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I watched Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story this week. The experience of watching the film was strikingly like that of reading the book. I'm not sure whether that's a recommendation or not, plotwise - but the acting is really fabulous, and I think anyone who enjoys Tristram Shandy on any level would get something out of the movie.

Tonight, I finished reading The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul (for the second or third time), and I keep thinking that there should be a class or a bookclub or something where everyone reads that, and American Gods, and Who's Afraid of Beowulf, and maybe like Eaters of the Dead, or something, and then there's discussion and comparison-contrast, and essays about modern retellings of Norse myth in English.

So that's what's going on in my head! How about yours?
revena: Text reads: Hardcore cage wrestler of literature (hardcore)
I thought that maybe my newfound appreciation for Ioan Gruffudd would make me like King Arthur better.

Nope. It's still a pretty awful movie.

Great soundtrack, though! Really good for background while I'm painting doll faces...
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Don't read this if you haven't seen Star Wars and don't wanna be spoiled!

That said... )
revena: A series of images identifies me as an all-purpose geek (Geek)
Ok, I'm posting the "turned-in" version of an essay I did last semester... those of you who read the friendslocked pre-turned-in version won't find much difference, and may want to just skip it, unless you've got some weird desire to read essays of mine... And hey, if that's the case, just lemme know and I'll post my _Tristram Shandy_ masterpiece!

Anyway, this is something I wrote for my English Honors Seminar last semester. I should note, in my defense, that I was really sick and sort of high on Tylenol when I did the actual writing... I'm not very happy with it at all, mostly because I felt like I really wanted to go on after the ten page limit. So, think of it more as some interesting thinking points than a polished, final paper... I had to leave all kinds of stuff out. There's not even any theory, just a close reading of several texts... And, oh, man, how badly I wanted to read even closer yet... Where's a -twenty page- paper when you need one?

Please pretend that the formatting is correct, and that appropriate things are underlined, etc. It's so long I don't wanna edit it for LJ. Without further ado:

“Unsex Me Here”: Man-Hearted Women and the Defeminization of Violence in Drama )

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