LIST OF MUSES
Monthly Muse the Eleventh & Twelveth
The noble and beautiful girl who insisted upon being born into the Mill on
the Floss is the most obvious example of the ruin which a heroine can strew
about her.´ Virginia Woolf, from The Common Reader.
more...Monthly Muse the Tenth
‘My letters! All dead paper…mute and white!
And yet they seem alive and quivering…´
(Sonnets from the Portuguese xxviii)
more...Monthly Muse the Ninth
‘My Last Duchess´ (Ferrara) by Robert Browning
The enjoyment of reading this poem results from our reconstruction of a different story from the one the Duke thinks he is telling.
more...Monthly Muse the Eighth
'I've written another misery! But I had to
do it! I had to do it!' Mysteriosa celebrates Samuel Beckett's centenary.
more...Monthly Muse the Sixth and Seventh
As Djuna Barnes - the Garbo of literature - put it: "I am the most famous unknown of the century".
more...Monthly Muse the Fifth
The androgynous imagination contd. –Henry James and ‘variant´ women – Henry James: decadent late romantic – the sexual ambivalence of Henry James – ‘our passion is our task´
more...Monthly Muse the Fourth
In which Virginia Woolf, in a manner of speaking, morphs into Mick Jagger.
more...Monthly muse the third
Virginia woolf – life as art – the longest love letter in literature - the androgynous imagination
more...Monthly Muse the second
Death of the author – author as personality – the eyes have it – Death of the author part ii
more...Monthly muse the first
Much Ado About Noting – tricks of memory - dead heroines – stream-of-consciousness – spots of time.
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