Category Archives: LITERATURE

LITERATURE: McCullers’ The Heart.. – Language

Posted on May 17, 2006 by susan

I love Carson McCullers’ voice in this novel, her easy way of telling what is in the setting, and yet I would cringe a bit at what I see as amateurish, in this case, repetition of a vital word used … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Joyce’s Portrait – Finale

Posted on May 17, 2006 by susan

An interesting technique–or, seeing that this was somewhat biographical I note, honest displaying of thought–in the latter part of the book is revealing of poetical writing as gleaned from the meanderings of the mind rather than concerted effort to write … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Status

Posted on May 17, 2006 by Susan

James Joyce’s Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man – Down to the last twenty-five pages, having gotten stuck on Stephen’s philosophy on beauty and rereading it a couple times over.  Moving on a bit, I sense a return … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Timely Poetics

Posted on May 16, 2006 by Susan

Special thanks to LanguageHat for bringing out this poem in a tribute to its author, Stanley Kunitz (1905 – 2006).  While I do not believe in fate or mapped coincidence, there is an obvious relativity to this poem for me … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Longinus’ On The Sublime – Possibility

Posted on May 16, 2006 by susan

Have been reading just a bit of this online before I decide to "ship now" from Amazon in hard copy form (though I’m rarely in a position where my computer is further than a couple feet from me so just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Joyce’s Portrait – Philosophy

Posted on May 14, 2006 by susan

I’ll be swimming in this pool of thought for a while; Stephen on beauty: The tragic emotion, in fact, is a face looking two ways, towards terror and towards pity, both of which are phases of it.(…)  The feelings excited … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Interview with Dr. Michael Arnzen

Posted on May 14, 2006 by Susan

Just to call your attention to the transcript of an interview by Jeff VanderMeer at VanderWorld with Michael Arnzen, a writer of horror fiction and winner of many awards for his short stories and novels, one of which I reviewed … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: McCarthyism

Posted on May 13, 2006 by susan

No, not that McCarthy, but my man, Cormac of the guts and the blood and the rats. Crof of Writing Fiction just had to know this would stir me up some:  The New York Times has a piece asking: What … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Joyce’s Portrait – Writing Style

Posted on May 12, 2006 by susan

As Stephen matures, there is a natural change in his thinking and character, and from what I understand, James Joyce has indicated this not only by story but by his use of sentence struture and narrative voice.  Let me just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Choices in Philosophy

Posted on May 12, 2006 by susan

Needing philosophy right now, rather than mathematics, history or the sciences although they are related.  From my list I find On The Sublime written by Longinus, Lucretius’ On The Nature of Things, and of course, Augustine.  I surf and scan … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Joyce’s Portrait – Lyric Prose

Posted on May 10, 2006 by susan

Taking into account the period in which this novel was written (1916) there is a time-enforced disassociation with the intensity of emotion with which Stephen is portrayed.  Still, I tend to think of it as a bit too intense to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Learning Genre

Posted on May 9, 2006 by Susan

After Plato’s Phaedo I have been stalling on selecting from the list meant to improve my mind.  Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy I find a use for daily.  It was the book meant to be read at this time in my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Heart is…– POV

Posted on May 8, 2006 by susan

Even when you think you have the point of view thing all worked out–it sounds very simple–it, like tense, doesn’t always come out clean with the rules.  Carson McCullers uses omniscient third person narrator in The Heart is a Lonely … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Heart … – Drama

Posted on May 7, 2006 by susan

Fate (or whatever) led me to pick up this book, and fate made me read today: Mick leaned on the bannisters of the stairs.  The sudden crying had started her with the hiccups.  It seemed to her as she thought … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Character on Character

Posted on May 6, 2006 by susan

Carson McCullers tells a great story.   Mr. Singer, the mute, has lost his longtime friend and is faring well enough on his own, but we are getting a strong sense of loneliness, and McCullers, with the backdrop of a tavern … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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