Tag Archives: Angela Carter

odd couples

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Dave

A secret drive to crave disgrace or an insane desire to please? … Louise Mignot, the daughter of Voltaire’s sister, had in 1738 married Monsieur Denis of the Commisariat Department, who died in 1744. Her uncle on the occasion of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Angela Carter, bruno h. schubert, Francois Boucher, Frederick the Great, Marquis de Sade, Marquise de Pompadour, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Max Horkheimer, meharit kifle, nell gwynn, sir peter leley, The Duchess of Alba, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Hardy, Voltaire | Leave a comment

A LANGUAGE OF TRICKS & TREATS: Sea of Universal Myth

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Dave

“A still further step can and must be taken, however, before we still have reached the bounds of the problem. Myth, as the psychoanalysts declare, is not a mess of errors; myth is a picture language. But the language has … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Amanda K. Coomaraswamy, Angela Carter, Brothers Grimm, Clemens Brentano, Dante Alighieri, Donald Haase, Emile Durkheim, Gustaf Tenggren, Jack Zipes, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Jacobs, Julius Krohn, Karl Verner, Katherina Viehmann, Kim Carpenter, Lisa Falzon, Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Nikolai Lesskow, Nin Harris, Robert Darnton, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Aquinas, Tom Davenport, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

INTO AN ENCHANTED FOREST: Shadowy & Conjectural Images

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Dave

“So that by that time the Grimm brothers arrived to began their collection, much material had overlain the remote mythology of the early tribes. Tales from thee four quarters, inventions from every level of society and all stages of Western … Continue reading →