Word: dickenses
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In a refinement of the idea, some characters have destroyed themselves precisely by incarnating themselves. Toward the end of his life, Charles Dickens, pressed for money, set off on grueling reading tours in which he became "Dickens," a lecture-hall version of himself. The labor exhausted him and hastened his...
Dickens was the first novelist who really nailed life in the modern city, and Gaffney's Manhattan, with its horse carts and street urchins, is still recognizably Dickensian. But the New York of Thomas Kelly's Empire Rising, set in 1930, is very much a 20th century beast: caffeinated, electrified...
Director Jonathan Nossiter aptly likens his film to the novels of Balzac and Dickens, with its large, colorful cast of characters manipulating society. Like Pip of Great Expectations, Mondovino’s subjects confront issues of class, tradition, and upheaval on the great stage of the “Human...
Many would call me a poor sport for being so quick to take issue with what’s clearly done in the spirit of holiday good cheer; but when I get upset that my Starbucks coffee now comes in a paper cup adorned with colorful Christmas decorations, I do...
But Dylan’s influence has spanned beyond the scope of folk, rock and blues music. In addition to selling over 57 million albums, Dylan is the only musician to ever have been considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This year, Harvard is even offering a freshman seminar...