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Wilson Knight’s Chart of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Universe
G. Wilson Knight was a mid-century critic probably most known for an infamous little essay on Hamlet he wrote in 1930 called “The Embassy of Death” (collected in The Wheel of Fire). The essay ...
James Joyce: The Difference Between Portrait and Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Well, one difference, as explained by A. Walton Litz in the pretty good book The Art of James Joyce: A process of selectivity harmonizes with his early notion of the ‘epiphany’, which assumes that it ...
Finnegans Wake: A Short Guide to Readable Books about James Joyce’s Unreadable Book
A certain article which I won’t mention reminded me that I should update my reader’s guide to reader’s guides to Finnegans Wake, since there are a lot of people out there who’d like to read ...
The Waste of Spirit in an Expense of Shame
I see Steve Mitchelmore of This Space has called this blog a pile of shit. (I let his Twitter trackback through.) A few years back it probably would have stung me rather sharply, but now ...
One Line from Hamlet
When Stephen spins an elaborate yarn in Ulysses about Hamlet, Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s father and son, and all manner of other things, a yarn that has a little to do with Shakespeare and a lot to ...
What’s Wrong with this Picture?
From the introduction to Steven Moore’s The Novel: In the early 1990s I was an editor at Dalkey Archive Press, which specialized in what one bookseller disparaged as “egghead” fiction. The most difficult and demanding ...
Blumenberg’s Metaphorology
Two new Hans Blumenberg books are out in English translation, both short: Paradigms for a Metaphorology (and Care Crosses the River (1987). The second one is more aphoristic than anything else I’ve read by him ...