Tag: shakespeare
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Looking at the language of critical response to the novel, there are parallels. This is not to say that David Foster Wallace cared for Hamlet. But he seemed to care for ontology. The question of what life means and how to bear it in a castle among kings and queens (even murderers) is one thing, but ... Read More
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We didn’t mind Maureen Dowd’s dismantling of (whatever remains of) the mythologizing of Dylan as a hero for/of protest. There was a moment in time when Dylan was hero for protest, but that time has passed mantle to a new moment, one with more lasting power: the one when he’s a hero for poetry. The ... Read More
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If you want to write like Shakespeare the first thing you can do is read Shakespeare. Once you have read it all, you will realize that, while you can never write like him, you are now infinitely better read. And you will have learned something about writing, as well as about your own aspirations to ... Read More
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It’s not all economics, with respect to (the aforementioned) Laureates Sen and Stiglitz. It can be as simple as finding daily rituals. Make the bed. Plant a garden. It’s a start. Gretchen Rubin knows. Rubin’s The Happiness Project was deeply informed by a woman she now considers her “spiritual ... Read More
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Randy Kennedy’s “The Free-Appropriation Writer,” in today’s New York Times Week in Review, considers the ever-sensitive spectrum of borrowing (said another way, flattery; said another way, plagiarism) that has historically informed the creative arts and which, increasingly, possesses a new, valid ... Read More
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If her piece on loss and mourning in this week’s New Yorker is evidence, Meghan’s O’Rourke’s next book may be the most powerful reflection on the topic since The Year of Magical Thinking. Less personal history and more analysis, she considers the question of whether we learned anything from ... Read More
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Who needs proper porn when one can read Chaucer? Both might make us feel good in diverse ways, but assumptions that the afterglow of old poetry is uniquely cerebral are wrong. Joan Acocella's New Yorker piece on Peter Ackroyd's new book, a "retelling" of The Canterbury Tales, makes our mouths water ... Read More
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Think, See, Feel is a blog about the literary arts, and ranges from discussions of the Big Things (ideas) to the Little Things (poems) that inspire us to reflect, react, and keep reading.
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