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🎭 Ah yes, nothing screams modern literary analysis like a pretentious deep dive into Luigi Pirandello's existential crisis in "Broken Men." 📝 Join The Nation as they bravely attempt to dissect the psyche of fictional Italians, while you try not to forget your password or your will to live. 😂
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/luigi-pirandello-one-none-grand-review/ #literaryanalysis #LuigiPirandello #BrokenMen #existentialcrisis #TheNation #humor #HackerNews #ngated

Blood Meridian Is Filmable Now, Actually: Shock, Cinema, and the End of the “Unadaptable” Myth

Content Advisory:This post references difficult historical themes, intense subject matter, and emotionally heavy ideas. While specific details are intentionally softened and indirect, readers should be aware that Blood Meridian is widely known for confronting humanity’s darker chapters. For decades, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West has occupied a peculiar, almost legendary place in conversations about literature and film. It is frequently described as “unfilmable,” […]

https://jaimedavid.blog/2025/12/20/13/18/21/analysis/jaimedavid327/8759/blood-meridian-is-filmable-now-actually-shock-cinema-and-the-end-of-the-unadaptable-myth/

I watched Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, and what comes to mind is: misquoted. As well-made as the film is, I’m left with a strong sense of disappointment.

Ho visto il Frankenstein di Guillermo del Toro, e la parola che mi viene in mente è: travisato. Per quanto il film sia ben fatto, alla fine mi resta un forte disappunto.

One detail, in particular, strikes: Del Toro ends his film inspired by Mary Shelley with a quote by Lord Byron!?

Un dettaglio, in particolare, colpisce: Del Toro chiude il suo film ispirato a Mary Shelley con una citazione di Lord Byron!?

A symbolic gesture, but symbols matter.
Un gesto simbolico, ma i simboli contano.

Today, you, director, draw inspiration from a woman who, at eighteen, wrote a masterpiece that continues to inspire readers, writers, musicians, and filmmakers… and what do you do? You end your film with a quote by Lord Byron? As if Mary Shelley hadn’t written countless lines that left a mark. As if Mary Shelley had ever needed a man to legitimise her. Seriously?

Oggi, tu, regista, trai spunto da una donna che a 18 anni ha scritto un capolavoro che continua a ispirare lettori, scrittori, musicisti, registi… e cosa fai? Chiudi con una citazione di Lord Byron? Come se Mary Shelley non avesse scritto un’infinità di frasi che hanno lasciato il segno. Come se Mary Shelley avesse mai avuto bisogno di essere legittimata da un uomo. Ma davvero?

If this isn’t patriarchal culture…
Se non è cultura patriarcale questa…

Ne ho scritto più approfonditamente sul mio blog.
I wrote about this in more depth on my blog.

🔗 EN → https://tinyurl.com/msc74hc7
🔗 IT → https://tinyurl.com/2pyk3ud2

#GuillermoDelToro #Frankenstein #MaryShelley #patriarchy #filmreview #LiteraryAnalysis #patriarcato #books #feminism

📚 A trio of literary minds dissect Heaney's poems like they're trying to perform surgery with a spork. 🤔 Prepare for an avalanche of pretentious insights that'll have you longing for the simplicity of a greeting card. 🥱
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen-the-spade-2 #literaryanalysis #poetry #Heaney #pretentiousinsights #creativewriting #bookdiscussion #HackerNews #ngated

🚨 Ah, another literary analysis masquerading as a book review. Apparently, Thomas Pynchon's latest hero is a spaghetti-twirling, bomb-dodging, amiable behemoth. 🙄 Who knew solving mysteries involved so much pasta? 🍝👏
https://www.bookforum.com/print/3202/if-the-gumshoe-fits-62416 #literaryanalysis #bookreview #ThomasPynchon #spaghetti #mysteryhumor #pasta #HackerNews #ngated

