#joan wyndham

[laurapetrie]

My shopping list: Madame Bovary, an indecent pink gauze nightdress (the kind you can see through), Arden powder in the pink cardboard box, gold Cherry Yardley lipstick, Coty's 'Vertige' from the Maison Francaise, and a black chenille snood with a bow on top.

Joan Wyndham, Love Lessons

[veryslowreader]

Anything Once by Joan Wyndham

After Henry: "Dependent Relatives"

[sherlockianscholar]

part 1 (1985-1990): the saga of jeremy brett through the scuttlebutt archives

go here for part two!

since 1971, sherlockian and baker st irregular, peter blau has published a small "gossip" sheet for all sherlock holmes news under publication of the "scuttlebutt from the spermaceti press." after the advent of computers, peter started digitizing all his sheets from 1985 onward.

i went through blau's archives to look for any tidbits on jeremy brett. what i found tells jeremy's saga as granada's sherlock holmes. some of the entries are very straightforward. some of them require reading through the lines. some of them are just fun background bits of granada. but all of them paint jeremy's story through little snippets of news.

March 1985: granada premieres in america! vincent price quoted edgar w. smith, one of the foremost sherlockians in history :)

July 1985: the beginning of the closing chapter of his life

for some reason these are the only pictures i can find of joan and jeremy together, but they are absolutely adorable

August 1985 #1

August 1985 #2: jeremy's flightiness around the role trickles to the press. though he'll never say why.

"'and then i hang my pipes up,'" he said with a smile." his feelings regarding holmes were dangerous before joan's death and only got worse.

to quote producer june wyndham-davies, "when his depression was upon him, and he suffered from depression of the worst kind, he was a different person entirely. i've never known anyone whose personality could change so much. he would become aggressive and not want to continue. i had so many conversations with jeremy about not wanting to continue as sherlock holmes. he felt that sherlock holmes had turned him into a monster. jeremy brett was like that before he ever came to sherlock holmes, but it wasn't his fault and it certainly wasn't sherlock holmes fault."

December 1987: i didn't know he commissioned the play, the secret of sherlock holmes! and helped write it!!

February 1988: damn, that's audacious

May 1988: i can only imagine how much more would've been created and executed if jeremy hadn't gotten sick

okay but, the dog in the hound of the baskervilles is named khan. the movie is literally the wrath of khan.

June 1988: i can't pinpoint the timeline for when jeremy's mental illness became public knowledge and published by the media. however, from this short news clipping, it doesn't seem like they knew the real reason jeremy's hair was cut short. and almost certainly not that he chopped it off himself.

"jeremy just got into one of his manic states—you know, i hate sherlock holmes etc., and one day he cut his hair. in front of the mirror, he lopped bits off. i remember the first time I saw him after he had done it. we were both appearing in an 80th birthday tribute to sir laurence olivier at the national. he turned up at the theatre and i said, 'god, what have you done to your hair?' it was patently obvious it had not been cut by a barber—there were bits sticking up all over." -edward hardwicke

July 1988: the age of jeremy brett! forget the victorian era, this is the jeremerian? brettian? era

October 1988 #1

October 1988 #2: jeremy's insecurities shine through more. high praise for daniel day-lewis. "don't worry you haven't heard or seen the last of him!" congrats to jeremy for introducing lewis to america LOL. yay for play success! (also what does he mean by saying the private life of sherlock holmes is a "damaged film?" robert stephens was one of jeremy's life long best friends--stephens died exactly 2 months after jeremy. coincidentally, jeremy's ex-boyfriend, paul shenar, died exactly one month after jeremy.)

October 1988 #3: L O L

November 1988 #1: jeremy's opinion matters!

November 1988 #2: in my opinion, "bending the willow" is the most important part of jeremy's interpretation of holmes

August 1989: michael cox (the cornerstone of creating and shaping the first half of granada's run) begins to make his (very forced) exit. jeremy's physical health problems are becoming apparent, but they are brushed away by the actor, attributing his breathing issues and weight gain to heavy smoking. and once again, jeremy tries to cast off holmes, without revealing his true reasons.

according to granada's page on the arthur conan doyle encyclopedia, this is what was really happening:

"the performances were probably cathartic for him, but required excessive physical effort from a man with a worsening heart condition who, due to the enormous water retention caused by the lithium, found it difficult to breathe and move. he was forced to leave the theatre and go to hospital, where he stayed for a fortnight and had more than twelve litres of water removed from his body. by 1989 brett and hardwicke, who had supported him with boundless patience, were on their knees. brett took a short holiday but had to be rushed home and hospitalized: the treatments for his bipolar disorder and his heart condition had clashed."

i strongly recommend reading edward's later comments of his difficulties with jeremy during the show: link here

October 1989: two months later, jeremy has yet again changed his mind on continuing as sherlock holmes

November 1989: philip purser how d a r e you say that about my beloved watson. of course, it's from the daily mail, so his opinion doesn't matter.

