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March 31, 2015

Shallow Sargasso Sea

March 31, 2015/ Rohan Maitzen

Can you improve on a classic? A new novel retells George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda — but much more is lost than gained in the attempt.

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Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, charlotte bronte, fiction, George Eliot, J-M- Coetzee, Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys, literary criticism, March 2015, rohan maitzen
April 30, 2014

Title Menu: 8 books where bad decisions make good protagonists

April 30, 2014/ Kathleen Rooney

Characters never go wrong when their poor life choices make for fascinating reading. Kathleen Rooney supplies us with eight unmissable examples.

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April 30, 2014/ Kathleen Rooney/
Features, Fiction, Literary Criticism
Edith Wharton, fiction, Jean Rhys, Kathleen Rooney, literary criticism, Margaret Atwood, May 2014
December 31, 2013

No Picnic

December 31, 2013/ Daniel Green

To literary scholar Laura Frost, the great 20th century modernists created readerly pleasures not through familiar comforts but by transforming difficulty and strangeness into something exciting and new. Daniel Green tests the theory.

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December 31, 2013/ Daniel Green/
Fiction, Politics & History
Aldous Huxley, Book Review, d-h- lawrence, Daniel Green, fiction, James Joyce, January 2014, Jean Rhys, Lionel Trilling, Ulysses
May 31, 2011

Oh, the futility! Adapting Jane Eyre

May 31, 2011/ Miriam Elizabeth Burstein

Its early readers found the novel shocking, unfeminine, un-Christian, revolutionary. So why are film adaptations of Jane Eyre so studiously inoffensive?

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May 31, 2011/ Miriam Elizabeth Burstein/
Fiction
Byron, charlotte bronte, fiction, Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys, June 2011
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