Von Goethe: The Father of Romanticism
Von Goethe: The Father of Romanticism By Gabriel Blanchard Goethe inaugurated a fundamental change in the passions that inspire literature in general. Romanticism is an idea we tend …
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Terence: The Paradoxes of Comedy
Terence: The Paradoxes of Comedy By Gabrie Blanchard The frivolity of Terence’s plays conceals a great depth of human feeling. There are many playwrights on the CLT Author …
The Great Conversation: Humor
The Great Conversation: Humor By Gabriel Blanchard “Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” “Humor.” “Humor who?” “Humor me while I think of a better joke.” Many people feel that anything …
Student Essay: So Are They All, All Honorable Men
Student Essay: So Are They All, All Honorable Men By Ryan Brown Shakespeare’s Brutus is a study in façades. Picture a pumpkin the week after Thanksgiving, which has …
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Wilde: The Importance of Being Flippant
Wilde: The Importance of Being Flippant By Gabriel Blanchard A tagline at the head of an essay is like saying “Thank you” for an unwanted gift: idiotic, and …
How to Read Books | Genre: The Basics
HOW TO READ BOOKS Genre: The Basics By Gabriel Blanchard Want get more out of your daily reading? Join us for everything from specific tips to elementary literary …
Sartre: The Voltaire of the Twentieth Century
Sartre: The Voltaire of the Twentieth Century By Gabriel Blanchard In Sartre, we meet an enigma—and a firebrand. Jean-Paul Sartre is perhaps the single most prominent existentialist philosopher …
Student Essay: The Spirit of “Macbeth”
Student Essay: The Spirit of Macbeth By Chizaram Ugochuku Macbeth not only ignores, but exactly reverses, the precepts of the Sermon on the Mount—and reaps the inevitable consequences. …
Student Essay: A Chorus of Murders
Student Essay: A Chorus of Murders By Aurora Muggeridge What makes for a sympathetic villain in Greek tragedy? Æschylus’ Clytemnestra and Euripides’ Medea are two wrathful women who …