Sitemap - 2024 - Personal Canon Formation
Gulliver's Perspectival Challenges
Rejecting Malignant Narcissism
Literature is Inevitably Political
Human Pets and "Odious Little Vermin"
The Trauma of Absurdity in Brobdingnag
Three Superb Albums by Amazing Women for your Weekend
Gulliver's Eighteenth-Century iPhone
For the Love of a Misanthropist
Naïveté, Insanity, and the Temptations of Misanthropy
The Internal Plot, not the Marriage Plot
My Favorite Albums of 2024 So Far
A Fight, A Dance, A Naked Knightley, and a Nosebleed
Not Back to the Future, but Forward to the Past
*Emma* and the English Literature Survey
Emma’s Arguments: This Won’t End Well
Do Austen and Wordsworth Speak to Each Other? A PCF Anniversary Post
Schubert, Substack, and Serendipity
Emma, Love, Desire, Ambivalence
"Emma could not forgive her": The Reserve and Precarity of Jane Fairfax
Two Awkward Carriage Rides Elevate the Novel Form to New Heights
Young Schubert, with corrected links
Miss Smith Goes to Hartfield (with apologies to Jimmy Stewart)
Loving Emma, Despite Her Flaws (and partly because of them)
Schubert and Me: A Fateful Afternoon in Chapel Hill
One Damn Song to Make Me Break Down and Cry: David Bowie’s *Young Americans*
A Rain Check on Pain: David Bowie’s *Young Americans*
David Bowie, from *Space Oddity* to *Blackstar*
There and Back Again, for a While—Tolkien and Mortality
Tolkien’s Vision of Ecological Catastrophe and Restoration
Tolkienian Fate and Free Will: Mount Doom
“The Eagles are Coming!”: Despair and Hope in *The Return of the King*
Vaughan Williams Gets Angry, and We Get New Prince Tracks
Heroic Language in *The Lord of the Rings*, or Tolkienian Style, part 2
Tolkien's Homosocial Fellowship
Orc-Talk: Tolkien and Ordinary Evil
Gollum and the Fragmented Self
Tolkien and the Myth of Decline
*LOTR* Reading Challenge Check-in
The Palantír and the Panopticon
Tolkien and Race: Yes, We Have to Talk about Orcs
Tolkien's Ents: Ecology Meets Philology
Tolkienian Deep Time II: The Mountain, the Abyss, and the Hythe
Tolkienian Deep Time: Elves and Lothlórien
Vaughan Williams Listening Challenge 2: A Pastoral Symphony and a Stricken Peninsula
Could "The Council of Elrond" Have Been an Email?
*Lord of the Rings* Challenge Reading Schedule
Tolkienian Ecology as Living Text
Vaughan Williams Listening Challenge: A Fantasia and a Phantasy
Some Tolkienian Sources and the Stack of the Week
*The Lord of the Rings* Reading Challenge
Deep Cuts of Purple: More Prince, and the Stack of the Week
Listening Challenge: Beethoven’s “Eroica”
What Can the Icelandic Sagas Teach Us about Prince?
Musical Rabbit Holes for Your Exploration
What Can Prince Teach Us about the Icelandic Sagas?
The Dragon, the Treasure, and Radical Empathy
Music, Ecology, and the Stack of the Week
Musical Treasures and Treasury Treasures
J.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, and Bruno Walter Walk into a Bar
Wandering in the Waste Borderland
Bird-Bolts and Cannon-Bullets, No. 24
Bird-Bolts and Cannon-Bullets XXIII