December 1989: granada undergoes major changes. the conservative government was actively attacking the british media and coming after their budgets. after ousting all of the original leaders of granada's sherlock holmes, the new priorites were based off of ratings and profitability. "you must always remember that your business is to form the market as well as to supply it, [otherwise] your career will have succeeded only in restraining the arts, tarnishing the virtues, and throwing confusion into the manners of your contemporaries." -a granada staffer to the new leaders of the show

January 1990: jeremy finally feels stable in the role, but i think without that dance with "the dark side of the moon" he felt like he lost a key element in his portrayal of holmes. even though he had always been terrified of that instabiity.

end of part 1, so here's part two!

[tillyonjoy]

💊 General Info, Joy Usage & Relationships

General Info:

Name: Mrs. Clair Matilda “Tilly” Wyndham

Age: 44 (3/4/1921)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Unknown

Occupation: A Wellette housewife, leader of JTPFA, and occasional freelance seamstress.

Joy Usage

Favorite Flavor: Chocolate

Frequency: Tilly dutifully takes her Joy every hour. Sometimes, she'll wake up in the middle of the night from nightmares and take more Joy even then. Occasionally, Tilly forgets that she has already taken her Joy and takes it more than once an hour.

Effect on Personality: While Joy does help her forget many painful memories and has made her an overall more optimistic and imaginative person, it also has heavily impeded her working memory, and her imaginative tendencies often fall into dissociative territory, making her seem “spacey.”

Side Effects: Tilly suffers from occasional black outs, weight loss, lightheadedness, and poor working memory because of both her Joy usage and the food shortage in Wellington Wells.

Relationships:

Affiliations: Tilly is part of a fan group for Nick Lightbearer fans and her neighborhood baking association. Tilly also is the leader of JTPFA, or “Joyous Tea Parties For All,” which is a club dedicated to hosting Joy-fuelled tea parties, especially for those who normally would not have the means for such festive activities.

Family: Tilly's mother and father were named Winnie and Chester Enfield and both are deceased. She has an older sister named Joan Bright, a brother-in-law named Pv. Jonathan Bright and two nephews named Benson and Nathan; all of which are missing and have been missing for years. She had twins named Winnie and Chester, both of which were taken from her during the Very Bad Thing. Her husband, Dr. Peter Wyndham, is currently her only “family,” and their marriage is very strained.

Friends: Tilly has friends, but none that are close. They all are people she's met through JTPFA (the club she started), the neighborhood's baking association, and through her clients as a freelance seamstress. They are all more friendly acquaintances than friends.

Enemies: Tilly has a few rivals in the sewing industry. There are also those who are jealous of the life she’s able to live, as being married to a Joy Doctor, she’s a lot more well off than many other Wellies. Some also simply don���t like her head-in-the-clouds, careless attitude. While she wouldn't call any of these people enemies, they probably would not say the same about her.

Romantic Interests: None. She is in a loveless marriage.

[its-nice-its-different]

OK I don't know how to bold stuff on my phone app

But I've read 1, 2, 3, 4 parts of 6, 7-12, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26, started 27 and 28, 29, 30, 32 I think, 33-42, maybe 43 it was one of his but can't remember the title, 45, 46, 48-51, 54, 58-61, 65, 70, 76, 85?, 87, 90, 91, 94, 97-100.

Books that should be on this list

12 years a Slave - Solomon Northup

My Family and other Animals - Gerald Durrell

War of the worlds - HG Wells

The Day of The Triffids - John Wyndham

I, Robot- Isaac Asimov

Homer's Odyssey

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[stubobnumbers]

Juggernaut (1936)

Director: Henry Edwards Starring: Boris Karloff, Joan Wyndham, and Arthur Margetson.

An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.

[spikygurl89]

Books To Be Read April 2023

In Progress:

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from O… by Janna Levin The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the P… by Stephen Fry The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity i… by Hugh Barker

To Read:

Sing: Find Your True Voice - Mary Setrakian Why Good Sex Matters: Understanding the Neuroscience of Pleasure for a Smarter, Happier, and More Purpose-Filled Life - Nan Wise The Elements of Song Craft: The Contemporary Songwriter’s Usage Guide To Writing Songs That Last - Billy Seidman Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power; A Method for Getting What You Want by Getting Off on What You Don't - Carolyn Elliott PhD Bow Down: Lessons from Dominatrixes on How to Get Everything You Want -  Lindsay Goldwert Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger - Soraya Chemaly The Assertiveness Guide for Women: How to Communicate Your Needs, Set Healthy Boundaries & Transform Your Relationships - Julie de Azevedo Hanks, PhD, LCSW Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive - Kristin Neff The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully - Frank Ostaseski What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing - Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry The Power of Agency: The 7 Principles to Conquer Obstacles, Make Effective Decisions, and Create a Life on Your Own Terms - Paul Napper, Psy.D and Anthony Rao, PhD Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament - Michael A. Singer Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time - Laura Khoudari Anatomy: A Love Story - Dana Schwartz The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused -- and Start Standing Up for Yourself - Beverly Engel Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World - Nina Kraus Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Surviving Through and Recovering from the Five Stages That Accompany the Loss of Love - Susan Anderson The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World - Trevor Cox Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland - Gerald Clarke Sinatra: The Chairman - James Kaplan

Amazon wishlist: 101 Songwriting Wrongs and How to Right Them: How to Craft and Sell Your Songs (101 Things) - Pete Luboff The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook: A Radical Guide to Cutting Loose, Overcoming Blocks & Writing the Best Songs of Your Life - Karl Coryat The Songwriter's Handbook - Tom T. Hall The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse - Kevin Simmonds Train Like a Fighter: Get MMA Fit Without Taking a Hit - Cat Zingano Strength Training Exercises for Women: Tone, Sculpt, and Stay Strong for Life - Joan Pagano 7-Minute Body Plan: Quick workouts & simple recipes for real results in 7 days - Lucy Wyndham-Read

[badmovieihave]

Bad Movie I have Child’s Play 1954

[readingaway]

Oh yeah I can second the Valente books.

Some weird to very weird books of various flavors I've read include:

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

Swamp Story by Dave Barry

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Going Bovine by Libba Bray

How to Be Both by Ali Smith

Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi

The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction by Amy Brashear

The Girl Who Slept With God by Val Brelinski

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones

Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

Contact by Carl Sagan

My Tusks of Exctintion post is getting attention so I'm curious, what's the weirdest book you've read? I'd especially love to hear about weird books you enjoyed

I'd start but I didn't actually get around to reading Tusks of Extinction yet, so I'll have to think for a minute

[fashionbooksmilano]

The World in Vogue

Seven momentous decades of the namnes, the faces, and the writing that have held the public eye in  The Arts Society Literature Theatre Fashion Sports Worls Affairs

Secker & Warburg, London 1963, 416 pages, 25 x 33 cm.,

euro 90,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

 A stunning collection of 300 photographs of some of the most celebrated actors, artists, models, First Ladies, and social figures from around the world, drawing on stories from the pages of Vogue as well as never-before-published images by iconic photographers. These trendsetters and newsmakers are captured by such famous photographers as Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Horst P. Horst, Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, François Halard, Helmut Newton, Stephen Meisel, Snowdon, Toni Frissell, Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Annie Leibovitz. Not only did these photographers take dazzling portraits—in studios or on location—that caught these iconic figures in classic, playful, or dramatic moments but they also documented their parties, weddings, houses, and gardens. Writers like Hamish Bowles, Paul Rudnick, Truman Capote, Francis Wyndham, Jeffrey Steingarten, Joan Juliet Buck, William Norwich, Gloria Steinem, Georgina Howell, Vicki Woods, Marina Rust, Michael Specter, and Jonathan Van Meter tell you the stories behind these figures and events. Here are the glamorous weddings of Plum Sykes in Yorkshire, Lauren Davis in Cartagena, and Minnie Cushing in Newport; Truman Capote writing about cruising the Yugoslavian coast with Lee Radziwill, Luciana Pignatelli, and the Agnellis; gardens from East Hampton to Corfu designed by landscape architect Miranda Brooks; Inès de La Fressange’s apartment in Paris; Gloria Steinem reporting on the 540 masked partygoers at the Black and White Ball Truman Capote threw for Katharine Graham at the Plaza hotel; the gardens of Valentino’s seventeenth-century Château de Wideville, outside Paris; the designers, the best-dressed, and the stars at the annual Costume Institute party at the Metropolitan Museum; Mick Jagger and his family in Mustique; Jacqueline Kennedy and Michelle Obama; Kate Moss, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Ali MacGraw, Anjelica Huston, Nicole Kidman, Cher, Iman and David Bowie, Penélope Cruz, Charlotte Rampling, and many more. Richly illustrated in black-and-white and color, The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places is a stunning look at portraits, houses, gardens, and parties of celebrated figures from many worlds.

