URBAN, DAVID V. ‘‘An Allusion to Luke 23:39 in Addison’s Cato,’’ N&Q, 60 (December 2013), 555... more URBAN, DAVID V. ‘‘An Allusion to Luke 23:39 in Addison’s Cato,’’ N&Q, 60 (December 2013), 555–556. As Caesar’s forces draw near, fellow senator Lucius says, ‘‘Cato, ’tis time thou save thyself and us.’’ Ignoring contextual subtleties, Mr. Urban sees an allusion to the thief on the cross’s reviling Christ, ‘‘save thyself and us,’’ perhaps in Addison’s mind from his work on Milton the previous year: in Paradise Regained Satan ‘‘tells the Son to turn stones to bread so that he can ‘save thy self and us relieve.’’’
Wendy Jones Nakanishi tells us the story of her path as a Western woman who came to rural Japan f... more Wendy Jones Nakanishi tells us the story of her path as a Western woman who came to rural Japan for a career in higher education and the benefits and challenges she faced there. She shares her experiences of living the life as an employed university worker, on the one hand, and as a woman in a male-dominated family, on the other.
PART ONE: CREATING A CULTURE OF LETTERS PART TWO: CREATING A CULTURE OF LITERACY PART THREE: FROM... more PART ONE: CREATING A CULTURE OF LETTERS PART TWO: CREATING A CULTURE OF LITERACY PART THREE: FROM LETTERS TO LITERATURE
Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, Jan 31, 2005
... In The River Ki, it is Hana rather than her husband who checks their daughter's stru... more ... In The River Ki, it is Hana rather than her husband who checks their daughter's struggle for an independent life. ... Kirino and other such current bestselling female authors of detective fiction in Japan as Miyabe Miyuki, Nonami Asa, Shibata Yoshiki, and Matsuo Yumi can be seen ...
A Severed Head, published in 1961, by the Anglo-Irish author Iris Murdoch, has proved one of her ... more A Severed Head, published in 1961, by the Anglo-Irish author Iris Murdoch, has proved one of her most commercially successful works. One of its primary attractions is that it is about sex. With its themes of marriage, incest and adultery within a group of educated and civilised people dwelling in well-to-do areas of 1950s London, it has been said that A Severed Head anticipates the sexual revolution of a period subsequently dubbed the “Swinging Sixties”. But its roots lie even deeper. It is also possible to see Murdoch's novel as a modern reworking of the licentious Restoration sex comedies penned in the late seventeenth century by such writers as William Wycherley, Sir George Etherege and William Congreve. Murdoch is indebted, too, to Freud. While Freud and Schnitzler believe that man engages in sex because of his fear of death, for Murdoch, love can enlighten and elevate the individual, allowing him to transcend the selfish limitations of self. This possibility is also hinted at in such a Restoration co...
The Bell has proven to be one of the most enduringly popular of Iris Murdoch's twenty-six nov... more The Bell has proven to be one of the most enduringly popular of Iris Murdoch's twenty-six novels. It was a critical and popular success from its first appearance in 1958, earning its author plaudits as the foremost writer of her age. This tale of a lay community housed in a country house beside an Anglican abbey is also one of the most apparently conventional of her works, taking place in a recognizable contemporary Gloucestershire that is peopled by a cast of recognizably human and fallible characters in search of salvation from worldly troubles. Beneath the apparently “ordinary” world depicted in The Bell, however, we find that it is a novel filled with doubles that often form contrastive pairs, representing a world of opposites, of duality. The superficial or the “apparent” is often different from “reality,” the secular life contrasts with the sacred, hatred is opposed to love, the unconscious mind knows truths that the conscious mind either is unaware of or is reluctant to admit, and the agonies of th...
URBAN, DAVID V. ‘‘An Allusion to Luke 23:39 in Addison’s Cato,’’ N&Q, 60 (December 2013), 555... more URBAN, DAVID V. ‘‘An Allusion to Luke 23:39 in Addison’s Cato,’’ N&Q, 60 (December 2013), 555–556. As Caesar’s forces draw near, fellow senator Lucius says, ‘‘Cato, ’tis time thou save thyself and us.’’ Ignoring contextual subtleties, Mr. Urban sees an allusion to the thief on the cross’s reviling Christ, ‘‘save thyself and us,’’ perhaps in Addison’s mind from his work on Milton the previous year: in Paradise Regained Satan ‘‘tells the Son to turn stones to bread so that he can ‘save thy self and us relieve.’’’
Wendy Jones Nakanishi tells us the story of her path as a Western woman who came to rural Japan f... more Wendy Jones Nakanishi tells us the story of her path as a Western woman who came to rural Japan for a career in higher education and the benefits and challenges she faced there. She shares her experiences of living the life as an employed university worker, on the one hand, and as a woman in a male-dominated family, on the other.
PART ONE: CREATING A CULTURE OF LETTERS PART TWO: CREATING A CULTURE OF LITERACY PART THREE: FROM... more PART ONE: CREATING A CULTURE OF LETTERS PART TWO: CREATING A CULTURE OF LITERACY PART THREE: FROM LETTERS TO LITERATURE
Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, Jan 31, 2005
... In The River Ki, it is Hana rather than her husband who checks their daughter's stru... more ... In The River Ki, it is Hana rather than her husband who checks their daughter's struggle for an independent life. ... Kirino and other such current bestselling female authors of detective fiction in Japan as Miyabe Miyuki, Nonami Asa, Shibata Yoshiki, and Matsuo Yumi can be seen ...
A Severed Head, published in 1961, by the Anglo-Irish author Iris Murdoch, has proved one of her ... more A Severed Head, published in 1961, by the Anglo-Irish author Iris Murdoch, has proved one of her most commercially successful works. One of its primary attractions is that it is about sex. With its themes of marriage, incest and adultery within a group of educated and civilised people dwelling in well-to-do areas of 1950s London, it has been said that A Severed Head anticipates the sexual revolution of a period subsequently dubbed the “Swinging Sixties”. But its roots lie even deeper. It is also possible to see Murdoch's novel as a modern reworking of the licentious Restoration sex comedies penned in the late seventeenth century by such writers as William Wycherley, Sir George Etherege and William Congreve. Murdoch is indebted, too, to Freud. While Freud and Schnitzler believe that man engages in sex because of his fear of death, for Murdoch, love can enlighten and elevate the individual, allowing him to transcend the selfish limitations of self. This possibility is also hinted at in such a Restoration co...
The Bell has proven to be one of the most enduringly popular of Iris Murdoch's twenty-six nov... more The Bell has proven to be one of the most enduringly popular of Iris Murdoch's twenty-six novels. It was a critical and popular success from its first appearance in 1958, earning its author plaudits as the foremost writer of her age. This tale of a lay community housed in a country house beside an Anglican abbey is also one of the most apparently conventional of her works, taking place in a recognizable contemporary Gloucestershire that is peopled by a cast of recognizably human and fallible characters in search of salvation from worldly troubles. Beneath the apparently “ordinary” world depicted in The Bell, however, we find that it is a novel filled with doubles that often form contrastive pairs, representing a world of opposites, of duality. The superficial or the “apparent” is often different from “reality,” the secular life contrasts with the sacred, hatred is opposed to love, the unconscious mind knows truths that the conscious mind either is unaware of or is reluctant to admit, and the agonies of th...
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