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Nabokov’s “L’Envoi” in Lectures on Literature
*This was originally posted 17 February, 2009. A few months ago I read Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature, a wonderful selection of adapted classroom notes and lessons from Nabokov’s literature...
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Oracles and the Art of Reading
*This was originally posted 8 March, 2011. “If you cross the Halys, you will destroy a great empire.” (Oracle at Delphi to Croesus, Sixth Century BCE) What is an oracle? What is an oracular vision?...
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Criticism Re: Topography of Ignorance
I read yesterday a blog post entitled ‘The Topography of Ignorance: Science and Literary Theory.’ I found it to be an interesting read, and although I do not feel compelled to make a full, formal...
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Hemingway, Caricature, and Poor Reading
So I was perusing Google Fast Flip this afternoon over breakfast and I ran across an article in the LA Times about Ernest Hemingway’s current place in the spectrum of popular culture. The article...
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Dune and mortality, rereading via accident and error
I’m in the midst of rereading Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, and in so doing I have once again seen something in them which I’d not seen before. I first read Dune when I was just a shade younger than the...
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Nanoha, Madoka, and Honest Mahou Shoujo
I watch a fair bit of anime and I read a good bit of manga as well; some might even say a great deal, but being in the fandom I am well aware of what is considered “a great deal” by people who are on...
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Kirino versus Manami, no contest
Sometimes I have very strong feelings about characters. These feelings can be positive or negative, and they seem to come over me with no warning at all. Literature, film, anime, manga, games, all are...
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