#terrypratchett #johnseavey #metacrisis #socialjustice #satire #literaryanalysis

Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial
assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he'd
thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the
margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins, orcs and trolls could
think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes?
It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under
the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone
green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist's sword. Much of the urgency in Pratchett's last few books seemed to be related to
them. There's only one true evil in the world," his characters said ‘And that's treating people like they were things ’ In the last of his grown- up Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have
only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people.
Golems are people. Dwarves are people. They do not become any less
people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be
instead of the one society forces on them. The only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don't even understand how pathetic they are grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with.
— John Seavey, The Evolution of the Disc (excerpt)

Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin in Jaclyn Lurker's ongoing "Year of Sherlock" series. This "Poe Reprise" explores how Dupin's methodical approach in just three stories created the entire consulting detective archetype. From locked room mysteries to armchair detection, Poe established conventions that Doyle would later perfect with Holmes.
#EdgarAllanPoe #SherlockHolmes #DetectiveFiction #LiteraryAnalysis #Mystery #ClassicLiterature #BookLovers https://jaclynalurker.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-year-of-sherlock-august-2025-poe.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawMhfnVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFnOUd6VDNIdXNSOFpXMnVlAR7mJiUntKe4T6CZ77ufsoxfWvPvF2yOMdhicYwqrQVVLPZ5NdrIHGQVf8xQBQ_aem_IEj_BfoNRBXH6ERWLI9d_A

Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting isn’t only about needles. It’s about stripping illusions.

It’s subversive, unsentimental, and it refuses to dress up death in borrowed dignity. That’s why Welsh still matters.

Blog: https://philosophics.blog/2025/08/28/trainspotting/
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/45ILmJRyKXIfFoTH71JDvj?si=73WVlRJSQDKFwgkNHbweVg

#BookVsMovie #FilmAdaptation #BookLovers #Film #Cinema #Storytelling #BookCommunity #Movie #Movies #Literature #Narrative #AmReading #AmWatching #Trainspotting #Class #Imperialism #LiteraryAnalysis #Books #Philosophy #Politics

https://www.wacoca.com/life/290165/ Havoc 🌍⚔️ – A Tale of Intrigue and Betrayal #audiobooks #BookNarration #BookRecommendations #BookReview #booktube #ClassicLiterature #ClassicTales #Drama #E.PhillipsOppenheim #espionage #HandCream #Havoc #HistoricalFiction #LiteraryAnalysis #LiteratureLovers #Mystery #NarrativeArt #PoliticalIntrigue #ReadersOfYoutube #ReadingCommunity #Storytelling #storytime #SubscribeNow #Suspense #thriller #TOCCA（トッカ）ハンドクリームクレオパトラの香り #YouTubeLiterature #yt:cc=on

“War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.”
Our 1984 breakdown decodes Big Brother, Newspeak, Doublethink, and why Orwell keeps trending in the age of surveillance and “alternative facts.”
Are we reading a novel or a manual? 🔎
https://theurbanherald.com/1984-book-summary-and-analysis-george-orwell/

#GeorgeOrwell #1984 #BigBrother #Newspeak #Doublethink #DystopianFiction #LiteraryAnalysis #Surveillance #MediaLiteracy #Propaganda #ClassicLiterature #Censorship #TruthMatters

https://youtu.be/HekRNUsu9S0

And now for something completely different

#OneTakeMan #InOneTake #JustForFun #Politics #Theory #Analysis #PoliticalTheory #PoliticalAnalysis #LiteraryAnalysis #LazyTown

