Tag Archives: Jane Austen

Summer Reading For High School

Summer Reading For High School AP/Honors Class For 9th Grade   Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now by Maya Angelou Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Ajeema and His Son by Richard Bradford The Good Earth by Pearl Buck Runs … Continue reading

Rate this:

Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Gothic: 400 Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin

Gothic: 400 Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin Richard Davenport-Hines, 1998 Davenport-Hines begins with the Goths in Eastern Europe in 410AD when the sacked Rome.  In the 1300s, the word Goth came to denote the architecture of that flourished … Continue reading

Rate this:

Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Music, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Gothic

January 26, 2013 “Deep into that darkness peering long, I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams that no mortal ever dared to dream before,” wrote Edgar Allan Poe in his famous poem “The Raven.” I thought that particular quote … Continue reading

Rate this:

Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment