Here is part of a conversation that Sandy has with her former teacher Jean Brodie some years after the latter has been forced out of her teaching job:       "Teddy Lloyd was greatly in love with me, as you know," said Miss Brodie, "and I with him. It was a great love. One day in the art room he ...

In Finding the Raga, Amit Chaudhuri writes: Meghdut literally means 'cloud-messenger'. In Kalidasa's poem, a lover asks a cloud to carry with it a message from him to his loved one, who lives in the city of Alaka. The long poem describes the lover's imagining of the cloud's journey. The cloud, i...

In Finding the Raga, Amit Chaudhuri writes: If I'm not mistaken, there's a story or an essay by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man emerging from twenty years of alcoholism, noticing the city he lives in as if for the first time, and blinking at the sunlight. I may have made up some of the details i...

In Finding the Raga, Amit Chaudhuri argues that raga music is modernist in that it is non-representational: a raga does not depict anything other than itself. He supports this claim by drawing on the history of aesthetics, Indian as well as Western. Discussing the absence of vibrato in raga perfo...

In Dracula, in order to gain access to Dr. Seward's asylum (and Mina Harker), the Count bribes Renfield, Dr. Seward's "zoophagous" patient, into inviting him into the building (as he can't enter a building without first being invited_: Renfield proceeded:— “He came up to the window in the mist, ...

In ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’ (1855) by Robert Browning, the speaker, the painter Filippo Lippi, says: I’m grown a man no doubt, I’ve broken bounds: You should not take a fellow eight years old And make him swear to never kiss the girls. I’m my own master, paint now as I please— Having a friend, you see,...

The following is from Stephen Dobyns' The Church of Dead Girls: In any text there is both overt and covert material that accesses different cognitive levels within a reader. That is one of those statements highly regarded in teachers' conferences that I avoid. Dobyns, Stephen. The Church of Dead...