There weren’t many English Literature courses that my university offered that didn’t excite me, but ‘Satire and The Novel’ was definitely one of them. For some reason unbeknownst to me, I chose this course as one of my three choices for the first semester of my second year at university and after the first lecture, […]
Author: lambnolion
The Versatile Blogger Award
Hello! I’m pretty new to this blogging thing and I’m so grateful to Lavrax for nominating me for The Versatile Blogger Award! If you’re not already following her blog, you should be! She’s one of the most supportive women and inspiring bloggers I’ve come across and I’m thankful to have met her. The Rules! Thank the person […]
Word and Action in ‘Titus Andronicus’
In my last post (part one of this discussion), I talked about the delicate balance between word and action that must be persevered in Shakespeare’s narrative poem, ‘The Rape of Lucrece’. This post will be concerned with Shakespeare’s bloody play, Titus Andronicus, and the role that rhetoric and action play in that text. Shakespeare does something […]
Word and Action in Shakespeare’s ‘The Rape of Lucrece’
The two things that I find most compelling in William Shakespeare’s work are his use of language, his rhetoric that is at once beautiful, captivating and often heartbreaking, and the violence that permeates so many of his texts. Today I’d like to discuss exactly that: word and action in two of my favourite works by […]
Bloom as Joyce’s Odysseus
A quick Google search of ‘Ulysses by James Joyce’ will bring back over seven million results and the headlines of the two top articles give a better summary of Joyce’s novel than I ever could. The first reads, ‘Why you should read this book – James Joyce’s Ulysses’; the second, ‘Is James Joyce’s Ulysses the […]
Eliot, Dante and Undoing
Literary critic, I. A. Richards wrote that T.S. Eliot’s 1922 poem, ‘The Waste Land’ described the state of modern, post-war life as one that was suffering from a ‘sense of desolation, of uncertainty, of futility, of the groundlessness of aspirations, of the vanity of endeavor, and a thirst for life-giving water which seems suddenly to […]
Lamb, No Lion 