GUEST BLOG—Death in Venice: What Price Metamorphosis? by Tom Jones
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human […]
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GUEST BLOG—Beauty’s Vivifying Force by Betty Ann Jordan
“Beauty comes to us, with no work of our own; then leaves us prepared to undergo a giant labour.” —
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GUEST BLOG—The Deliciously Dark World of Film Noir by David Schmitt
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
GUEST BLOG—The Changing Fortunes of Shakespeare’s Kings by Gary Schoepfel
The wheel of Fortune turns; I go down, demeaned; another is carried to the height; far too high up sits
GUEST BLOG—Oedipus: An Identity Crisis by Zoë Eisenman
“Who are you?” – the Caterpillar, Alice in Wonderland “And you may ask yourself, Am I right? Or am I
GUEST BLOG—Feeling at Home with Ulysses by Michael Groden
At home. Mentioning Ulysses might conjure up a range of associations – important, classic, difficult, even unreadable – but “at
GUEST BLOG—Five Reasons to Read Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend by Nancy Carr
Dickens’s last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, is one of his most complex and ambitious works. It includes everything you’d
GUEST BLOG—The Truth of Myth by Stuart Patterson
We’ve just passed into autumn. Depending on where you are, you’ll be seeing familiar changes sooner or later—shorter days, chillier
GUEST BLOG—Truth in Storytelling with Don Whitfield
Last week on my way to the office—after an early morning foray into the part of Homer’s Odyssey where Odysseus
GUEST BLOG—Taking on the Big Questions With Two Titans of Russian Literaure
By Julia Zarankin I am very excited about returning to Classical Pursuits and leading a discussion seminar on Tolstoy and