Went out for a stroll and decided to take a book with me, so I took David Lodge along. I started reading Consciousness and the Novel (2002) in the beginning of the term. I found it in the New Books section of Stockholms Library. Of eleven essays, two I…
Read MoreWent out for a stroll and decided to take a book with me, so I took David Lodge along. I started reading Consciousness and the Novel (2002) in the beginning of the term. I found it in the New Books section of Stockholm’s Library. Of eleven essays,…
Read MoreEminent Victorians
I’ve read thus far in this term several auto/biographies/memoirs from the Victorian period, Edmund Gosse, Robert Graves, Strachey, Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, Oliphant, Autobiography. Ed. Elizabeth Jay, and Virgina Woolf, The Art of…
Read MoreHe talks about being a puritan and a Catholic at the same time, and while he has puritan behavior he is a catholic. The real mother and father of the likes of him, an orphan whose real mother shuns. Brown is understandably a book about the many myths…
Read MoreVirgina Woolf Moments of Being – A sketch of the past
After incubation I came to more conclusions regarding this text. I realized there is a certain conflict here, she seldoms questions the validity of her emotions yet distrust to a degree as to how to proceed and record, as asuch, said emotions. She has…
Read MoreVirgina Woolf Moments of Being – A sketch of the past
Well, apart that I was proud that I could read the text in 4 hours I derived no more pleasure out of that than that. There a few instances were I found great delight in reading her, and that was when she got into a sort of attrition with her father in a…
Read MoreRobert Graves: Goodbye to all that.
Second half of the book. Incredible, I went through the whole book in expectation of some sort of outrage from part of Graves in regards to the title. He just resolved not to return to England without much ado. What a jester. It seems that this…
Read MoreRunning Bit Mark Amerika “… I sort of decided to let quality take care of itself – because how do you decide on the quality of something you don’t understand? …” – Ronald Sukenick This is the kind of conciousness in a text…
Read MoreRobert Graves: Goodbye to all that.
First half of the book. Language is difficult and almost alien to me. It depicts life in England as I never seen it pictured before. Rare names pop up now and then. The military traditions are all told in a manner that makes them look nearly silly. These…
Read MoreText online: babysitter The Jack Derrida version, according to me, since I didn’t find a full integral text anywhere else. Read Coover’s The babysitter online. It smacks of 1950’s, like the show Happy Days. Except that this version is…
Read MoreIncredible, I finished my first e-book, I am now a full member of the cyber world! Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. The book is a myriad of emotions uneasily untangled. One can discern several traces of Plato’s, The Apology…
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