June 5, 2013
Preliminary notes to a course on The Death of Ivan Ilyich
By Joe Weil
This “functionary class” is co-optive, incapable of originality, grafting onto its evil and mundane tree the native “shrewdness” and greed common to the worst peasants, and the pretentiousness and faux complexity/ haughtiness of the worst nobility.
This “functionary class” is co-optive, incapable of originality, grafting onto its evil and mundane tree the native “shrewdness” and greed common to the worst peasants, and the pretentiousness and faux complexity/ haughtiness of the worst nobility.
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June 25, 2012
Garbage Picking in Eliot’s Waste Land, Part 5
By Tom Bair
“The Waste Land” is most usually and most persuasively read as a satire.
“The Waste Land” is most usually and most persuasively read as a satire.
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