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Arthur Miller, The Crucible

Arthur Miller, The Crucible

Video from the lectures by Robert Crawford and Derek Gladwin for the Repetition Compulsion theme, March 2015.

Posted in Derek Gladwin, lecture, powerpoint, Repetition Compulsion, Rob Crawford, video | Tagged with allegory, Arthur Miller, C20th, cold war, drama, HUAC, Joseph McCarthy, miller, the crucible, tragedy, witch hunt

My Thoughts on Antigone

After somehow managing to get through The Republic, I was under the impression that I would never again have so many questions about a single piece of writing. As usual, I was wrong. Looking back on Sophocles’ Antigone, I realize that there are many little things that confuse me now that I seem not to have noticed […]

Posted in blogs, lb4-2014 | Tagged with Antigone, Confusion, On the Readings, Sophocles, tragedy

Sophocles, Antigone

Sophocles, Antigone

Video of lecture by Robert Crawford for the “Remake/Remodel” theme

Posted in lecture, Remake/Remodel, Rob Crawford, video | Tagged with Classics, drama, Greece, Sophocles, theatre, tragedy

Camus, repetition, and the pains, graces, and distractions of consciousness

Here is Albert Camus on Sisyphus in 1942: “the gods. . . thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.” This, as Jill Fellows pointed out in her discussion of Camus is … Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb5-2013 | Tagged with Camus, consciousness, ideology, reading, repetition, tragedy

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