Alicia Malone hosted Felicia Feaster to choose and discuss two films which involve “Goth gardens” imagery. Nice to see presentations including visual explorations which expand cinematic themes instead of the regular production notes, awards recognition, lifestyle gossip. How refreshing!
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Film critic and arts writer Felicia Feaster collection of articles, interviews and reviews.

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The two scenes repeating Pip’s childhood trauma in Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations” (1861)

In my Academic Writing classes this morning, we looked at two passages from Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" (1861) in which the narrator Pip's traumatic childhood scene is repeated, first in the return of the convict Magwitch and then in the return of a second convict, Compeyson. In both sessions, we

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When life and the world starts to resemble a poorly written James Bond novel, remember to seize the opportunity to redefine your life in glorious fashion.

As the US is bringing back legal piracy, consider what other opportunities await the heroes of tomorrow.

Notions of normalcy are quaint artifacts of the past - this is a time of upheaval and great change.

Are you going to keep being the timid little factotum the billionaires want you to be?

#live #life #lifeIsStrange #greatExpectations #opportunity #newWorld #resist #rise #change #build #dream #dare #kickASS

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The “literal interpretation” of “New Kid in Town”, by The Eagles

Yesterday, I played my students the beginning of "New Kid in Town" (The Eagles, "Hotel California", 1976, by Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and JD Souther): "There's talk on the street, it sounds so familiar / Great expectations, everybody's watching you." They laughed at my joke: a week ago, we began discussing

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Manvir Singh's figure of “the triumphant orphan”: Oliver Twist and Jane Eyre, but surely not Pip

In an article on whether a "key to all mythologies" could be created, Manvir Singh mentions the figure of the "triumphant orphan" and lists examples from Cinderella and Jane Eyre to Harry Potter and Igbo stories from Nigeria. Before I began reading the list, I thought of "Oliver Twist" (1839)

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