Tag Archives: Relationships

Poems that Celebrate Long Marriages

Two poems to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary, by Kunitz and Fanthorpe.

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“Othello’s” Toxic Relationships

“Othello” continues to raise urgent questions that we’ve got to grapple with.

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Read “12th Night” for Relationship Advice

In their essays on “Twelfth Night,” my students showed they are hungry for authentic relationships.

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Eternally Damned after Reading a Book

In which I compare Austen’s Marianne and Willoughby to Dante’s Paulo and Francesca.

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Austen-Like Dating During Covid

Covid is disrupting our dating lives but may as a result have an up-side. Kundera, John Fowles, and Jane Austen explain.

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We Are Waiting Rooms at Bus Stations

As poet Marge Piercy sees it, we are bus station waiting rooms through which people pass, each leaving an imprint.

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Female Intimacy in Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf may have used “To the Lighthouse” to explore the possibilities of human intimacy.

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Reading Aloud, Shared Intimacy

If you want to become close to someone, read literature aloud. Doing so circumvents defenses and helps you make connections that are otherwise difficult to access.

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Diana Wynne Jones’s Feminist Fantasy

Diana Wynne Jones’s “Fire and Hemlock” draws on the Tam Lin story to give women a model for heroism that counters the role assigned to them in traditional fairy tales.

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