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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Literary Themes</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/literary-themes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:23:39 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: Method In Our Movie Madness</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20598</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20598#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:42:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Band Of Brothers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Bronson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[George Clooney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ides Of March]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies action]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[North by Northwest]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ryan Gosling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shakespeare]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Where Eagles Dare]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20598</guid> <description><![CDATA[The practice of blessing mass entertainment with the bard's prose confers a kind of loftiness upon it, or at least that must be the idea. A quick glance indicates that Shakespeare has provided titles for an alarming number of <em>Star Trek</em> episodes, just for starters. This week, lend your ears to Brett Harrison Davinger and me (Dan Fields) as we look at some of our favorite films to borrow a title from the works of Shakespeare.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20598/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion by Janet Mullany</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19605</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19605#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:30:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jane Austen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vampires]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19605</guid> <description><![CDATA[At root, the novel seems to rest on a misapprehension: that the world of Jane Austen would be more exciting if it had vampires in it.  During it, we discover that in the first draft of <em>Mansfield Park</em>, Fanny was, in fact, one of said bloodthirsty beasties.  Did anyone ever read <em>Mansfield Park</em> and think “Not bad, but it could do with more of the undead”?]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19605/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Trailer Watch: Martin Scorsese&#8217;s Hugo</title><link>http://calitreview.com/18531</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/18531#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:25:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Children's Literature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ben kingsley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chloë Grace Moretz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[films fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Harry Potter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hugo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hugo Cabret]]></category> <category><![CDATA[literary adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie trailer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sacha baron cohen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Invention Of Hugo Cabret]]></category> <category><![CDATA[trailer]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=18531</guid> <description><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese, Hollywood titan, enjoys a special reputation for directing violent, foul-mouthed crime flicks. Admittedly, he does this very well, but the notoriety of movies like Taxi Driver, Casino, and most recently The Departed tends to eclipse the true diversity and scope of his body of work. Even when his choice of material seems misguided, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/18531/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Beautiful &amp; Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr</title><link>http://calitreview.com/18127</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/18127#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Abigail Licad</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=18127</guid> <description><![CDATA[Except for a (thankfully) brief, unscientific use of Google metrics, Orr beautifully shares instances of why one might fall in love with poetry. He recounts his life-changing discovery of the poet Philip Larkin, and his experience of helping his father, a stroke victim, improve his speech through readings of Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussycat.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/18127/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bloody Sexy Things: Adapting Clive Barker</title><link>http://calitreview.com/17928</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/17928#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:21:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gay and Lesbian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graphic Novels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[authors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Candyman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clive Barker]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hellraiser]]></category> <category><![CDATA[midnight meat train]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nightbreed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[screenwriting]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=17928</guid> <description><![CDATA[Clive Barker has lent his eyes and hands to virtually every medium, from page to the screen to the stage to the canvas to the console. However, film fans know him particularly as a horror master. There is so much undermined material for gifted fantasy filmmakers that perhaps we could dispense with further <em>Candyman</em> sequels and retire the <em>Hellraiser</em> juggernaut with contented hearts, and enjoy a Clive Barker renaissance clad in all new colors.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/17928/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: On Adapting The Classics</title><link>http://calitreview.com/14709</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/14709#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:10:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic novels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Lean]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elia Kazan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jane Eyre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Steinbeck]]></category> <category><![CDATA[literary adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oliver Twist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Roman Polanski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[To Kill A Mockingbird]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=14709</guid> <description><![CDATA[With the arrival of Jane Eyre from Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga, we see another standard of the English-class bookshelf put to the screen. Mia Wasikowska, lately of Alice In Wonderland, headlines as the eponymous Jane, in a very Gothic-looking version of Charlotte Brontë&#8217;s best known novel. As I recall, it is quite a dark [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/14709/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: A Question Of Identity</title><link>http://calitreview.com/14225</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/14225#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:33:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[identity crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Liam Neeson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies suspense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=14225</guid> <description><![CDATA[Identity is a wonderful device for deception and suspense in storytelling. In some cases a whole plot hinges on whether or not someone is who they claim to be. The quest for identity, whether inwardly or outwardly direction, may lead to all manner of obsession, danger, and mischief.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/14225/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brighton Rock Rises Again. Graham Greene Abides.</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13205</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13205#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brighton Rock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crime movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gangster movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graham Greene]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Helen Mirren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Hurt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies suspense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Attenborough]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rowan Joffé]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rown Joffe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sam Riley]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13205</guid> <description><![CDATA[Acclaimed screenwriter Rowan Joffé will try his hand at the directing game next year. For his debut, he has selected an auspiciously high-profile story. <em>Brighton Rock</em>, adapted from Graham Greene's 1938 novel, is a captivating crime thriller and a chilling exploration of the human capacity for love, betrayal and violence. If all goes right, this will be one beautiful and scary film.