Tag Archives: Henry James

soliloquy: photos of american monologues

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Dave

Small vignettes that serve as a form of Americana that bend the universal into the national.Taking an extravagant oral style of the past and coaxing it into sensitive human revelation. Whether one considers them Mark Twain or an even older … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alec soth, alexander Farkas, Alexis de Tocqueville, Damien Hirst, Edgar Allen Poe, ellis washington, emily dickinson, Greil Marcus, Henry James, Luc Sante, Mark Twain, michael a. ledeen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, neal riemer, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

WATER SPIDERS: Quantitative and Social Easing

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Dave

This aspect of Keynes — the shrewd investor, the canny player of financial markets — is rather unexpected in light of the man ’ s early life and beliefs. Keynes was an aesthete, his first allegiance to philosophy and the art of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Anna Upchurch, Bertrand Russell, Cecil Day-Lewis, Clive Bell, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Francis Bacon, G.E. Moore, Henry James, Jan Ellen Goldstein, John Maynard Keynes, Kenneth Clark, Leonard Woolf, Lydia Lopokova, Lytton Strachey, Quentin Bell, Roger Fry, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Spender, T.S. Eliot, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden | Leave a comment

FALLEN ANGELS & RED STRINGS: The Left-Hand Path

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Dave

After the Red String is wound around the tomb, it is endowed with mystical powers. The Red String is then cut into pieces and worn on the left hand’s wrist. The left hand is considered by Kabbalah to be the … Continue reading →

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A NORTHERN WIZARD: Writing For Love, Money & “The Great Unknowns”

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Dave

Like Dickens and Balzac, he wrote because he could not help writing, but he did not think that the chief business of life was to be put into literature; and much as he appreciated his contemporary fame, he does not appear to have cared … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Andrew Lang, Asha Sahni, Augustine Birrell, Byron, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Coleman O. Parsons, David Wilkie, Dickens, Edgar Johnson, Emily Bronte, Eugene Delacroix, Frank R. Shaw, George Cruickshank, George Eliot, Henry James, Honore de Balzac, Ian Ousby, James Fenimore Cooper, James Heath, James Saxon, Jane Austen, John Gibson Lockhart, Lockhart, Marie Fletcher, Philip Coppens, Philip V. Allingham, Robert Cadell, Samuel Johnson, Sir David Wilkie, Sir John Watson Gordon, Sir Walter Scott, Susan Keeping, T.S. Eliot, Thackeray, William Hazlitt | Leave a comment

BONNARD & LIBERATED FROM GRAVITY: ENDLESS SUMMER

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Dave

The intense freshness of “the first moving instant vision” provoked by an object. But actually to copy that object increased the distance from that vision. There is always the danger,Pierre Bonnard felt, of the artist’s becoming caught by the incidentals … Continue reading →

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MOON ROCKS & SHAKESPEARE’S SECRET AUTHOR TALKS

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Dave

This year sees a 25th anniversary re- publication of Margaret Atwood‘s dystopian classic,”The Handmaid’s Tale” about an oppressive America of the future where sexual reproduction is both a eugenics of mind and action. The Handmaids are forced to provide children by proxy … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Amelia Bassano, Amelia Bassano Lanier, Amitav Ghosh, Apollo 11 hoax, Arthur C. Clarke, Bill kaysing, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Newman Guardian, Christine de Pisan, Christopher Marlowe, Dan David Prize, Dave Itzkoff, David Percy, David Percy and Mary Bennett, Dr. Werner Van Braun, Ezra Glinter, Francis Bacon, Franz Rosenzweig, Henry James, Horkheimer, Jennifer Matsui, Joe O'Connor, John Hudson Dark lady Players, John Hudson Shakespeare, John Hundson, Kate McLuskie, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Atwood israel, Mark Twain, mary Bennett, Max Horkheimer, Michael Egan, Michael Egan Oxfordian, Michael Egan Shakespeare, Michel Foucault, Monzer Zimmo, Paul Jacobs, Sigmund Freud, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir John Gilbert, The Frankfurt School, The Oxfordian, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Werner von Braun | 2 Comments

A DIRGE ABOUT A ROCK AND HARD PLACE

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Dave

The English novel is a phenomenon that only took form in the early years of the 18th century, and is generally attributed to Daniel Defoe. Prior to this time, stories were told either in dramatic form on the stage, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Carl Jung, Carol Flyn, Daniel Defoe, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, English literature, George Butte, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Jane Austen, Jane Collier, Jocelyn Harris, Lisa Zunshine, Paul Woodruff, Samuel Richardson, Samuel Richardson Clarissa, Sarah Fielding, Saskia Wickham, Sean Beam, Sir Thomas Roe, Sir Walter Scott | Leave a comment

CLARISSA: NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Dave

It is the prose of suspicion; an uncovering of layers of disconcerting awareness between its lines. Samuel Richardson’s ( 1689-1761 ) ambitious narrative of tragic seduction is traced through the hundreds of letters written between Clarissa Harlowe, her confidante Anna Howe, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Charles Dickens, Denis Diderot, Epistolary literary form, Francis Hayman, George Eliot, Goethe, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Homer, Honore de Balzac, Jane Austen, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Mullan, Marcel Proust, Melvyn Bragg, Samuel Richardson, Thackeray, Virgil | Leave a comment

ANARCHISTS WHO RUN WITH WOLVES

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Dave

… and occasionally ride camels. Nearly all exponents of anarchism, for example, have used the term to refer to a natural state of society in which people are not governed by submission to humanmade laws or to any external authority. … Continue reading →

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EAT, DRINK AND BE WARY

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Dave

”The book was so popular it went into six editions during Burton’s lifetime, and its gratified author was eager to doff his anonymity after the first. It should have been popular. Although it gave expression to the pains of the people (always a … Continue reading →