01/07/22

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[mvchinery]

what i am is what i am : a playlist for leia organa.

i. the archer taylor swift ii. kingdom fall claire wyndham iii. waves of gray ruelle iv. cold cold cold cage the elephant v. simmer hayley williams vi. seashore the regrettes vii. the world ender lord huron viii. mad woman taylor swift ix. survivor destiny’s child x. i want love elton john xi. grave digger matt maeson xii. justine linda rondstadt xiii. i’ll be good jaymes young xiv. red right hand arctic monkeys xv. seven devils florence + the machine xvi. nfwmb hozier xvii. what the water gave me florence + the machine xviii. bad reputation joan jett & the blackhearts xix. glory & gore lorde xx. waves dean lewis xxi. yellow flicker beat lorde xxii. runs in the family amanda palmer xxiii. dynasty rina sawayama xxiv. hit me with your best shot pat benatar xv. paper bag fiona apple xvi. glitter & gold barns courtney xvii. horns bryce fox xviii. every single night fiona apple

[perennialessays]

Modern Literary Movements

MODERN LITERARY MOVEMENTS 2018-19

Lectures: Friday: 3-4pm

Seminar: Friday: 4-6pm

WEEK 1

WEEK ONE Transition to Modernism                                                                                                  Chris Baldick

Seminar: Franz Kafka, ‘Metamorphosis’, James Joyce, ‘Calypso’.

Virginia Woolf

, ‘Modern Fiction’, ‘Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown’

Week 2

Memory and Bergsonism                                                                                                                    Chris Baldick

Seminar: Marcel Proust, The Way by Swann’s; James Joyce, ‘Penelope’

Henri Bergson, excerpt from Time and Free Will * Walter Benjamin, ‘On the image of Proust’*

Seminar Questions

W

e will focus on reading Proust Joyce via Bergson

whose notion of

durée

or duration allows a simultaneous layering of consciousness which Proust says allows the revelation ‘

the secret language of things’

and the ‘

inextinguishable substance

’ of things (254); time regained by the application of the intellect or voluntary memory;

INTUITION

allowing permeation of conscious states.

Wyndham Lewis said  Bergson ‘

more than any other figure … was responsible for the main intellectual characteristics of the world we live in, and the immensity of debt of almost all contemporary philosophy to him is immense’

(

Time and Western Man

, 166)

Genette in

Narrative Discourse

(1972)  notes

‘f

or Proust, lost time is not, as is widely but mistakenly believed, ‘past’ time, but time in its pure state, which is really to say, through the fusion of a present moment and a past moment, the contrary of passing time: the extra-temporal, eternity”’( 40 n. 4; 226, n. 7).

‘If he rejects’ so-called realistic “art, the ‘literature of description,’ which ‘contents itself with 'describing things,' with giving of them merely a miserable abstract of lines and surfaces’ it is because, for him, this kind of literature ignores true reality, which is to be found in essences ...´(Genette, 39; 203).

How does time in Proust compare to Joyce's time in 'Penelope'.

Week 3

Post-Nietzschean Fiction                                                                                                                  Frank Krause

Seminar: Andre Gide, The Immoralist; Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Seminar Questions

In  The Birth of Tragedy 1872) Nietzsche suggests that the metaphysical will operates through both Apollonian drive, which seeks  finite form and the  Dionysian drive which dissolves form. What are the implications of this insight for literature?

Is modern literature attracted to the transgressive dissolution of the self?

