Arthur Miller, The Crucible
Video from the lectures by Robert Crawford and Derek Gladwin for the Repetition Compulsion theme, March 2015.
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 […]
Sophocles, Antigone
Video of lecture by Robert Crawford for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
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 →