Word: bourgeoises
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B>UT HOWEVER "pure" criticism can become, it still has political consequences. And the same holds true for literature in general. If critics won't invoke certain works as representing their society--as say, British critics might have done with Kipling and Tennyson to support British imperialism at the turn...
Bell is no mere nostalgia peddler sighing for antique worlds. With acerbic but civil scholarship, he blames today's honorless condition on what he calls "modernism": the cultural movement that started in the latter half of the 19th century and has gathered momentum ever since. Modernism rejects the old...
Bourgeois
The bourgeois couple of this film is played by Glenda Jackson and Michael Caine. Their performances are good, given the built-in limitations of the roles--this is not an actor's film. The plot is not the strongest point either: Jackson, bored with her perfect husband, adorable son, and...
The screenplay by Thomas Wiseman from his novel of the same name, with the collaboration of playwright Tom Stoppard, is not as subtly revealing of character as the direction and editing. In fact much of it is irritatingly banal--the few funny moments, presumably contributed by Stoppard, seem like the...