![]() ![]() Less than a hundred years after Shakespeare wrote the play, in the 1680s, King Lear was given a rather dramatic (as it were) rewrite by the Poet Laureate, Nahum Tate. Thematically, these various strands work together to reinforce the play’s central concern with madness and reason, blindness and seeing.Īnd Shakespeare cleverly sets up the characters as doubles, opposites, and complements: as Harold Bloom notes in a persuasive analysis of King Lear (in his book Shakespeare: The Invention Of The Human), in a play where so many of the major characters speak to each other at some point, it was canny of Shakespeare never to have Lear and Edmund speak a word to each other throughout the entire play, because they are complete antitheses: where Lear is all feeling, Edmund is ‘ice-cold’ and emotionless. Part of the artistic triumph of the play is the way Shakespeare brings all of these apparent contradictions together to create a piece of compelling drama that is moving without being sentimental, despairing but also illuminating. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is my first book by Jeffrey Eugenides. That’s just what Middlesex feels to me right now. ![]() You know that no matter what you write you will not do justice to the great book you have just finished reading. ![]() You find the right words to describe it and you don’t know where to start. You and I know when we read a gem of a book. Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns her into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. ![]() So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of 1967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Point, Michigan. “I was born twice: first as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.” Surprising in many levels let’s start with the blurb: Is it the name of a location? Or a tongue-in-cheek for the main hermaphrodite character? As I soon found out that the title meant both and also a very complex and it is clever book too. The book sat on my shelf for 2.5 years unread with that provocative book title staring at me. ![]() ![]() When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Shirley Jackson's chilling tales of creeping unease and casual cruelty have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other. ![]() ![]() The Bird's Nest is a macabre journey into who we are, and how close we sometimes come to the brink of madness. As a tormented Elizabeth becomes two people, then three, then four, each wilder and more wicked than the last, a battle of wills threatens to destroy the girl and all who surround her. But soon she starts to behave in ways she can neither control nor understand, to the increasing horror of her doctor, and the humiliation of her self-centred aunt. ![]() The unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle.Įlizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no friends, no parents, and a job that leaves her strangely unnoticed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Omenana Press, Roxbury, MA.įu-Kiau, Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki 1991 Self-Healing Power and Therapy: Old Teachings from Africa. O.N.R.D., Kinshasa, Zaire.įu-Kiau, Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki 1985 The Mbongi: An African Traditional Political Institution. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.įu-Kiau, Kimbwandènde Kia Bunseki 1969 Cosmogonie Kongo (Kongo cosmogony). ![]() 2007 Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.įennell, Christopher C. ![]() ![]() In I, Too, Am America: Archaeological Studies of African-American Life, Theresa. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.įerguson, Leland 1999 The Cross is a Magic Sign: Marks on Eighteenth-Century Bowls from South Carolina. De Boeck, Paris, France.įerguson, Leland 1992 Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America. éditions Kathala pour CILTADE Louvain, Paris, France.įaik-Nzuji, Clementine 2000 Art Africains: Signes et Symbols (African art: signs and symbols). Indiana University Press, Bloomington.įaik-Nzuji, Clementine 1992 Symboles Graphique en Afrique Noire (Graphic symbols in black Africa). Rinehart, New York, NY.īockie, Simon 1993 Death and the Invisible Powers: The World of Kongo Belief. Bennett, John 1946 Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folktales of Old Charleston. ![]() |