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Comment on Waiting for Godot–Samuel Beckett by What if a Malone Died and No One Cared – A Noble Theme

What if a Malone Died and No One Cared – A Noble Theme — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:30:36 +0000

[...] infuriates me about Beckett, both in Godot and in Malone, is the very intentional manner in which he proclaims the utter pointlessness of [...]

Comment on Calamitous Catastrophe in The Castle of Otranto by Something Borrowed by Byron – A Noble Theme

Something Borrowed by Byron – A Noble Theme — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:03:39 +0000

[...] just read and written about Walpole’s Castle of Otranto sent me to this piece of Byron, a work I hadn’t read since Professor Shannon’s British [...]

Comment on The Battle in the Trenches with Dos Passos by An Earlier Battle in Newer Trenches – A Noble Theme

An Earlier Battle in Newer Trenches – A Noble Theme — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:10:20 +0000

[...] John Dos Passos delivered Three Soldiers, discussed in the previous posting, he honed his collage technique with One Man’s Initiation, 1917. In this brief novel, we [...]

Comment on Rebel without a Clue: Saramago on Cain by Slaves to Logic Need Not Apply: Saramago’s The Stone Raft – A Noble Theme

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:35:13 +0000

[...] made my way through Cain, it seemed fair to read another of Jose Saramago’s works before dismissing him as being [...]

Comment on Maybe It Was the Olive: What Made Franny Collapse? by When Zooey Stepped out of the Bathtub – A Noble Theme

When Zooey Stepped out of the Bathtub – A Noble Theme — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:21:05 +0000

[...] just looked into the brief account of Franny Glass’ troubled trip to visit her boyfriend, we can now look at the aftermath of that Saturday. In the much longer portion of Franny and [...]

Comment on When Zooey Stepped out of the Bathtub by Maybe It Was the Olive: What Made Franny Collapse? – A Noble Theme

Maybe It Was the Olive: What Made Franny Collapse? – A Noble Theme — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:19:14 +0000

[...] We’ll look more closely at this when I get around to completing the study of this volume in “When Zooey Stepped out of the Bath.“ [...]

Comment on Neighbor Rosicky–Willa Cather by Paul’s Case–Willa Cather – A Noble Theme

Paul’s Case–Willa Cather – A Noble Theme — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:34:57 +0000

[...] anthologized of Willa Cather’s short fiction is “Paul’s Case.” Quite unlike “Neighbor Rosicky,” written a quarter century later, “Paul’s Case” tells the story of a young man who [...]

Comment on The Hamlet–William Faulkner by The Town–William Faulkner – A Noble Theme

The Town–William Faulkner – A Noble Theme — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:46:32 +0000

[...] noted in a previous post, teaching “Barn Burning” took me into the depths of Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy. [...]