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Criticism & Theory

Postmodernism is dead

August 21, 2011 John Flood

Postmodernism is dead it seems – but what is/was it? Postmodernism is dead | Prospect Magazine.

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What’s a Metaphor For?

August 1, 2011 John Flood

Identifying a metaphor is something a first year student should be able to do without any difficulty. But what do metaphors do?

What’s a Metaphor For?

Criticism & Theory

Where Have All the Girls Gone? Is this a post-feminist era?

August 1, 2011 John Flood

‘How did more than 160 million women go missing from Asia? The simple answer is sex selection — typically, an ultrasound scan followed by an abortion if the fetus turns out to be female — but beyond that, the reasons for a gap half the size of the U.S. population are not widely understood.’

via Where Have All the Girls Gone? – By Mara Hvistendahl | Foreign Policy.

Early Modern Culture

Shakespeare Quarterly – Hamlet

August 1, 2011 John Flood

Special edition on Hamlet. Access with RUG library passwords.

Project MUSE – Shakespeare Quarterly – Volume 62, Number 2, Summer 2011.

Early Modern Culture

Fools in Tudor times

July 31, 2011 John Flood

This article argues that Tudor fools (including those who feature prominently in Shakespeare’s plays) were people with learning disabilities. It raises some interesting points but needs further investigation.

All the King’s Fools | History Today.

Criticism & Theory

Critical Theory: Marx, modern French philosophy

June 21, 2011 John Flood

Marx was no more responsible for the monstrous oppression of the communist world than Jesus was responsible for the Inquisition via In Praise of Marx.

French Philosophy: ‘The theories of Derrida and Foucault are revisited in this fair-minded history of French deconstructionism, and guess what? It wasn’t all bunkum…’ (book review).

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Daybreak Gray and Dim: Whitman & the Civil War

June 21, 2011 John Flood

HUMANITIES Magazine: January/February 2011: Daybreak Gray and Dim.

Literature (General)

Rose Symbolism

June 21, 2011 John Flood

The rose is examined in some detail in Pleasures of the Text. Now someone has written a whole book on the subject. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7175082.ece

Literature (General)

The King James Bible (1611)

June 21, 2011 John Flood

This translation was one of the most influential on English literature.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7171739.ece

Literature (General)

Frankenstein: 10 possible meanings

June 21, 2011 John Flood

Frankenstein: 10 possible meanings.

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