Nietzsche writes, 'Art is not an imitation of nature but its metaphorical  supplement' (142). How does this resonate  with what we were discussing last week regarding the differences and similarities between realism and modernism?

Nietzsche suggest that a loss of myth and myth-making (mythopoesis) in a culture leads to a  loss of vitalism and creativity? is this true?

What does N. mean when he talks of 'metaphysical consolation' of art (41)

Week 4

Epic Theatre                                                                                                                                       Frank Krause

Seminar: Bertolt Brecht, St Joan of the Stockyards.

Walter Benjamin, ‘What is Epic Theatre?’; ‘Theses on Philosophy of History’

In addition to the text of the play, we will discuss Brecht's 'Short Organum for the Theatre' (see below)  as well as Walter Benjamin's  'What is Epic Theatre?' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History' .

things to consider

1. what does B's concept  the 'estrangement effect' mean for our discussions of realism in art? why do readers/ audiences need to be estranged ?

2. what is Brecht doing with history in his plays? think about Benjamin here. Is this still relevant for art today ?

3. think about Nietzsche again here --the consolatory aspect of art, the role of the Greek chorus and gestus.

4. Think about the historical contexts in which Brecht politicised theatre.

Week 5

Prophetic Voice in Modern Poetry                                                                                                                                                                Chris Baldick        

              Seminar: T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

              W.B. Yeats, ‘The Second Coming’; ‘Sailing to Byzantium’; ‘Leda & the Swan’; ‘Among          

              School Children’ *; W.H. Auden, ‘O What is that Sound?’ ; ‘A Summer Night’ (‘Out on

              the lawn I lie in bed’); ‘September 1. 1939’; ‘The Fall of Rome.’*

   T.S. Eliot, ‘Ulysses, Order and Myth’* Tradition and The Individual Talent’* (VLE)

WEEK 6 READING WEEK

Week 7

Modernist Narrative                                                                                                                                                                             Lucia Boldrini

Seminar: William Faulkner, The Sound & The Fury; James Joyce, ‘Nausicaa’, ‘Sirens’, ‘Circe’.

Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘On The Sound and the Fury: Time in the Work of Faulkner’, *

Please read the seminar question for  this  week (in doc below): we will try to make links between Joyce, Faulkner, Bergson, Nietzsche, Eliot  and Proust in terms of temporality and narrative:

‘To see existence in 1929 as a presence of fragments often moving to no particular end or recognisable rationale, required of course no special originality of thought. It was becoming clear, through the work of Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, as well as the “process” philosophy of Bergson, that the unbroken continuity of most eighteenth and nineteenth century literature—its leisurely Aristotelian movement thought paraphrasable plot pointedly marked with beginning, middle, and end, to a completed or controlling mythos; or the ordered motion of its lyrics, private and dramatic—must be replaced by the broken verse of The Waste Land and the shifting narrators and shattered time sequence of Nostromo’ (Donald Kartiganer, 1970) p. 614.

Week 8

Existentialism and the Absurd                                                                                                       Carole Sweeney

Seminar: Albert Camus, The Outsider, Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea.

Jean-Paul Sartre, ''Why Write?', from What is Literature

What is Literature?File

Adorno 'Commitment'File

Existentialism notesFile

The Myth of Sisyphus (extract)File

Week 9

Modern to Postmodern                                                                                                         Derval Tubridy

Seminar: Samuel Beckett, The Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (we will focus on the last section in the seminar but you are encouraged to read the whole trilogy)

Beckett bibliographyFile

Barnett Newman paintingURL

The Trilogy-seminar notesFile

Week 10

Post-Holocaust Writing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Rick Crownshaw

Seminar: Primo Levi, If This is a Man, W.G. Sebald, The Emigrants, we will focus on ‘Max Ferber’.

Marianne Hirsch, ‘Surviving Images: Holocaust Photography and the Work of Postmemory’, The Yale Journal of Criticism 12.1 (Spring 2001), 5-38. (VLE)

Postmemory articleFile

reading of If This is a manURL

Holocaust writing lecture notes PPFile

Week 11

Postmodern Fiction                                                                                                                                Tim Parnell

     Seminar: Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

     Jacques Derrida,  Structure, Sign and Play’*;

Roland Barthes, ‘The Death of the Author’ *

Roland Barthes- The Death of the AuthorFile

'Structure, Sign and Play'File

useful article on John BarthFile

'The Literature of Replenishment', John BarthFile

Calvino PP lecture notesFile

[readingaway]

Hmmmm..... I know I’ve already shoved Convenience Store Woman and Black Water Sister at you. Anyway, brace yourself.

