Troilus and Cressida is Shakespeare's perspective on the Trojan War, not so much from Homer, but from Chaucer, whose source was apparently Italian ( Read more... )

The next film assignment has four options, but the one that appeals to me is an analysis of one or more time-travel movies, so I've been trying to think of time-travel movies that I've seen ( Read more... )

Got the course guide today, so I've been busily ordering DVDs this morning. In approximate order of study ( Read more... )

stephanie_pegg once recalled a time when she was taken off some or other project and asked to help her boss's child with some or other school assignment. Well, recently the opposite happened to me: I was taken off some or other project to help set a school assignment for physics. I didn't quite get to grips with whether it was bursary equivalent or only sixth ( Read more... )

So, it's nearly 2:30PM. I have written roughly 1200 words of 2000. I have said everything I want to say about language in the novels. Sure, I could dredge out more examples and beat my point to death, but ... I don't feel like it ( Read more... )

Going back to my real area of expertise for a moment: Literature.
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I realized today tht it's been a long time since I talked about design philosophy. I've been offering some guidance on some structural analysis software for earthquake design to two colleagues over the past few days. Whenever embarking on the analysis and design process for the first time, in this case theirs rather than mine, you are forced to ( Read more... )

As you might know, stephanie_pegg and I (and one or two others) are going to Greece this summer, and are doing some fundraising. To that end, we present the Classics Club Fundraiser Movie Night:

Mighty AphroditeA Woody Allen movie about a couple whose adopted son Max turns out to be brilliant. Lenny becomes obsessed with finding his birth mother who turns out ( Read more... )

Today in my "Post-colonial" literature paper we had a whole-class debate on "Is Joseph Conrad, in the words of Chinua Achebe, a 'bloody racist ( Read more... )

Each semester, as I reach the zenith of my intellectual powers, I prepare a brief summary of the material, occasionally studious, often light hearted and hopefully tied into personal experience; the better that in combining these qualities, I will recollect the material and understand it thoroughly. You were spared before BAAAAA because, frankly, I ( Read more... )