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Michael Anson
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“But modernism remains deeply curious about the family; like their contemporaries Freud and Woolf, Joyce and Proust in fact intensify the focus on the life of the bourgeois nuclear family. What the modernists do break with, though, are the plots of marriage and paternity that had become almost standard in the English nineteenth-century novel.”
― In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust
― In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust
“I will have but one mistress and no master”
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“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
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“But in the genealogical plots of Dickens, which manage, against all the odds, and through extravagantly implausible coincidences, to work themselves out against the hostile background of the vast London crowds, we can identify the same narratological problem to which Joyce and Proust seek a queer structural solution: the competition for control of the narrative between the genealogical family and alternative forms of human connections.”
― In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust
― In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust
The Reading For Pleasure Book Club
— 3829 members
— last activity 3 hours, 58 min ago
This is a book club where we will share our current reads in ebooks, regular books, audiobooks, graphic novels and more. This is where we can all shar ...more
Oprah's Book Club (Official)
— 84608 members
— last activity 3 hours, 6 min ago
Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more
Should have read classics
— 1118 members
— last activity Apr 17, 2020 07:38PM
This is a group that is reading some of the classics that maybe we should have read but we got so turned off by "classics" we had to read in high scho ...more
The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group
— 31734 members
— last activity 39 minutes ago
“It was a dark and stormy night. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled across the sky. Rain spattered a mysterious, hooded stranger who peered over the ...more
Sugar Grove Readers
— 5 members
— last activity Aug 03, 2013 09:56AM
This group started with the membership of the Tuesday night adult book discussion group at the Sugar Grove Library.
Michael’s 2024 Year in Books
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