http://phil159.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ eucatastrophe n. eucatastrophic [ < Gr. eu, "good" and catastrophe Coined by JRR Tolkien.] 1. (in a narrative) The event that shifts the balance in favor of the protagonist when all seems lost. 2. A happy ending. en Vox Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:15:25 -0800 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/quite-happy-is-not-the-end-i-want-to-write-for-my-story.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/quite-happy-is-not-the-end-i-want-to-write-for-my-story.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/quite-happy-is-not-the-end-i-want-to-write-for-my-story.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:15:25 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123dde29726860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123dde29726860d-50si" alt="Miss Austen Regrets: The Life and Loves of Jane Austen" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Miss Austen Regrets tries to tell the story of a human being who cannot find a counterpart but nevertheless, feels the need of one. Ironically, it is the story of one of Western Literature’s most formidable Romance novelists, Jane Austen. I... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/quite-happy-is-not-the-end-i-want-to-write-for-my-story.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123f178b31e860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> romance love jane austen literature http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/victoria-no-longer-secret.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/victoria-no-longer-secret.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/victoria-no-longer-secret.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:07:42 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddccddc6860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddccddc6860c-50si" alt="Victoria" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> The past few days have allowed me to watch two documentaries. One is from the Poetry Anthology series on the Victorian poets. The other is the PBS Empires series documentary on the Victorian Era. Like the other documentaries in this series (... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/victoria-no-longer-secret.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddccddce860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> history literature victorian era http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/that-no-man-remember-me.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/that-no-man-remember-me.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/that-no-man-remember-me.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:25:27 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123f16f2b6c860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123f16f2b6c860f-50si" alt="Hardy-mayor-of-casterbridge-bookcover" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> The Mayor of Casterbridge The first chapter of Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge makes for compelling reading. A man arrives at a county fair. He drinks too much. He decides to auction off his wife and daughter to anyone who will pay his... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/that-no-man-remember-me.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f01240b6bbf41860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> literature truth honesty thomas hardy http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/while-im-thinking-of-that-i-dont-feel-pain.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/while-im-thinking-of-that-i-dont-feel-pain.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/while-im-thinking-of-that-i-dont-feel-pain.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:24:44 -0700 The Page Turner I am presently engaged in a discussion with my Ethics class and a Literature class in Jordan about the theme of revenge and retaliation. My colleague in Jordan brought up a great passage in Wuthering Heights. It records a conve... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/while-im-thinking-of-that-i-dont-feel-pain.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123f16edbe8860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> justice revenge ethics retaliation http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/let-her-come-to-me-as-she-will-when-she-will-not-at-all-if-she-will-not.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/let-her-come-to-me-as-she-will-when-she-will-not-at-all-if-she-will-not.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/let-her-come-to-me-as-she-will-when-she-will-not-at-all-if-she-will-not.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:06:25 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddd1c9b6860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddd1c9b6860d-50si" alt="The Forsyte Saga 4-DVD Set [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Netherlands ]" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> “Who would have thought that behind them, within ten miles, London began—that London of the Forsytes, with its wealth, its misery; its dirt and noise; its jumbled stone isles of beauty, its grey sea of hideous brick and stucco? That London which ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/let-her-come-to-me-as-she-will-when-she-will-not-at-all-if-she-will-not.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddc1615a860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> romance love attachment literature possession http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/i-stand-as-a-pelican-in-the-wilderness.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/i-stand-as-a-pelican-in-the-wilderness.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/i-stand-as-a-pelican-in-the-wilderness.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:03:20 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/book/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddd4471c860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddd4471c860d-50si" alt="Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Far from the Maddening Crowd: Thomas Hardy One woman. Three men. The woman, Bathsheba Everdene, Beautiful. One man, Mr. Boldwood: Too old for her and riddled with insecurities but seriously OCD smitten. One man, Frank Troy: A player b... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/i-stand-as-a-pelican-in-the-wilderness.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddaba93d860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> romance love literature thomas hardy http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/it-had-been-forgotten-that-love-is-no-hot-house-flower.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/it-had-been-forgotten-that-love-is-no-hot-house-flower.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/it-had-been-forgotten-that-love-is-no-hot-house-flower.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:23:37 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/book/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddd1c99b860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddd1c99b860d-50si" alt="The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> [I have NO idea why VOX is creating these red fonted underlines! Drives me crazy. I can't get rid of them] I wish I could figure out a way to combine the benefits of watching a movie based on a novel and reading the novel itself. I confess... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/it-had-been-forgotten-that-love-is-no-hot-house-flower.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddbe1787860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> marriage love literature ethics reason passion victorian era http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/he-is-the-moses-of-race-hatred-in-the-united-states.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/he-is-the-moses-of-race-hatred-in-the-united-states.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/he-is-the-moses-of-race-hatred-in-the-united-states.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:12:09 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/book/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddbc6bbe860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddbc6bbe860c-50si" alt="Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> “He is the Moses of race hatred in the United States.” Gedalia Bublick, of Madison Grant Defending the Master Race by Jonathan Spiro is probably the most important work of History that I have or will read this year. Much like David Hackett F... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/he-is-the-moses-of-race-hatred-in-the-united-states.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123dda77bcd860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> history darwin racism ethics eugenics immigration mash social darwinism american social history http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/i-defy-you-to-forget-me-entirely.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/i-defy-you-to-forget-me-entirely.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/i-defy-you-to-forget-me-entirely.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:54:59 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/book/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddcfb4fc860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddcfb4fc860d-50si" alt="Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> “She only said, My life is dreary He cometh not she said She said I am aweary a weary, I wish that I were dead.” Marianna, Tennyson I was talking with my Vermont History class today about 17th Century Vermont History and one of my students w... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/i-defy-you-to-forget-me-entirely.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddbc020b860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> romance letters love attachment literature http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/in-matters-of-grave-importance-style-not-sincerity-is-the-vital-thing.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/in-matters-of-grave-importance-style-not-sincerity-is-the-vital-thing.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/in-matters-of-grave-importance-style-not-sincerity-is-the-vital-thing.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:05:27 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddbb77cc860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddbb77cc860c-50si" alt="The Importance of Being Earnest" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> All I can say is that this is Oscar Wilde well done. There are not many plays that can be read with an understanding that there are layers of meaning embedded in all the dialog while being the sort of play that you can thoroughly enjoy without t... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/in-matters-of-grave-importance-style-not-sincerity-is-the-vital-thing.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123dda6876e860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> literature oscar wilde victorian era virtue