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Not just a great artistic progress but a great moral one -
Writing as a quest for learning the truth about oneself -
Women’s suffering, bearing witness, society, feminist insight -
Sadness, desire vs. identities, discourses to voice feelings -
Refusing to indulge the reader, the novel assaults her/him -
Narrative voice, ironic vision; fear, dream, desire -
How double structure splits identity to complete it -
The artist as a free woman, the air as a vital force -
A woman’s desire: at once prison-house and place of freedom -
Catherine’s quest to enact quenchless Desire and Will at once -
Romance of Voss & Laura, suffering, pride, place, music-form -
Male Fiction: The Novelist, His Wife, and His Fantasized Lover -
The creative use of constraint. Jane Austen, E.M. Forster... -
Every exploring, rigorous novelist is an exile of sorts. -
Drafting a story, telling the story, the beginning… -
A transcendent synthesis of pornography and myth -
Prophet of a religion of sex, pleasure, and nature. -
Each writer must sing his own song | Sex in fiction -
Recontextualizing pornography, appropriating it for high art -
Recontextualizing pornography, appropriating it for high art -
Recontextualizing pornography, appropriating it for high art -
Recontextualizing pornography, appropriating it for high art -
Bataille’s women: dialectical image, masquerade, performance -
The didactic mode of the author’s discourse. Writing with pen(is). -
Could a writer like Henry Miller make his voice heard today? -
All my books are questions for me. I write because I don’t know. -
Literature & pornography, sexual phantasy & textual work -
Sex sells: Analysis of 'Spy' book covers as a marketing tool -
The art of fiction: A writer has to be his own judge. Style. -
The art of fiction: character, structure, the sense of life lived. -
An in-depth analysis of Manet’s painting (2) -
An in-depth analysis of Manet’s painting (1) -
Schoenberg & Ludwig Pfau, Richard Dehmel, and Stefan George -
How Mahler calls a presence out of absence -
Music’s floating intentionality, consolation’s historical context -
How the interaction of music & libretto creates ironic distance -
A scene-by-scene presentation of the synopsis -
A scene-by-scene presentation of the synopsis -
A feminist affirmation of Earth-Spirit and Pandora’s Box -
A scene-by-scene presentation of the synopsis -
Dramatic style: burlesque, grotesque, tragedy -
L.A. Woman, ‘Heroes’, Sweet Dreams Are Made of This, Quiet Life… -
Ever Fallen in Love, Boys Don’t Cry, Just Like Heaven, Roxanne… -
Eurythmics, T. Rex, Bryan Ferry, Guesch Patti, Annette Peacock -
Alfred Brendel on motivic connections & aspects of performance -
Analysis of ‘Träumerei’ & of the cohesion of the complete cycle -
Fairytale motifs | Gothic reading | Internal tribunal (2) -
Fairytale motifs | Gothic reading | Internal tribunal (1) -
Fairytale motifs – Gothic readings – Castle in the air -
Fairytale motifs, Gothic reading, Expulsion from Eden (2) -
Fairytale motifs, Gothic reading, Expulsion from Eden (1) -
Modernism, romance, autobiography, dream, gothic, fairytale (2) -
Modernism, romance, autobiography, dream, gothic, fairytale (1) -
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The five phases in a Kafka character’s life cycle (Part 2) -
The five phases in a Kafka character’s life cycle (Part 1) -
Julia, Mother, My Mummy’s Dead | Elegie | Chelsea Hotel #2 -
La lugubre gondola, Cantus, Elegies 1 & 2 (Liszt | Bartók) -
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Crepuscule with Nellie, Blood Count -
What makes for excellence in the elegy? -
Tess: Beyond realism: Hardy’s novel & Polanski’s film -
Narrative strategy & the defiance of death -
Lover & beloved in Geoffrey Hill’s poetic sequence -
Refined menace & ominous sound -
What makes a great guitar solo? How about 'having something to say'? -
Effects of Stopes' and Greer's personal lives on their writing -
From physical jouissance to metaphysical experience. -
‘The Glitter of a High-Class Brothel’ -
Analysis & interpretation of Humanworld – Part 2 -
Analysis & interpretation of Humanworld – Part 1 -
Analysis & interpretation of songs – Part 2 -
Analysis & interpretation of songs – Part 1 -
Values of painting contrasted with contemporary art values -
A critical comparison (3/3) of the Figgis & Ullmann film versions -
A critical comparison (2/3) of the Figgis & Ullmann film versions -
A critical comparison (1/3) of the Figgis & Ullmann film versions -
Sympathy for the Devil: Sexual Fantasy, Sexuality & Aggression -
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Norwegian National Ballet: Hedda Gabler – Analysis 2 -
Norwegian National Ballet: Hedda Gabler – Analysis 1 -
Hedda Gabler: Tragedy vs Melodrama, 1963-1975 -
Hedda Gabler: Postmodernism vs Naturalism, 1980-2016 -
Hedda Gabler & femininity: A psychosexual analysis -
A fresh interpretation of the portrait & appreciation of the artist -
Boulez on Staël, music & painting | Webern music & analysis -
