notes and remember enough to write my blog post later. Continue reading →

WAS HAMLET GAY? Continue reading →

Brendan Behan was a poet and a playwright whose material came mostly from the incarcerated periods of his life as well as his connection to the Irish Republican Army. Continue reading →

Duh. An aging portrait in the attic. Continue reading →

The first ten pages BREATHING LESSONS focuses more on character and character set up than on location or setting. Continue reading →

In the first ten pages of LIVE AND LET DIE there are at least two dozen references to Atomic War, bombs, spies, agents, secrets and the need to defend “ourselves”. Continue reading →

LORD JIM so goes against the theory I presented in my previous blog…. Continue reading →