The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff

The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez

The Incredible True Story of the Making of The Eve of Destruction - Amy Brashear

All the Young Men - Ruth Coker Burks

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

A Dead Djinn in Cairo (and continue with the next short story and A Master of Djinn) - P Djeli Clark

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

Hot Dog Girl - Jennifer Dugan

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

The Queen of Blood - Sarah Beth Durst

Satellite Love - Genki Ferguson

I Killed Zoe Spanos - Kit Frick

Annie On My Mind - Nancy Garden

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green

A Pure Heart - Rajia Hassib

Carry - Toni Jensen

Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones

Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

The Goddess Chronicle - Natuso Kirino

Something Wilder - Christina Lauren

The Outrun - Amy Liptrot

Deerskin - Robin McKinley

I’m Just a Person - Tig Notaro

Inland - Tea Obreht

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor

Idaho Code - Joan Opyr

Lucky Girl - Jamie Pacton

Idaho - Emily Ruskovitch

The Cat I Never Named - Amra Sabic-El-Rayess

Elantris - Brandon Sanderson

Dress Codes for Small Towns - Courtney Stevens

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Silver in the Wood - Emily Tesh

Saga - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples

On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein

Educated - Tara Westover

A Hundred Summers - Beatriz Williams

The Yield - Tara June Winch

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson

The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham

O Beautiful - Jung Yun

Yolk - Mary H.K. Choi

hope you can find something in here :)

Give me some suggestions! ❤️

[missmaxime]

Get To Know

rules: tag people you’d like to get to know better. I was tagged by @gild-and-fire thanks so much, hun!

favourite colour(s): Purple (like, any. Plum through lavender), coral, dark blue, pink, red. 

last song i listened to: Dear Jessie - Rollergirl (TBH I always listen to either Hardstyle or Eurodance when I’m writing, the beat helps me focus). 

favourite musicians: I have a grossly wide range of music taste haha. I think all time probably P!nk. Other long term favorites are Sia (ever since that Six Feet Under finale I’m so hooked on her), Guns’n’Roses, Michelle Branch, Missy Higgins (who I know because BEFORE youtube existed you had to DOWNLOAD fanvids through megaupload or some shit like some PLEB - And this Faith Lehane fanvid has the song ‘Scar’ on it), Anouk, ABBA, Madonna, Eminem, Panic at the Disco (ok I’m stopping, I could go on forever).

last film i watched: I don’t really watch a lot of movies. Somewhere along the line movies went from 90 minutes, to 120, to even longer and ugh. I just don’t have the patience most of the time. I watched Total Recall (the 1990-only-real-version tyvm) again, and it’s truly iconic, I can’t express my love for 90′s action movies enough. 

last tv show i watched: I just finished watching Westworld season 3 ughhh love that show so much. Other shows I recently watched: Good Girls (who’d have thought), Lucifer (even though it really took a deep dive from me being invested, to more of a wallpapershow), Snowpiercer (LOVE IT), The 100 and Borgen.

favourite character: Elizabeth Irene Boland!! (Please wife me. who’s Rio? I dunno her.) There’s a clear trend in my favorite characters: Cordelia Chase, Lilah Morgan, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce (Angel/BtVS), Birgitte Nyborg (Borgen), Sansa Stark, Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones), Narcissa Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange, Hermione Granger (Harry Potter), Joan Holloway (Mad Men), Adelle De Witt (Dollhouse), Atia of the Julii (Rome), Lucretia (Spartacus), and probably every character ever played by Charlize Theron. (ok I’ll stop now, I could go on forever haha).

sweet, spicy or savoury: Definitely savoury!! Also pretty fond of spicy. Cooking is one of my favorite things to do, so I make a lot of those savoury things myself. And I don’t like sweet, candy is gross, frosting is the devil, chocolate is meh, soda/pop is a terrible invention. 

sparkling water, tea or coffee: C O F F E E!!! I’m sure I drink too much of it, but I love it so much (black, of course. anything else is blasphemy). And for water, If I have to go with sparkling I prefer the ones with the small bubbles (they exist) because I don’t like drinks with big bubbles.

pets: I have a cat. Her official name is Mila, but I actually just call her Poes (which is Dutch for puss). This is her (my mom made this collage when she was staying over with my parents):

tagging @nottonyharrison , @lunafeather , @nakedmonkey , @inyoursheets , @bourbon-ontherocks and anyone else who wants to play! (Also, sorry if you already got tagged! I might have missed a few posts)

When I was growing up we had a black Labrador. And I’d love to have a dog again, but as long as I live alone and work a lot it’s just impossible.

