February 5, 2010
As I think about some of the most famous female characters in literature and drama, I am struck by how many of them wind up taking their own lives: Antigone, Jocasta (Antigone’s mother), Eurydice (Antigone’s aunt)—and that’s just one ancient Greek storyline. If you throw Shakespeare into the mix, the list gets even longer: Juliet, [...]
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August 25, 2009
Are the new fangled communication tools like text messaging, Twitter, and Facebook, too short and simplistic to be of any real value? Not at all. They are simply different mediums with their own rules and conventions, but still with incredibly flexibility when used correctly. Hemingway’s famous “For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” spawned a whole [...]
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