Category Archives: LITERATURE

LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: A Clockwork Orange – Special Effects

Posted on November 11, 2006 by susan

Have you noticed that you can take a picture of your kitchen or whatever room when it’s in particularly bad shape–in the middle of pie-baking with flour dust everywhere, or like my living room with the book stacks–and yet it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: A Clockwork Orange – Details

Posted on November 10, 2006 by susan

Watched a bit more of the film, and immediately felt better about something that had bothered me in the book–nitpicky close reader that I am (or, if I missed it, inept close reader, blah, blah). When Alex is in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & NEW (?) MEDIA: A Clockwork Orange – The Movie

Posted on November 10, 2006 by susan

Finally got a chance to viddy the first half of Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange this afternoon.  Real horrorshow stuff.  I’m finding that I really don’t remember seeing it, and I’m wondering if I was spaced out back in ’71 because … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: And Anti-Literature Advertising

Posted on November 5, 2006 by Susan

The new Toys’R’Us ad:  "Mommy, read us a book!" say the kiddies, jumping up and down on their beds until mom, pleased with the request by her kiddies, brings out a book and the three settle down to read and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Pleasure of the Text – Roland Barthes

Posted on November 5, 2006 by susan

While I haven’t given up on Barthes’ S/Z, I picked this second essay up to perhaps approach Barthes from a different angle.  Pleasure. Of course, Topic of Cancer was also in this package.  Do you think that maybe I’m having … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: No Country – Setting

Posted on November 5, 2006 by susan

Where he reached the river it made a broad sweep out of a canyon and carried down past great stands of carrizo cane.  Downriver it washed up against a rock bluff and then bore away to the south.  Darkness deep … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Chekov

Posted on November 4, 2006 by susan

Oh man.  I was just in the mood for an old classic short story.  Had been reading constantly through some of those in the PBW Challenge and needed the old.  Read Chopin and one other, then a favorite, Chekov.  Misery.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: No Country for Old Men – Tension and Timeline

Posted on November 4, 2006 by susan

McCarthy is a master at piqueing your interest right from the opening line: I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Hunstsville.  One and only one.  (p. 3) This is an intro in first person pov from a sheriff.  Within … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Online Shopping, or The Curse of the Amazon

Posted on November 4, 2006 by Susan

I’m not even going to tell you what I did beyond pressing that "Go to Checkout" button.  But I’ve moved items around between my "Books to Buy" and "Books on the Hearth" lists and I’m heartily ashamed of myself for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Ethan Frome – Finale

Posted on November 3, 2006 by susan

Despite my trepidation at seeming less than enthusiastic about what has been listed as classic literature, I’ve got some issues with Edith Wharton’s novel. One thing that I’ve mentioned here already is the inability to rouse my sympathies for Ethan … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: No Country for Old Men and Ethan Frome – POV Technique

Posted on November 2, 2006 by susan

Oddly enough, though this is likely the first time I’m concurrently reading two novels, the two I’ve chosen start out in first person pov as an introduction, then switch to third to begin the main body of the book.  Edith … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Ethan Frome – Backstory and Structure

Posted on November 1, 2006 by susan

With the introduction prior to chapter one we are being told by a first person narrator about a man named Ethan Frome.  In Chapter one, we are into third person (removed?) because the first person narrator from the intro has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Ethan Frome – Details

Posted on November 1, 2006 by susan

Sometimes our writerly approach to reading can cause some confusion with the author’s intent.  In starting Ethan’s story, he was described as a young man.  Yet his wife seemed awfully crabby and sickly for that age.  I suspected she was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Reading: No Country for Old Men

Posted on October 31, 2006 by susan

Couldn’t stay away from it, with it’s shades of red cover, crisp white lettering, faded silhouette of a running man…and of course, McCarthy’s like a Willie-fantasy for the literary part of my brain.  So No Country for Old Men will … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Ethan Frome – Character Empathy

Posted on October 31, 2006 by susan

It’s impossible for me to point to particular selections or passages from this novel to illustrate my point, but I’m losing a bit of empathy for the main character, Ethan Frome.  Intrigued by him in the narrator’s introduction as a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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