Ohhh and I also have like 25 plants or something!

[tillyonjoy]

💊Backstory

Tilly grew up with her parents and her sister on a smaller island that is now part of the garden district. As a young girl, Tilly's middle-class parents doted on her endlessly, determined to give her a life better than their own. They worked hard to prepare her and her sister for a brighter future, hoping she would marry a wealthy man who could elevate their family's social standing. Rather than letting their coddling spoil her, these experiences led Tilly down a path of empathy and natural trust towards others.

When Tilly was younger, she fell for a man around her age named Peter Wyndham, whom she had met at a social gathering orchestrated by her mother. At the time, he was training to become a military medic and she had just finished her schooling; further apprenticing as a seamstress via a friend of her father's, who worked in the textile industry. 

While not exactly the aristocrat her parents had hoped for, her parents overall approved of their relationship– most likely due to his noble last name, regardless of his debatable affiliation. They were married by the next year. She soon found her new life to be very isolating and suffocating. Tilly was so closed off from the outside world that when her parents died during a German bombing, the only person who told her was her husband. Tilly was expecting twins at this time, and the abrupt death of her parents gave her the names she was looking for to name her kids: Winifred and Chester. 

When the Very Bad Thing occured, Winnie and Chester were under 13, and Tilly was forced to give them up. The 6 years between that incident and the introduction of Joy to the population was pure chaos for her. She kept her head down, and brought back her old skills as a seamstress to make ends meet while her husband worked on transitioning his career from military man to doctor.

Tilly's older sister, Joan Bright, her brother-in-law, Pv. Jonathan Bright, and two nephews, Nathaniel and Benson; mysteriously vanished a few months before the beginning of the Very Bad Thing. This is another memory she often tries to avoid thinking about, as Tilly and Joan were once quite close as kids.

When Joy was still being perfected, Tilly was one of the first test subjects to use it. After working as a freelance seamstress for a scientist of Haworth Labs, Tilly was informed of the trial runs for the drug, and was quick to volunteer. It only took one pill for her to realize this was exactly what she was missing in life. Joy effectively hid the loneliness and despair Tilly held away from herself. 

At first, Tilly's husband couldn't have been happier. Not only was he relieved of tending to her emotional needs, but as a doctor seeking employment, her volunteer work had secured him a position at Haworth Labs. He'd only regret this once Tilly started her “tea parties.”

Following encouragement given by the scientists of Haworth Labs shortly after Joy was officially released for public consumption, Tilly held tea parties in which the use of Joy was encouraged and served on platters alongside lovely cakes and cookies she baked herself. She was one of the many early Joy adopters who normalized its frequent use for others. 

After being lonely in her marriage for so long, Tilly found herself surrounded by people just like her. She still hosts these Joy tea parties to this day. She pretends not to notice her dwindling guests. She pretends not to notice the sawdust she now has to cut the flour for her cookies with. She pretends not to notice her husband's increasing emotional distance. She pretends not to notice an awful lot of things, including her own deepening ennui.

When life annoys, pop a joy! 💊

[kwebtv]

The Crimson Field  -  BBC One  -  April 6, 2014 - May 11, 2014

Drama (6 episodes)

Running Time

Stars;

Rupert Graves as Major Edward Crecy

Oona Chaplin as Kitty Trevelyan

Hermione Norris as Grace Carter

Suranne Jones as Sister Joan Livesey

Kevin Doyle as Lt Col Roland Brett

Kerry Fox as Sister Margaret Quayle

Alex Wyndham as Captain Miles Hesketh-Thorne

Jeremy Swift as Quartermaster Sergeant Reggie Soper

Richard Rankin as Captain Thomas Gillan

Marianne Oldham as Rosalie Berwick

Alice St. Clair as Flora Marshall

Jack Gordon as Orderly Corporal Peter Foley

Adam James as Colonel Charles Purbright