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Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Embracing of Ambiguous Ambivalence
In looking at poetry of the English Renaissance one is often confronted with an odd picture of love as the one emotion incomparable with the rest for its ability to take a person up to the highest plateau of affection and down into the lowest pits of despondency. This ambivalent attitude toward love is a…
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Comments on Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall”
Gertrude Stein tells us that “the whole business of writing is the question of living in contemporariness.” The problem is that nobody knows exactly what contemporaneity is: “in other words, they don’t know where they are going, but they are on their way” (Stein 488). Describing her lived contemporaneity in her short story, “The Mark…
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