Category: WB Column
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Experiencing That Dragon, Cancer
Read more: Experiencing That Dragon, CancerI put off writing this for a long time, which is unusual for a text about a video game. Then again, I put off playing that videogame for an even longer time, because I was afraid of playing it. Now I’m putting off actually introducing it… I’m writing to you today about That Dragon, Cancer,…
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Spread the Word
Read more: Spread the WordThere’s a big chance that you are a user of social media, and that you are familiar with the annoying social media sharer that posts photos of their personal life a bit too much for your liking. This is exactly what I have been thinking about for the past couple of days; why exactly…
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Objectified Scotsmen and Hunky Gladiators, or on the Sexualisation of the Modern Man
Read more: Objectified Scotsmen and Hunky Gladiators, or on the Sexualisation of the Modern ManOne of the things that I like to show friends is the Tumblr page Wtf Bad Romance Covers which is filled with tacky and camp covers of Candlelight Novels. Every Thursday is “Objectified Scotsmen Thursday” and on this wonderful day the blog delights its followers with cheap covers with entertainingly awkwardly posing “Scottish” hunks,…
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Behind the Classic 3: Marital Intimacy and Women’s Rights in Jude the Obscure
Read more: Behind the Classic 3: Marital Intimacy and Women’s Rights in Jude the ObscureThis instalment of the Behind the Classic series looks at the women’s rights movement of the nineteenth century that forms the political backdrop of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure. More specifically, it will discuss the issue of sex – or, to speak in more appropriate, Victorian terms – “conjugal rights” and a woman’s right to…
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Pulp Fiction: I Read Crap and I Struggle with Literature. Shoot Me.
Read more: Pulp Fiction: I Read Crap and I Struggle with Literature. Shoot Me.Forgive me, Dante, for I am a sinner. I confess. Do not judge me too harshly, oh Joyce, Tolstoy, Waugh, Saramago, and other greats that collect my dust instead of my readership. I mean well. I feel genuine pleasure and admiration when I muster the will and energy to read your famous words, but that…
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