Tag Archives: classics

Guest review: Sam Cooney on Mark Mordue’s Dastgah

July 21, 2009 – 8:05 am

Dastgah, Mark Mordue
Allen & Unwin (2001, Australia).
Also published overseas.
Review by Sam Cooney.
Dastgah is an account of Australian writer, journalist and editor Mark Mordue’s first trip overseas: a one-year journey through the regions of India, Nepal, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Iran, and the cities of Paris and New York. The blurb calls it ‘a refined [...]

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Read and Seen: Revolutionary Road

February 17, 2009 – 10:49 pm

The first in a series of simultaneous book and film reviews by LiteraryMinded’s Angela Meyer and Celluloid Tongue’s Gerard Elson.
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
(orig. 1961, several editions)
Angela says…
Revolutionary Road opens with a moody series of observances and a sense of foreboding – 1955, Western Connecticut, settled yet restless characters, cars too large and gleaming, a community play, [...]

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Two Hamlets

December 2, 2008 – 7:43 am

Hamlet: A Novel, John Marsden, Text, 9781921351471, 2008 (Australia) + Hamlet(film), directed by Kenneth Branagh, 1996.
John Marsden has always had a distinct ability to grasp and express adolescent experience. His Hamlet: a Novel is highly accessible for an audience familiar with heightened perceptions of desire, deception, unfairness, traps, loneliness, defiance, and existential angst.
If you are familiar with the play [...]

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Literature Aspiring Writers Should Read – Part 2

January 29, 2008 – 1:37 pm

Faces in the Water – Janet Frame (1961)
Skills acquired by reading:
~ The way to create an external world and circumstances that symbolise or reflect an internal one.
~ The way to express loneliness, emptiness, and deprivation in subtle, tugging ways.
~ The way to write about large-scale oppression and unfairness in society by focusing on micro-world experiences.
~ [...]

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Humbert’s Journey of Self – a mini analysis of ‘Lolita’

September 13, 2007 – 7:45 am

Humbert Humbert, deceptively narrates a journey of self in Lolita (Nabokov 2006) attempting to justify actions that the reader may find morally problematic. He is both aware of the societally placed reader, whom he often refers to as judge or juror (eg. on the very first page) and he weaves a seductive lyrical web to [...]

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Humbert’s Journey of Self – a mini analysis of ‘Lolita’

September 13, 2007 – 7:45 am

Humbert Humbert, deceptively narrates a journey of self in Lolita (Nabokov 2006) attempting to justify actions that the reader may find morally problematic. He is both aware of the societally placed reader, whom he often refers to as judge or juror (eg. on the very first page) and he weaves a seductive lyrical web to [...]

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Humbert’s Journey of Self – a mini analysis of ‘Lolita’

September 13, 2007 – 7:45 am

Humbert Humbert, deceptively narrates a journey of self in Lolita (Nabokov 2006) attempting to justify actions that the reader may find morally problematic. He is both aware of the societally placed reader, whom he often refers to as judge or juror (eg. on the very first page) and he weaves a seductive lyrical web to [...]

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