Tag: World literature
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More Literary Runaway Lovers: Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed and the Birth of the Modern Italian Novel
“Dear readers, all twenty-five of you, imagine the impression the meeting with the two bravi must have made on the poor man!” – The Betrothed, Chapter 1 I’m arguably running a week behind schedule here because last week the other lady of the house and I were in Las Vegas trying to dip our toes…
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Canada Emptor: Susanna Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush and the Early Immigrant Literature of the Great White North
“Home! The word had ceased to belong to my present it was doomed to live for ever in the past; for what emigrant ever regarded the country of his exile as his home?” – Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush (Chapter II) As I’ve mentioned a few times, I spent the overwhelming bulk of…
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Archetype and Innovation: The Little Clay Cart and Classical Indian Theatre
“The rapacious greed of prostitutes robbed you of everything. No age has heard of a prostitute wanting to have compassion on another or to spare the passions which in a certain way they are able to consume.” – Fulco of Deuil to Peter Abelard (12th century CE) “Such a woman, the jewel of our city,…
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Dream Girls: The Jinling Beauties and the Many Illusions of Dream of the Red Chamber
The office jack’s career is blighted, The rich man’s fortune now all vanished, The kind with life have been requited, The cruel exemplarily punished; The one who owed a life is dead, The tears one owed have all been shed. Wrongs suffered have the wrongs done expiated; The couplings and the sundering were fated. Untimely…
Sarah Holz 