Happy Werewolf Wednesday, everyone! This week I’m going to talk about a book that significantly influenced by decision to write a werewolf series of my very own: “She-Wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves”.
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Saturday in the Stacks
Saturday is the perfect time to wander through the stacks (that’s librarian-speak for “bookshelves”) and talk about books and the people who write them. Pull up a comfy chair and settle in, because today I want to do a deep dive into a quote from one of my all-time favorite books, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.”
Werewolf Wednesday
Happy Werewolf Wednesday, everyone! This week I’m going to talk about one of the werewolf characters that significantly influenced me as I constructed my own world of wolfy wonder: Oz from the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The Tragic Hero: Oedipus the King
In Sophocles‘ play Oedipus the King, the title character fits all aspects of Aristotle‘s formula for the characteristics of a tragic hero. Oedipus fits the six qualities laid out by Aristotle perfectly, as if they had been molded for him. This is as it should be, given that Aristotle based many of his arguments asContinue reading “The Tragic Hero: Oedipus the King”
The Children of Moll Flanders: Infanticide Run Rampant
When reading through Defoe’s Moll Flanders, one thing that struck me as a reader was the complete disregard Moll had for all of the children to which she gave birth over the course of the novel. While Moll takes pains at every turn to account for her stock of money and goods, she doesn’t botherContinue reading “The Children of Moll Flanders: Infanticide Run Rampant”