Monthly Archives: February 2011

Flash

Posted on 17/02/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

I’m cur­rently beaver­ing through the syl­labus for the con­vict nov­el sem­in­ar, and could­n’t help noti­cing just how much the wiki­pe­dia por­trait of Mar­cus Clarke rep­res­ents that Vic­tori­an bug­bear: the gen­tle­man. Sed­ate, bearded, respect­able, & some­what sombre. I am sure part … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Love through history

Posted on 15/02/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

Well, here we are, the sur­viv­ors of yet anoth­er Valentine’s Day. And Lapham’s Quarterly has decided to bless us with a splen­did essay on the sym­bol­ism of the heart through his­tory, which coin­cid­ent­ally ends up being a his­tory of the … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Russians on the screen, Russians in print

Posted on 09/02/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

I just fin­ished watch­ing The Last Sta­tion, the Tol­stoy movie from the sum­mer of 2010, and won­der­ing about screen Rus­si­ans (old style) as opposed to screen Rus­si­ans (new style, i.e. Orlov). In the inter­view from the DVD’s spe­cials, the dir­ect­or … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Tricky one: Short stories as novels?

Posted on 05/02/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

What do one Brit­ish cult author, mainly of com­ics, and a can­on­ized Cana­dian author have in com­mon? Space as fic­tion­al organ­ising prin­ciple! Both Moore’s Voice of the Fire and Humphrey’s The Frozen Thames are short story col­lec­tions, chro­no­lo­gic­ally arranged, and … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Attention peoples!

Posted on 05/02/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

Meet the Gentry: Aleksandr Orlov, here seen with his devoted side-kick, Sergej, enjoy­ing the splend­our of his bub­bly jac­uzzy bath. Orlov may seem like a meme all of his own. Brows­ing around his ever-expand­ing homepage, now includ­ing the vil­lage of Meerkovo … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Verse by Verse

Posted on 04/02/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

A ver­it­able smor­gas­board of deli­cious tit­bits, a sample of sheer delights! For the poetry lov­er, romantic, pas­sion­ate, dreamy, funny or oth­er­wise, I hope this will be not merely the place to look for details of upcom­ing course read­ings, but a … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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My Secret Favourite

Posted on 04/02/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

“Aus­trali­an con­vict nov­els” is in synch with my cur­rent big research pro­ject,  a com­par­at­ive genre study of all 40something Aus­trali­an con­vict nov­els to date. Which is one of the reas­ons why it has been placed at level III of the B.A. … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Testing… testing.…

Posted on 04/02/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

Apo­lo­gies ahead for the utter noob­ness of this, my vir­gin­al first entry. This is indeed more dif­fi­cult than I thought: I’m cur­rently strug­gling with the struc­ture of pages to cat­egor­ies and homepage to “most recent” post. Bear with me… Hope­fully, this … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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