Oh you can say there’s nothing to be gained by seeing The Wizard of Oz on the big screen of…
Twelve Jokes from (if not by) Sigmund Freud
In 1905, Sigmund Freud published his book-length study, Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious. Here are some of the…
Top Ten Literary Theory Tips, for Anyone
This weekend Chicago will host the annual convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA). This year’s gathering will attract more…
My Excellent Twitter Reviews for #TLSAPP
Presented here in all their glory, and in order from first to last, are my losing entries for the TLS…
Composition Time
Romantic poets “admired the poetry of previous generations, very rightly, for the taste it left in the head, and, failing…
Analysis and “Ruining the Fun”
“Secondly, and more seriously, it has been deduced from this belief that you are liable to destroy the poem if…