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Thoroughly Modern London: 2/3/08 - 2/10/08
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Nick Mazzuca's Blog and Journal of the Modernist London Class. Monday, February 4, 2008. Prufrock and Other Poems. Eliot and Pound had easy, simple excuses for their attacks on Romanticism; they wanted the money. Their quest for pay gave them a profit motive for their assault on their poetic forefathers. Eliot, in his quest to become both a great poet and a great critic, staked his ego on his form. Thus, their reasons are clear. In regarding these early works of Eliot, one can easily identify the three t...
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Thoroughly Modern London: Woolf’s Short Stories
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Nick Mazzuca's Blog and Journal of the Modernist London Class. Monday, February 18, 2008. Woolf’s Short Stories. Or, perhaps, it was merely classist bigotry, as we teased about in class. On the matter of Virginia Woolf’s short stories, one finds a very direct yet light touch with the language – almost as if she had perfected the notion of rumination into an equation and applied it directly to the page. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Woolf’s Short Stories. View my complete profile.
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Thoroughly Modern London: 2/10/08 - 2/17/08
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Nick Mazzuca's Blog and Journal of the Modernist London Class. Monday, February 11, 2008. Concerning the previous class, I heard that the discussion on Prufrock was enlightening. Sadly, my own experience at that time included a dreadful piece of theatre so bad that it called into question my will to live. You may read my review here:. Http:/ nmazzuca.blogspot.com/2008/02/first-nci-actf-2008.html. Interestingly enough, McCarthy is describing not the Post-Impressionists whose standard he bore but the domin...
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Thoroughly Modern London: 3/2/08 - 3/9/08
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Nick Mazzuca's Blog and Journal of the Modernist London Class. Monday, March 3, 2008. Eliot's The Waste Land. Now, onto “The Waste Land,” a poem that one might view as the Hamlet of 20th Century Poetry. Also, one might find some interest in the following link:. Http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime 20080117.shtml. It’s an edition of the BBC’s In Our Time that covers the Fisher King and its influences, including “The Waste Land.”. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Eliots The Waste Land.
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Thoroughly Modern London: 2/17/08 - 2/24/08
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Nick Mazzuca's Blog and Journal of the Modernist London Class. Monday, February 18, 2008. Woolf’s Short Stories. Or, perhaps, it was merely classist bigotry, as we teased about in class. On the matter of Virginia Woolf’s short stories, one finds a very direct yet light touch with the language – almost as if she had perfected the notion of rumination into an equation and applied it directly to the page. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Woolf’s Short Stories. View my complete profile.
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Thoroughly Modern London: Eliot's The Waste Land
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Nick Mazzuca's Blog and Journal of the Modernist London Class. Monday, March 3, 2008. Eliot's The Waste Land. Now, onto “The Waste Land,” a poem that one might view as the Hamlet of 20th Century Poetry. Also, one might find some interest in the following link:. Http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime 20080117.shtml. It’s an edition of the BBC’s In Our Time that covers the Fisher King and its influences, including “The Waste Land.”. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Eliots The Waste Land.
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Thoroughly Modern London: To the Lighthouse
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Nick Mazzuca's Blog and Journal of the Modernist London Class. Monday, April 7, 2008. In reflecting upon the Politics of the Modernists – especially Bloomsbury, I am still struck by the mild, cruel joke that time played on the Woolfs. Situated between the hammer and the anvil, they remained near the shore, bracing for impact. Yet, still, I am perplexed why the remained. Was it a – not romantic – emotionally dependent clinging to their home? It feels like her suicide had roots much further back. Consider:...
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Thoroughly Modern London: 3/30/08 - 4/6/08
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Nick Mazzuca's Blog and Journal of the Modernist London Class. Monday, March 31, 2008. Had Woolf taken a program of study at Cambridge, I wonder which one she would have chosen – the normal or protractedly-paced course. Would she choose to be a lady or a governess? Is there not a chilling, depressive acknowledgment of this at the end of “Fear and Politics” when the elephant proclaims the virtues – the essential security – of captivity? He proposes that the erudite have power, not the forcibly mighty.
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Thoroughly Modern London: 2/24/08 - 3/2/08
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Nick Mazzuca's Blog and Journal of the Modernist London Class. Monday, February 25, 2008. Love is a collection of mutual needs. I am both surprised and unsurprised that two such people of such great needs found each other – one who needed to maintain a delicate order, and the other who needed to order everything. One senses that Mansfield viewed the domestic life as a trap for women, one that would eventually kill them, either spiritually or physically. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Thoroughly Modern London: 1/27/08 - 2/3/08
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Nick Mazzuca's Blog and Journal of the Modernist London Class. Monday, January 28, 2008. Eliot, Pound, and Early Modernist Poetics. 8220;To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.” – Stephen Mallarmé. This leads me to another impression from the readings. If Eliot and Pound profited greatly from their status as poets and opinion makers, then their art and intellectual pursuits become not just practices, but resources – ducats to purchase the ultimate prize, power. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