A fresh interpretation of the portrait & appreciation of the artist -
Read the first chapter of Mara, Marietta: A Love Story in 77 Bedrooms -
Christian Lacroix writes about how he designs haute couture, his creative process, his influences... -
Christian Lacroix writes about how he designs haute couture, his creative process, his influences... -
Christian Lacroix writes about how he designs haute couture, his creative process, his influences... -
A thematic analysis: hyperconsumerism, the witch, nostalgia -
Thematic analysis: Plato’s Atlantis, Girl Who Lived in the Tree, Voss -
Accidental rock star, he walked backwards into the music business. -
Psychoanalytic analysis: hyper-sexuality | Radical lucidity & relentless courage -
An empathetic understanding of Francesca’s life and suicide. -
We hate where we once loved; we can't control the other’s desire. -
Decisiveness & resignation | The uncanny presence of absence -
Devouring passion, desperate desire | Identity equilibrium, disruptive love -
‘Creep’: Untouchable angel and incubus | ‘Milk’: Ravishment physical and metaphysical -
Obsession, delusion, self-pity | Courage, responsibility, dignity -
Love, dependence, friendship & sex; isolation & impasse, routine & resentment -
‘Wild Horses’: lyric poetry of courtly love. 'Pissing in a River': an elemental plea. -
Leonard Cohen in Europe and America: an analysis of the differential reception -
The Only Ones: Artistic brilliance & commercial obscurity. Why? -
Why, given the greatness of her art, are Marianne’s audiences small? -
Tommaso Fattovich paints from the solar plexus; his work is carnal. -
The Play of the Double in Postmodern Fiction & in ‘Mara, Marietta’ -
Psychoanalyst Geneviève Morel on feminine festishism. -
'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me' refracted through images and fiction. Part 2. -
'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me' refracted through images and fiction. Part 1. -
The Symbolist aesthetic of the Cure; Robert Smith & Stéphane Mallarmé -
Homage to Anne Dufourmantelle | Excerpt from 'Blind Date: Sex and Philosophy' -
Fiona Apple via Garbage, Bob Dylan, Liz Phair, Leonard Cohen & Tanita Tikaram -
Fiona Apple via David Bowie, Magazine, Joy Division, Pete Townshend, The Cure -
The privilege of power: anything(one) can be instrumentalized – Vanessa Redgrave, ‘The Devils’ Part... -
The return of the repressed: Dark games, ritual struggles – Vanessa Redgrave, ‘The Devils’... -
Good bedfellows: Sex and religion – Vanessa Redgrave, ‘The Devils’ Part 1 -
Peter Maxwell Davies’ score for 'The Devils' is one of the finest in all... -
Film Acting as Shakespearean Celebration: Vanessa Redgrave in ‘Coriolanus’ -
‘The Ghost of the Weed Garden’: Julie, a Chronic Schizophrenic (III) -
‘The Ghost of the Weed Garden’: Julie, a Chronic Schizophrenic (II) -
‘The Ghost of the Weed Garden’: Julie, a Chronic Schizophrenic (I) -
Dying to live: Saying 'No' to affirm one’s individuality. -
Every woman articulates the feminine in the way she dresses (and undresses) her body.... -
Isabelle Adjani's performance in Possession is a landmark of world cinema, and one can... -
In Adolphe, Isabelle Adjani's entire body-voice is concentrated in her face... -
Erotomania, like hysteria and anorexia, are ‘attempts at self-cure’ most commonly found among women.... -
Her method as an actress is to break down and regenerate herself; in doing... -
Tristana is one of Catherine Deneuve’s favourite roles. She has often said how appealing... -
Deneuve employs her body in the service of the mystery of Séverine’s desire... -
When it comes to sex, all of us have experienced longing and frustration, but... -
The actor’s art as demonic and erotic: this vision will inform my reflections on... -
In playing Grace, Kidman’s challenge was to maintain a constructive tension between naturalness and... -
As a film about a couple in crisis, the specific genius of Eyes Wide... -
As a character, Isabel Archer challenges the actress to plumb her depths even as... -
Nicole Kidman, because of her vast range and versatility and the radiance of her... -
Jorge Luis Borges’ poetic genius remains, in my view, insufficiently recognized… -
Sparkling with intelligence, stylish and emotionally articulate, 'Mara, Marietta' elevates the love story to... -
Attentiveness, vigilance, the holiness of the spirit; lucidity, courage, the responsibility of risk: All... -
She's got a voice of unmistakable timbre, and however acrobatic, it’s mission is always... -
From her heart, from her locus of spirituality, Cassandra Wilson brings forth a voice... -
Richard Butler’s voice is the closest I know to that of a tenor sax,... -
Beyond the way Helen Merrill sings behind the beat (with a lag as it... -
My voice has developed, becoming more voluminous and gaining more colours... -
Marianne Faithfull found her voice when she returned from the dead. A voice that... -
Trusting only in his artistry, faithful to no Muse but his own, in each... -
Each time I listen to the quintet’s albums, I am struck by their freshness,...