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Category Archives: LITERATURE
LITERATURE: Ethan Frome – Character Revealing Characters and Plot
Wharton has employed the technique of changing first person pov to third immediately after an "Introduction" by the narrator and switching to the basic "here’s the story I found out…" to begin Chapter one with a younger Ethan Frome, the … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – One More Thought on Structure
As is my method, after finishing Burgess’ novel I sought further insight via lit reviews online. One thing (among several) I missed was the apparent significance of the musical arrangement style used in many of the phrasings and structure of … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Ethan Frome – Politics via Character
Edith Wharton’s novel begins with the first person narrator describing the protagonist, Ethan Frome, whom she sees at the post office of this small New England town. Since she is not a native, Wharton has the narrator speaking with other … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Next Up – Ethan Frome
Just in the mood for a shorter piece, and one further back in time. Coming off A Clockwork Orange seems to call for a love story, something that focuses on depth of character instead of the the depths of society … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – European Finale
Very strange that the American publisher should want to cut out this final chapter. There is resolution here, and a good one wherein Alex grows weary of his ways and seeks a family and continuity of the life cycle of … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – The American Finale
From what I understand in an introduction by the author, Anthony Burgess, this novel ends at Chapter 20–at least for lily-livered 1961 America. Without knowing what that edited out by the publisher last chapter (21) will bring, let me remark … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Reading Time
Well at last count there are 128 books to read (Books On The Hearth), and 58 books to buy. I have 86 listed as having been read, but that doesn’t account for many that I’ve forgotten about but do not … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Government Control
So Alex has been sensitized to violence. There is an ethical question here of course, as his total feedom of choice has been compromised permanently by the procedure he was subjected to at the prison. Alex does try to go … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Shopping Again
Today’s booty: Odyssey – HomerNostromo – Joseph ConradLord Jim – Joseph ConradThe Complete Short Stories – Guy DeMaupassantPortnoy’s Complaint – Philip RothJailbird – Kurt Vonnegut2001 A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. ClarkeHenderson The Rain King – Saul BellowThe Age of … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Acquisitions
Aside from getting a couple duplicates that I’ll bring back tomorrow, here’s what I picked up in an hour of searching: Travels with Charley – John SteinbeckA Room with a View – E. M. ForsterEthan Frome – Edith WhartonHeart of … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE & REALITY?: Book Buying Spree!
Oh yes, and today’s also my husband’s birthday. Actually, even after sixteen years of marriage, when the presents come down to a set of tires for each other and dinner at the Golden Pagoda, I’m always excited by this date … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Lucretius or Augustine?
Both are on my reading list, both are not the easiest reading, both are available online to start out while I await delivery if ordered. What I’m concerned with here is that my mind is not up to the task … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Social Significance
I don’t believe that Burgess is giving us just the usual youth rebellion, but rather a social comment on a move towards violence through the freedoms granted within a civilized society. Alex, the narrator and bad boy, has turned sly; … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – A Question of Human Nature and of Media
Very interesting section here; Alex is in prison and is going to be allowed out early under a new program of rehabilitation called the "Ludovico’s Technique." Well Alex is of course all for it, oblivious to the warning signs of … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology