Subtext: Conversations About Classic Books and Films https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html A Map-Like Imagination in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (“First Death in Nova Scotia”) A Map-Like Imagination in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (“The Moose,” Part 2) About Us The Door Slam Heard ‘Round the World: Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” Existence and Expectancy in “Waiting for Godot” (Part 2) The Music of Longing in “Amadeus” (1984) – Part 2 Society as Swindle in “The Third Man” (1949) Anti-Mystery in “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (Part 2) Anti-Mystery in “Picnic at Hanging Rock” “The Indian to His Love” by William Butler Yeats “Leda and the Swan” by William Butler Yeats The Weight of Memory in Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” (1940) – Part 2 The Weight of Memory in Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” (1940) Word and Image in “Sunset Boulevard” (1950) – Part 2 The Sublime Mundane in Conrad Aiken’s “Morning Song of Senlin” Love Dishonored in Euripides’ “Medea” (Part 1) Courtly Reciprocity in “Laustic” and “Guigemar” by Marie de France (Part 2) Courtly Reciprocity in “Laustic” and “Guigemar” by Marie de France (Part 1) Staking Claims in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948) (Part 1) Psychedelic Regrets in “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Consciousness Bemoaned in “Aubade” by Philip Larkin (Part 2) Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” (Part 2) Terminal Wooings in “The Odyssey” (Part 3 of 3) Home as Identity in “The Odyssey” Losing Your Head in Alice Munro’s “Carried Away” Better and Bested in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Post-Doctoral Bedevilment in Christopher Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus” Work as Madness in “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957) (post)script: Is “Die Hard” a Christmas Movie? Cursed Kids or Psych-Au Pair? “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James Disturbing the Universe in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot: Part 1 Unsound Methods in Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” (post)script: Post-Hall: Pimps, Pills, and Automobiles Identity and Infamy in “Citizen Kane” (1941) (Part 1) “Notes from the Underground” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky: An Anatomy of Human Self-Destructiveness (Part 2) A Map-Like Imagination in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (“The Moose”) Curses and Colonizers in “The Mummy” (1999) – Part 2 Curses and Colonizers in “The Mummy” (1999) Existence and Expectancy in “Waiting for Godot” The Romance of Self-Destruction in “Withnail and I” (1987) – Part 2 The Romance of Self-Destruction in “Withnail and I” (1987) The Ethics of Seeing in Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” (Part 2) The Ethics of Seeing in Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” The Music of Longing in “Amadeus” (1984) The Character of Authority in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” (Part 6) The Character of Authority in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” (Part 5) The Character of Authority in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” (Part 4) The Character of Authority in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” (Part 3) The Character of Authority in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” (Part 2) The Character of Authority in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”