"Though this be madness, yet there's method in it." Jaclyn Lurker brilliantly explores how Shakespeare's words about Hamlet perfectly describe Sherlock Holmes centuries later. Fascinating parallels between detective work and apparent madness in classic literature.
#SherlockHolmes #Hamlet #ClassicLiterature #DetectiveFiction #LiteraryAnalysis #Shakespeare #BookLovers
https://jaclynalurker.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-year-of-sherlock-2025-july-method.html?m=1&fbclid=IwY2xjawL5CcFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtwUGkRlq7vJB2UOE2ceTnkTjH0U7y4_GyXGWqw3_KhgeJerWUVVaZuVfsaF_aem_lrja8Ttl5nufD5TzleECWg

https://www.wacoca.com/life/283683/ Berenice 🌌🔍 | A Tale of Mystery and Intrigue #AUDIOBOOK #Berenice #BookClub #BookDiscussion #BookLovers #BookRecommendation #ClassicFiction #ClassicLiterature #CreepyStories #E.PhillipsOppenheim #EmotionalJourney #Fiction #FictionalCharacters #HandCream #HauntingTales #LiteraryAnalysis #literature #LoveAndMadness #Mystery #ObsessiveLove #PsychologicalThriller #ReadingCommunity #Storytelling #storytime #thriller #Ukaハンドクリーム24:45 #yt:cc=on

Jaclyn Lurker's thoughtful exploration of "gaslight" and "grotesque" in the Sherlock Holmes canon reveals how Victorian literature anticipated modern psychological concepts. Her analysis connects Doyle's word choices to contemporary understanding of manipulation and criminal behavior.
#SherlockHolmes #LiteraryAnalysis #Victorian #Etymology #ClassicLiterature #Mastodon
The Year of Sherlock - June 2025 (Gaslight and the Grotesque) | The Literary Lurker
https://jaclynalurker.blogspot.com/?view=classic

T.S. Eliot's Prufrock isn't just about modernist angst.

For many of us, it's a devastatingly accurate portrait of neurodivergent paralysis and the exhaustion of masking.

At least, since my late diagnosis and revisiting this poem, it is now my revised view.

In my new article for Sonnet Sleuths, I explore the poem through my own lens as a queer, disabled, and AuDHD educator.

https://medium.com/@dwtutoringeducation/sonnetsleuths-medium-com-prufrock-neurodivergent-analysis-82b1304427c9

#TSEliot #Poetry #LiteraryAnalysis #Neurodiversity #DisabilityTwitter #ActuallyAutistic

😂 Oh look, the NY Times wants us to know that Jane Austen was actually an avant-garde rebel and we're all too dense to get it. 📚🤦‍♂️ They even weave in a tech tutorial: "enable JS, disable ad blocker"—because nothing screams literary analysis like browser settings! 🙄🚫
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/books/review/jane-austen-mansfield-park.html #NYTimes #JaneAusten #AvantGarde #LiteraryAnalysis #TechHumor #BrowserSettings #HackerNews #ngated

Jane Austen's Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/books/review/jane-austen-mansfield-park.html

#HackerNews #JaneAusten #MansfieldPark #Literature #BookReview #ClassicLiterature #LiteraryAnalysis

Intentional math errors in David Foster Wallace's work (2009)

https://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/dubious-math-in-infinite-jest.html

#HackerNews #IntentionalMathErrors #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #LiteraryAnalysis #MathInLiterature

The Cunning and the Cost

This short passage, written in a restrained, almost documentary prose, begins like a naturalist's field notes. We are told of the cunning and caution of the Ussuri panther—an intelligent beast, attempting to outwit the humans who track it. The writing builds a sense of respect for the animal, detailing its clever strategy of hiding on a bough opposite its tracks, a creature perfectly in tune with its environment.

But the tone shifts sharply and brutally in the final three sentences. The narrative of a living, thinking creature is severed by the cold, detached line: "When we skinned the panther..." In that moment, a beautiful nature sketch transforms into a quiet tragedy about the collision of two worlds. The story is not just about a hunt; it's about the abrupt and final cost that the wilderness pays when it encounters man.

A powerful reminder that behind every trophy lies a story of intelligence and a lost fight.

#BookReview #ShortStory #LiteraryAnalysis #ManVsNature #RussianLiterature #HuntingStories #UssuriTaiga #Wildlife #NatureWriting #Bookstagram #WhatToRead #ClassicLiterature #StoryAnalysis