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Showing posts with label james joyce. Show all posts
10 Oct 2024

And Then This: More Random Thoughts on Samuel Beckett

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Stephen Alexander: God Save Samuel Beckett (2024)  (à la Jamie Reid) [1]     There are many reasons other than his dark humour and finely...
9 Oct 2024

And Then What: Random Thoughts on Samuel Beckett

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Fig. 1: Photograph of Samuel Beckett by Roger Pic (1977)   Fig. 2: Arthur Atkinson as Hogg in Beckett's one-act play And Then What    (B...
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11 Feb 2021

Iconography is Never Innocent

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Dorothy Brett (1883-1977):  Portratit of D. H. Lawrence with Halo (1925) Oil on canvas (78 x 48 cm)   'The narrowed, slightly stylised ...
1 Sept 2019

D. H. Lawrence and the Novel (Part 1)

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Henry Rayner: Portrait of D. H. Lawrence (1929) D. H. Lawrence was acutely concerned with the (moral) question of the novel: its ...
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1 Apr 2019

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

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But don't tell my heart /  My achy breaky heart I just don't think he'd understand As Nietzsche was fond of pointi...
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2 May 2018

Reflections on the Death Mask (With Reference to the Case of L'Inconnue de la Seine)

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  L'Inconnue de la Seine  (c. late-1880s)  A favourite pin-up of necrophiles I. How Even the Dead Can Continue to Make a...
29 Oct 2017

Paint It Black: Notes on a Song

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Pure Evil:  Anita Pallenberg's Nightmare -  Paint It Black (2016)  Stencil spray paint on canvas (100 cm x 100 cm) Whilst i...