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September | 2014 | The Victorian Sage
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About The Victorian Sage. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Month: September, 2014. September 26, 2014. Watching Sherlock Holmes “The Master Blackmailer” (1992): Seduction and Guilt. The Best of Sherlock Holmes. Wordsworth, 2009). Rather than the standard 50-minute episode, they apportioned it a feature-length 100 minutes. How to make a 20-page story last 100 minutes? To create viewer engagement – principally in long shots that subordinate narrative progression to the vis...
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November | 2014 | The Victorian Sage
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About The Victorian Sage. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Month: November, 2014. November 30, 2014. Should this remain so when the methodological approach has taken over almost every field of knowledge? November 14, 2014. In the day before yesterday’s post. The Promise and Premise of Creativity: Why Comparative Literature Matters. What is the difference between what used to be called “Pulp Fiction” and literature? Eoyang’s second point is not apparently related to the f...
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The Sage and the Man of Letters | The Victorian Sage
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About The Victorian Sage. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. The Sage and the Man of Letters. In Victorian England, the class of person we would probably call a public intellectual went by other names. Two such names were Sage and Man of Letters. Both of these terms are, of course, heavily associated with Thomas Carlyle. John Holloway’s study. I’ve been reading Terry Eagleton’s. The Function of Criticism. 1984), and he attempts a distinction. The Sage, he says,. R]epresents [...
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August | 2015 | The Victorian Sage
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About The Victorian Sage. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Month: August, 2015. August 31, 2015. A Cultural Role of Power, Comfort and Gratification. When it comes to Thomas Carlyle, perhaps it could be argued that the form and content of his writing is in itself less interesting and less worthy of study than the. In Norma Clarke’s “Strenuous Idleness: Thomas Carlyle and the man of letters as hero”. Francis Ford Coppola’s main source for the film – apart from John ...But this ...
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John Ruskin’s Traffic in Penguin Little Black Classics | The Victorian Sage
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About The Victorian Sage. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. John Ruskin’s Traffic in Penguin Little Black Classics. In celebration of their 80. Birthday, Penguin have introduced 80 short volumes (55-ish pages each) on sale for 80p in England or one Euro here in Ireland in a range called Little Black Classics. It’s somewhat of a best that has been thought and said ( Arnold. According to a sales ranking I think I saw somewhere (but I can’t find it now), the. 1969), wherein his wo...
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April | 2015 | SeventhChronicle
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My Thoughts and Musings. April 27, 2015. April 27, 2015. This is possibly the coolest/most exciting thing I have read in a while, time to geek out. Some scientists believe they may be knocking of the door of creating something akin to the warp drives (or hyperdrives, depending on your taste) of science fiction. As described by IFLScience (Link is here. April 23, 2015. Now, back on point, how would most logical people attempt to tackle this unruly list of requirements? But what is that? Lets have a think:.
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March | 2014 | SeventhChronicle
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My Thoughts and Musings. The Last Three Years. March 30, 2014. June 10, 2015. It is not important that my journey is understood, it is after all my journey. The last three years have been turbulent, if not conflicted. But that is far from a bad thing. Fundamentally, my challenge has very much been insular. The spectres that haunted me were hidden within myself; a level of depression and anxiety I was unaware of until I began to question myself. My First Week of Training. Jellybeanqueen: A TEFL blog.
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My First Week of Training | SeventhChronicle
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My Thoughts and Musings. My First Week of Training. May 27, 2015. May 27, 2015. Teaching is like nothing I have ever experienced before. This simple statement became the over-riding theme of my first week of training. The building housing said Head Office. Like a duck to some very murky water. PMA, keep those positive vibes. Don’t let them smell your fear. But yes, it’s been a positive experience, which I am awfully glad about, the idea of working in a job you despise or detest for a year would be ...
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