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2026年9月6日 · ITALO CALVINO,ESSAYS
As Roland Barthes crossed a zebra crossing, a laundry van knocked him flat. Disfigured, Roland...
2026年9月3日 · SHAKESPEARE
In your Shakespeare journey, a line with unusual pauses and Elizabethan words can seem daunting....
2026年9月1日 · AI
Book culture may be at stake. To remain competitive, AI training companies have resorted to old...
2026年8月30日 · SHAKESPEARE
While John Shakespeare (William’s father) lived with a ‘double consciousness’, as Stephen...
2026年8月29日 · POEMS,WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The world is too much with us The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and...
2026年8月27日 · SHAKESPEARE,SONNETS
Hopefully my reading notes may help in your Shakespeare journey. ~ The Portrait of Mr W. H....
2026年8月26日 · SHAKESPEARE,TIMON OF ATHENS
In Timon of Athens, much attention has given to Timon, the eponymous exile; and yet the exile...
2026年8月22日 · ITALO CALVINO,INVISIBLE CITIES
I once made an Instagram reel on this city, Sophronia (https://www.instagram.com/p/DU-3kDUExhJ/...
2026年8月22日 · INVISIBLE CITIES,ITALO CALVINO
Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities tells of the intellectual exchange between Marco Polo and Kublai...
2026年8月20日 · POEMS,EMILY DICKINSON
The poem starts with an unnamed ‘I’ lying dead for ‘Beauty’ in ‘the Tomb’ while the ‘One who died...
2026年8月19日 · POEMS,EMILY DICKINSON
This poem juxtaposes predatory violence and pastoral beauty without arousing unease. The bird in...
2026年8月19日 · EMILY DICKINSON,POEMS
When Helen Vendler suggests that in this poem Dickinson ‘pose[s] the question of the starvation...
2026年8月18日 · RACHEL CARSON,SEA,THE SEA AROUND US
If Rachel Carson has written a secular scientific Genesis with reverence, it seems to me the...
2026年8月16日 · EDWARD SAID,MOBY DICK
Stumbling upon Edward Said’s Reflection on Exile and Other Essays, I intended to read the...
2026年8月16日 · SHAKESPEARE,ELIZABETHAN ERA,FOOD
What did William Shakespeare have for breakfast, lunch, and supper? This question depends on...
2026年8月4日 · WUTHERING HEIGHTS,FAITH CUNNINGHAM
This essay of Cunningham offers us a concrete summary of chapter 12 and an insightful glimspe...
2026年8月4日 · SAMUEL JOHNSON
塞繆爾·約翰遜(Samuel Johnson)是我很喜歡的一個文學人物。他的人設比他的文字來得有趣。令他名聲大噪的,是他編寫的第一本英文字典。但是我在本文想講別的——他的人設。《約翰遜傳》...
2026年8月1日 · SHAKESPEARE,MERCHANT OF VENICE
In The Merchant of Venice, there are two references to music that call Shylock’s humanity into...
《白鯨記》 (Moby Dick),兩千多頁,被哈羅德·布洛姆 (Harold Bloom) 列入美國正典當中 (The American Canon)。非虛構章節,關於鯨魚歷史,詞源的章節,很...
2026年5月2日 · LIT THEORY
Reading about Algeria more or less clears Derrida's linguistic fog. Derrida spent his...
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