Entries Tagged as ‘Brit Lit’

October 22, 2007

Fairy Tales and Fear

As adults we sometimes forget that fairy tales, though more fantastic than real, have a rise and a fall, a climax and a resolution, and elements of tangible fear. It’s in the climax where the protagonist faces some type of adversity and the frivolity of the circumstances surrounding our hero/heroine fades into something darker.
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October 17, 2007

My Kubla Kahn

It almost feels like another lifetime ago, but once upon a time I was an English major and I studied massive compilation text books of British lit. Unfortunately most of my knowledge from this period in my life has since evaporated, but I still continue to be enthralled by the works of Wordsworth and Coleridge. [...]