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King Lear as Tragedy
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Brad Skow
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How we get along (1)
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Confessions of a Completist
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On Status and Inequality
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Donald Justice on “Meters and Memory”
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Brad Skow
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Short Notes on Winston Churchill
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“In Moby-Dick, he swallows Shakespeare…”
Three notes on Moby-Dick
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Brad Skow
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Adult Encounters with Children's Stories
In My Side of the Mountain, fourteen-year-old Sam Gribley runs away from New York City to live alone in the Catskill Mountains, where he forages, traps…
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Brad Skow
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"Freaky poetical crypto-zoological musings"
A maimed Nantucket whale-boat captain is driven insane, and to his death, revenging himself upon a giant white sperm whale. Captain and whale alike…
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Kenner on Modernism
A list of great modernist literature needs a story about what modernism was; but modernism, more than your average -ism, defies comprehensive…
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Brad Skow
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Against Feet
A standard line of iambic pentameter is five “feet,” each of which is an “iamb”—an unstressed, then a stressed syllable. Or so says the classical theory…
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Brad Skow
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Music Alone, Music Together, When the Music Does the Talking
On the flip-side of Ziggy Stardust, under the track list and under the credits, reads the exhortation
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