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Tag Archives: George Bernard Shaw
The Anatomy of Criticism
Anatomy of Criticism Northrop Frye, 1957 It is impossible to learn literature because literature needs to be dis-furnished from the study of it—or criticism. Literary Criticism has many neighbors, including: Psychology and Sociology. Frye covers the Fictional Modes first. Myth, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Mythology
Tagged Autumn, Christianity, Comedy, Dionysus, Drama, Fates, Frued, George Bernard Shaw, Gods, Heroes, Ironic, Irony, Jung, Literature, Lyric, Music, Myth, Northrop Frye, Oracle of Delphi, Oracles, Pagan, Pathetic Fallacy, Poetry, Prose, Psychology, Rhetoric, Rhythm, Satire, Sociology, Spring, Summer, Symbolism, Symbols, The Anatomy of Criticism, The Fabian Society, Thomas Hardy, Tragedy, Winter
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Shaw: A Reassessment
Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment Colin Wilson, 1969 Shaw grew up with a mother who paid little attention to him. She had suffered abuse herself and thought it best to leave him alone. Shaw was naturally shy and introverted. He made … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Politics/Economics, Psychology, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1900s, 1912, A Doll's House, A Reassessment, Abraham Maslow, Affairs, Animal Passivity, Arms and the Man, Back to Methuselah, Bax, Beethoven, Buoyant Billions, Charlotte Payne Townshed, Colin Wilson, Creative Evolution, D.H. Lawrence, Depths of Your Conviction, Domestic Partnership, Evolved, Existentialism, Fabian Society, Faust, GBS, George Bernard Shaw, Ghost Writer, Goethe, Handle, Hero, Human Beings, Ibsen, Imagination, Immense Fields of Knowledge, Intellect, Irrational Knot, Karl Marx, Life-Force, Master, Mother Figure, Neitszche, New Estate, Nihilism, Novels, Plays, Psychology, Pygmalion, Sensitive, Shy, Slave, Socialist, Wagner, What Shall We Do?, World Classic
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Shaw and Religion
Shaw and Religion Ed by Charles A Berst, Penn State 1981 “There is to say Be and It Is,” is a Shavian saying. Shaw is indebted to numerous philosophies. He experienced religion in poetic terms. Development religiously was his perception … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Politics/Economics, Religion
Tagged Arms and the Man, Back to Methuselah, Beethoven, Bergson, Blake, Bunyan, Caesar, Creative Evolution, Dogma, Don Juan in Hell, Evolution, Faith, Father, Faust, GBS, George Bernard Shaw, God, Godhead, Goethe, Gospel, Hegel, Hogarth, Holy Ghost, Ibsen, Lifeforce, Man and Superman, Morality, Morris, Mozart, Nietzsche. Dickens, Philosophy, Play, plot, Religion, Rembrandt, Rules, Schopenhauer, Self Organization, Shakespeare, Shavian, Shaw and Religion, Shaw Studies, Shelly, Social Order, son, Spirituality, St. John, Superman, Tolstoy, Trinity, Turner, Wagner, Will
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Shaw and the Play of Ideas
Shaw And The Play of Ideas By Robert F Whitman, 1977 Shaw’s hostility to Capitalism as the source of most of civilized man’s economic, social and moral ills, is both well known and persuasive throughout his writing….And war in general … Continue reading
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Tagged 1977, Boredom, Burden on Society, Capitalist, Capitalists, Communication, community, Creative Evolution, Don Juan, Drama, Duty, Evil, Evolution, Fabian Soceity, GBS, George Bernard Shaw, God, Government, Heavne, Hell, hope, Hopeless, Humankind, Justice, Life-Force, Logic, Logical Process, Morality, Paradox, Politics, Poor, Public Forum, Reality, Reason, Religion, Rich, Robert F Whitman, Self-Delusion, Self-Indulgence, Shavian, Shaw, Shaw and The Play of Ideas, Sincere, Socialism, Thought, Unvierse
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J.J. Abrams
J.J. Abrams J.J. Abrams first came to my attention back in 2001 with the success of Alias. The Metaphysical Journey of Sydney Bristow caught my imagination, and so it was only natural that I was curious about her creator. About … Continue reading
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Tagged 1966, 1976, 1984, 2001, 6 Degrees, Alias, Almost Human, Bad Robot, Birthday Day, Book, Buoyant Billions, Connection, Damon Lindelof, Debate, Ethan McMillan, Felicity, Forever Young, Fringe, Gene Roddenberry, George Bernard Shaw, George Lucas, Humaity, Huxley, Infinite, Intelligence, Intertexuality, Island, J.J. Abrams, June 27th, Lost, Lost in Hypertext, Love of Literature, Nerd, Pala, Reader Response, Revolution, S., Science Fiction, SJ, Star Trek, Star Wars, Sydney Bristow, Technology, The Force is Strong With This One, The Internet, The Neverending Story, The Ship of Theseus, The Society For The Study of Lost, The X-Files, What About Brian
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Zen and the Art of Shaw
Zen and the Art of Shaw There are several philosophies that run throughout Buoyant Billions, but the two conflicting philosophies of existentialism and creative evolution create a unique tension in the play. Shaw’s attempt to reconcile … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged Anatomy of Criticism, balance, Bill Buoyant, Billions, Buoyant Billions, C.D. Sidhu, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Charles A. Berst, Clemintina, Creative Evolution, Dan H Lawrence, Darkie, Duality, Eric Bently, Existence and Being, Existentialism, Far Fetched Fables, George Bernard Shaw, God-Within, Hoochlipoochli, Jack Kornfield, Junius, Life-Force, Martin Heidegger, Michael Holroyd, Northrop Frye, Patterns of Tragicomedy in Bernard Shaw, Robert F Whitman, Secondborn, Shakes Vs Shav, Shaw and Religion, Steven Joyce, The Play of Ideas, The Shavian, Transformations and Texts, World Betterer, Zen and the Art of Shaw
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Timequake
April 1, 2008 Timequake “A quake in time/Makes you go back past nine/one becomes unstuck/Free to repeat each fuck-up!” A limerick of sorts dedicated to Kurt Vonnegut. I picked up Slaughter-House 5 due to the reference on Lost. While I … Continue reading
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Tagged A Street Car Named Desire, A.E. Housman, Albert Camus, Benjimin Something, Bertrand Russell, Breakfast of Champions, Candide, Cari Lynn, Carl Sagan, Catch-22, Catcher in the Rye, Charles Schulz., Death and Masterbation, Dick Francis, Dostoysky, Draino, EM Forrester, Gene Rodenberry, George Bernard Shaw, Herman Mellville, Human Secularism, Hume, Intertextuality, Isaac Asimov, JD Salinger, John Lennon, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Heller, Julius Caesar, Kubla Khan, Kurt Vonnegut, Locke, Lost, Moby Dick, Nietzsche, Our Town, Paine, Paul Dennis, Phillip Pullman, Pulp Fiction, Radiant Darkness, Red Badge of Courage, Rousseau, Stephen Crane, Stephen King, Suicide, T.S. Elliot, The Brothers Karasmov, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Old Man and The Sea, Thorton Wilder, Timequake, William Blake, William Styron
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