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13205/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Watchful Eye On&#8230; Sherlock Holmes</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13060</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13060#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:10:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arthur conan doyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benedict Cumberbatch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guy Ritchie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hartswood Films]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jude Law]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Freeman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Downey Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sir arthur conan doyle]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13060</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character still has potential in a new context. The only rule is not to stray from the unique faculties that make Sherlock such a distinctive and popular hero. If the story's focus ceases to be the detective's brilliant deductive logic, then the magic is lost and the character wasted. If, however, due attention and respect are paid to this detail, the rest is free and open to broader interpretation. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13060/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles</title><link>http://calitreview.com/12937</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/12937#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:46:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bad movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[best movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Harry Potter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[I Love You Phillip Morris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie title]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie titles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[North by Northwest]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=12937</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it is based on a very subtle detail in the story, which only becomes clear after multiple viewings. Sometimes a flaw in the film's execution simply fails to bring out the significance of the title. And sometimes movies just have stupid titles. This week, William Bibbiani and I (Dan Fields) meditate upon the sticky subject of Movie Naming.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/12937/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: Worlds Of Fancy And Other Wondrous Places</title><link>http://calitreview.com/12731</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/12731#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:20:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mythology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chronicles of Narnia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fairy Tales]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fantasy world]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fringe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guillermo del Toro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Harry Potter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hayao Miyazaki]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies animation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies satire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies sci fi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Science Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pan's Labyrinth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Star Wars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Studio Ghibli]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Terry Gilliam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Empire Strikes Back]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tim Burton]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Triplets of Belleville]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=12731</guid> <description><![CDATA[A cleverly rendered fantasy world has the power to make us believe astounding things, and to transport us to places we may never have imagined ourselves. In the history of film there have been countless attempts to take real-world places and performers outside the realm of what has been seen before, and into far-off lands where the amazing, the terrifying, and the marvelous lurk around every corner. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/12731/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise</title><link>http://calitreview.com/12538</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/12538#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Children Of Paradise]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic French film]]></category> <category><![CDATA[French film]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jacques Prevert]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marcel Carne]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies french]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies nostalgia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pantomime]]></category> <category><![CDATA[theatre]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=12538</guid> <description><![CDATA[A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse them, disgust them, terrify them, or in all too many cases bore them. One thing only a handful of films can do is inspire wonder. Every once in a while, a winning combination of writer, director, designers, composers and cast meet in perfect harmony. Such, I feel, is the case of Marcel Carné's 1945 epic romance, <em>Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise)</em>.
]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/12538/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein</title><link>http://calitreview.com/4865</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/4865#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:46:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1930s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4865</guid> <description><![CDATA[It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the United States held firm during the Great Depression. Weekly trips to the neighborhood movie house, looking at photos of a revitalized nation in <em>Life Magazine</em>, listening to President Roosevelt's Fireside Chats on the radio, following the home team in the still vigorous daily newspapers, these rituals of daily life were the principal means of keeping faith in America's future, of believing that the only thing to fear was fear itself.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4865/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands</title><link>http://calitreview.com/2408</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/2408#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:53:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Boer War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Erskine Childers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[European history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Riddle of the Sands]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War I]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2408</guid> <description><![CDATA[Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a tale of adventure with the reality of Britain’s imperial overreach thus beginning a genre that – as continued by the likes of Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carré – has matured into one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the literate world.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2408/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1799</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1799#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:52:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>David Loftus</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pierre Bayard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1799</guid> <description><![CDATA[These books are indeed a kind of witty parlor game, certainly. But though Bayard occasionally gallops into the high alpine meadows of literary and psychoanalytic theory, he still sticks closely to the text he’s given. And though he probably doesn’t believe half of what he’s saying, it does pass the logical plausibility test.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1799/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>12</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Right Side of the Tracks</title><link>http://calitreview.com/682</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/682#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 16:15:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=682</guid> <description><![CDATA[Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety about them. The ability to travel across Britain at such speeds was exciting, but also potentially unsettling for a social system which still, in many ways, preferred that people remained “in their place”. When Sir Henry Baskerville is being followed by an unknown bearded man in London, he suspects it may be the butler from Baskerville Hall, and sends a telegram to check whether or not “Barrymore is at his post in Devonshire.