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Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey pulls off the difficult feat of being both relentlessly self-reflexive and (on the whole) a genuinely enjoyable read. It is, after all, a commentary on the writing and reading of novels, and more specifically on the … Continue reading →Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb5-2-2013 | Tagged with Austen, britain, irony, literature, northanger abbey

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe’s classic novel Things Fall Apart (1958) is often seen as a riposte to European representations of African life and culture, not least for instance Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, which Achebe memorably described as the work of “a … Continue reading →Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb5-2-2013 | Tagged with Achebe, Africa, indigenism, literature, modernity, postcolonialism, Things Fall Apart

A little rant over here

Hello, So I’ve already done my blogging for this week, but I felt the need to post a little rant, and since it has everything to do with Arts One here it is: I’ve heard multiple comments from my peers … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb4-2013 | Tagged with English, Feminism, literature

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme

Posted in lecture, powerpoint, Remake/Remodel, Repetition Compulsion, Rob Crawford, video | Tagged with Achebe, Africa, anthropology, C20th, colonialism, Conrad, culture, difference, history, Identity, Jon Beasley-Murray, literature, novel, repetition

zombie apocalypses are already happening… and have been for quite awhile apparently

I, unfortunately, am also included in the “zombies” because I completely blanked out and just remembered I have a blog post due today. Well technically yesterday. Whoops. Northanger Abbey is interesting, and I got into it right at the beginning … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb4-2013 | Tagged with Characterization, Classification, Female Figure, history, jane austen, literature, narrative, Shaun of the Dead, Society, Zombies

zombie apocalypses are already happening… and have been for quite awhile apparently

I, unfortunately, am also included in the “zombies” because I completely blanked out and just remembered I have a blog post due today. Well technically yesterday. Whoops. Northanger Abbey is interesting, and I got into it right at the beginning … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb4-2013 | Tagged with Characterization, Classification, Female Figure, history, jane austen, literature, narrative, Shaun of the Dead, Society, Zombies

Antigone

It is not always entirely clear who (if anyone) or what is the tragic hero(ine) in Sophocles’s Antigone, or what exactly is the nature of their tragedy. One might have thought that the tragic figure was the eponymous Antigone herself, … Continue reading →Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb5-2-2013 | Tagged with drama, Jon Beasley-Murray, literature, posthegemony, Sophocles, teaching

Aimé Césaire, The Tragedy of King Christophe, and Derek Walcott, Henri Christophe

Aimé Césaire, The Tragedy of King Christophe, and Derek Walcott, Henri Christophe

Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme

Posted in lecture, powerpoint, Remake/Remodel, video | Tagged with C20th, Caribbean, Césaire, drama, Haiti, Jon Beasley-Murray, literature, Martinique, Melville, postcolonialism, power, ruins, sovereignty, St Lucia, Walcott, writing

Magic is real — The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier

I forgot I had to do a blog post… Sorry! The Kingdom of This World is an interesting novel, and I’m still in the midst of digesting it and trying to get into the “magical realism” of the story. I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb4-2013 | Tagged with Carpentier, Citadelle, Confusion, Haiti, history, Kingdom of This World, literature, Magical Realism, Questions, Revolution, Sans Souci, Slavery

Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of this World

Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of this World

Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme

Posted in lecture, Remake/Remodel, video | Tagged with C20th, Carpentier, Cuba, Haiti, Jon Beasley-Murray, Latin America, literature, narrative, novel, ruins

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