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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

A parentless gypsy of fifteen or sixteen, Esmeralda captures the interest of four very different admirers. There is the philosopher Pierre Gringoire, the playboy Captain Phoebus, the repressed archdeacon Claude Frollo, and the eponymous hunchback, Quasimodo. These admirers, though individually very different, fall

Victoria Addis January 8, 2017June 13, 2019 Blog, Book Reviews, Fiction, Translated Fiction 1 Comment Read more

Charlotte by David Foenkinos

Charlotte by David Foenkinos

Charlotte Salomon was a German-born Jewish artist of significant achievement and greater promise but aged just 26, and pregnant with her first child, she died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz. The crowning achievement of Charlotte’s tragically short life, Leben?

Victoria Addis December 18, 2016April 8, 2021 Art, Blog, Book Reviews, Fiction, Translated Fiction No Comments Read more

Freud: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Freud: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle is perhaps his most controversial work. It is difficult to get to grips with ideologically and to follow through the twists and turns of its reasoning. This post offers a simple explanation of Freud’s key ideas.

Victoria Addis September 19, 2016June 13, 2019 Blog, Theory Explained, Undergraduate Resources No Comments Read more

Beethoven’s Fifth & V for Vendetta

Beethoven’s Fifth & V for Vendetta

Written in the 1980s at the height of Thatcher’s Britain, Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta is a politically charged graphic novel set in a dystopian near-future world in which Britain has fallen into fascism following a brief nuclear exchange. The

Victoria Addis August 25, 2016June 13, 2019 Blog, Comics and Graphic Novels, Critical Essays, Music and Literature No Comments Read more

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is often used as an example of a work astride two movements: modernism and postmodernism. It was written in 1955 when modernism was experiencing something of a revival in the wake of the Second World

Victoria Addis August 25, 2016February 12, 2020 Blog, Plays, Poetry and Plays, Theory Explained, Undergraduate Resources 4 Comments Read more

The Uncanny in ‘The Bloody Chamber’

The Uncanny in ‘The Bloody Chamber’

In his 1919 essay of the same title, Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud defines das unheimliche (‘the uncanny’) as, ‘that class of frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar.’ His original essay relies on the etymology of the

Victoria Addis August 18, 2016June 13, 2019 Blog, Theory Explained, Undergraduate Resources No Comments Read more

Shakespeare’s Plays: A Chronology

Shakespeare’s Plays: A Chronology

First Performed Plays First Printed 1590-91 Henry VI, Part II 1594? 1590-91 Henry VI, Part III 1594? 1591-92 Henry VI, Part I 1623 1592-93 Richard III 1597 1592-93 Comedy of Errors 1623 1593-94 Titus Andronicus 1594 1593-94 Taming of the

Victoria Addis August 15, 2016June 13, 2019 Blog, Plays, Shakespeare, Undergraduate Resources No Comments Read more

The History of England Vol 1

The History of England Vol 1

Volume one of The History of England takes us from a geographical overview of prehistory through the tribal chieftain-monarchies of early England and the establishment of single ruling dynasties, up to the reign of the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII. The

Victoria Addis August 14, 2016June 13, 2019 Blog, Book Reviews, History, Non-Fiction No Comments Read more

The Daemon Knows by Harold Bloom

The Daemon Knows by Harold Bloom

The Daemon Knows is an exploration of what Bloom calls the “American sublime”: that class of literature that reaches beyond the human, in a way that is distinctly American. What is beyond the human falls, by Bloom’s estimation, into three

Victoria Addis August 14, 2016June 13, 2019 American Fiction, Blog, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction No Comments Read more

George Orwell: English Rebel

George Orwell: English Rebel

In this book, Robert Colls sets out to chart George Orwell’s changing attitudes towards “Englishness”, and the various positions he holds, and tries to hold, in relation to it. He achieves this through a mixture of biography, political history, and

Victoria Addis August 14, 2016June 13, 2019 Blog, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction No Comments Read more
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