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/682/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Murdering Miss Austen</title><link>http://calitreview.com/292</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/292#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:14:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jane Austen]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/12/06/murdering-miss-austen/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jane Austen, whose sharp tongue barely left her cheek during her short lifetime, and, whose caustic satire survived the intervening centuries of industrialization, through revolution and war, as well as the whirligig of literary fashions (whose onslaught took down others as great) may finally be deflated or drowned in the crazy waves of idiot’s delights!]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/292/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brontë in Brussels</title><link>http://calitreview.com/213</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/213#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:21:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Trilby Kent</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brontë]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//2007/06/11/bronte-in-brussels/</guid> <description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled upon a scene which would have appealed to Brontë’s eye for cross-cultural interactions: under the gaze of a watchful Sphinx, a group of Indians were struggling to teach some Belgian children the game of cricket.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/213/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World&#8217;s Best Poems</title><link>http://calitreview.com/104</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/104#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:20:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>James Hollis</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Camille Paglia]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//fiction-reviews/break-blow-burn-camille-paglia-reads-forty-three-of-the-worlds-best-poems/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Blest be anyone who, in this age of meretricious materialism, nascent narcissism, and hapless hedonism, returns us to poetry, to the joy of language for its own sake, for its distilled passion, and for its summons to discipline, in both writer and reader.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/104/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Between Alpha and Omega: Some Observations on Poetry and Poetry’s Task in our Time</title><link>http://calitreview.com/50</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/50#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:09:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//essays/between-alpha-and-omega-some-observations-on-poetry-and-poetry%e2%80%99s-task-in-our-time/</guid> <description><![CDATA[We lived heretofore in the multitude of villages scattered world-wide amongst the ruins of the Tower of Babel.  Civilization’s tapestry, its complicated patterns interwoven from multitudes of poets and poetries, once covered their walls and held our attention.  Will there come to be in the global village but one faceless, boring bard who speaks with the reduced, infinitely reductive voice the simplified and platitudinous messages of the Media?]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/50/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Archival Culture(s)</title><link>http://calitreview.com/47</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/47#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:46:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//uncategorized/archival-cultures/</guid> <description><![CDATA[It is scarcely news that in a vast, pluralistic country like the United States, minorities should feel themselves threatened with absorption into the larger society, and that they should cling to some form of cultural identity. It begins poignantly when school children pledge allegiance to “ &#8230; one nation, indivisible, with freedom and justice for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/47/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Borges: A Poet&#8217;s Quest for Simplicity</title><link>http://calitreview.com/43</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/43#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:29:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Miha Pintaric</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[J. L. Borges]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//essays/borges-a-poets-quest-for-simplicity/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Simplicity requires oneness. If you want to be someone, you are two and you are not simple. If you want to be simple, you are also two and you are not simple.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/43/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>No Heroes Need Apply</title><link>http://calitreview.com/29</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/29#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:06:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mythology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nietzsche]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//essays/no-heroes-need-apply/</guid> <description><![CDATA[By the time we come to T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway in the 1920’s, we find a hero characteristic of the period of entre les deux guerres: he is either passive and/or maimed in his masculinity; that is, fatally in his (phallic) heroism.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/29/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Stemming from … Nowhere?</title><link>http://calitreview.com/26</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/26#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:48:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aldous Huxley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[D.H. Lawrence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[T.S. Eliot]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yeats]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//essays/stemming-from-%e2%80%a6-nowhere/</guid> <description><![CDATA[To sum up in a phrase the true and deepest character of Lawrence's genius, it was given by his close friend Aldous Huxley in an introduction to the first collected letters shortly after his death: he was a mystical materialist.  And thereon hangs the tale I shall unfold.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/26/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lola! Lola! Lola!</title><link>http://calitreview.com/23</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/23#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:41:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//essays/lola-lola-lola/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The notion of Art's secular epiphany takes us to Vladimir Nabokov, a reader of Joyce.  As I recall, it was about 1956 or so that an excerpt of his then unpublishable LOLITA appeared in an early number of Anchor Review.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/23/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Life of R.K. Narayan</title><link>http://calitreview.com/21</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/21#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:26:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nandan Datta</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[India]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[R.K. Narayan]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//essays/the-life-of-rk-narayan/</guid> <description><![CDATA[R.K. Narayan Narayan&#8217;s fiction rarely addresses political issues or high philosophy. He writes with grace and humor, about a fictional town Malgudi and its inhabitants; and their little lives. Narayan is a classic teller of tales; an enduring appeal springs from his canvas where common men and women of all times and places are joined [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/21/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>60</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Nick Bottom&#8217;s Blessing</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:24:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//essays/nick-bottoms-blessing/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The relativism that relishes diversity for diversity's sake is one that eschews æsthetic judgment or choice.  Both however are necessary.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision</title><link>http://calitreview.com/8</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/8#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:33:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nandan Datta</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[India]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rabindranath Tagore]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//essays/festival-of-the-earth-rabindranath-tagore%e2%80%99s-environmental-vision/</guid> <description><![CDATA[I knew it occurred every Autumn. And every Autumn I intended to go. And after many trials and as many errors, I finally made it one August. It was the festival of the earth. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/8/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Watchman, What of the Night?</title><link>http://calitreview.com/5</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/5#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:59:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//essays/literary-themes/watchman-what-of-the-night/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The novel as a perpetually-remade form of high style and sophistication is, in our commerce, scarcely recognized, let alone understood.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/5/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
