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Persuasion (1818) by Jane Austen

Stephanie Whetstone2014-10-01T12:00:15-04:00

Critical Assessment "There is a peculiar beauty and a peculiar dullness in Persuasion. The dullness is that which so often marks the transition stage between two different periods. The writer is a little bored. She has grown too familiar with the ways of her world; she no longer notes them freshly. . . . But, while we feel that Jane Austen has done this before, and done it better, we also feel that she is trying to do something which she has never yet attempted. There is a new element in Persuasion, the quality, perhaps, that made Dr. Whewell fire up [...]

Persuasion (1818) by Jane AustenStephanie Whetstone2014-10-01T12:00:15-04:00

pillory (PĬL-ə-rē)

Stephanie Whetstone2014-09-29T12:00:38-04:00

Definition (Verb) To abuse, ridicule, or defame (a person or thing); to expose to public abuse or ridicule; to reproach. In Context "We live in a culture primed to pillory helicopter parents for hovering and smothering, working parents for outsourcing and neglecting, and parents of every stripe for failing to put down their phones." Heidi Stevens, "Parents Allow Less Freedom for Kids," Telegraph Herald, August 18, 2014.

pillory (PĬL-ə-rē)Stephanie Whetstone2014-09-29T12:00:38-04:00

coruscate (KÔR-ə-skāt)

Stephanie Whetstone2014-09-22T12:00:19-04:00

Definition (Verb) To give forth intermittent or vibratory flashes of light; to shine with a quivering light; to sparkle, glitter, flash. In Context "The glowing stars grow fainter, dimmer, ceasing to coruscate like celestial jewels studding the soft, dark canopy of the sky." Frank T. Bullen, Idylls of the Sea and Other Marine Sketches, 1899.

coruscate (KÔR-ə-skāt)Stephanie Whetstone2014-09-22T12:00:19-04:00

equinox (Ē-kwə-nŏks)

Stephanie Whetstone2014-09-15T12:00:02-04:00

Definition (Noun) One of the two periods in the year when the days and nights are equal in length all over the earth, owing to the sun's crossing the equator. Hence, the precise moment at which the sun crosses the equator. In Context "Easter is defined as the first Sunday after the first full moon that appears on or after the spring equinox, March 20." Jack Ewing, Monkeys Are Made of Chocolate: Exotic and Unseen Costa Rica, 2005.

equinox (Ē-kwə-nŏks)Stephanie Whetstone2014-09-15T12:00:02-04:00

evanescent (ĕv-ə-NĔS-ənt)

Stephanie Whetstone2014-09-08T12:00:39-04:00

Definition (Adjective) That quickly vanishes or passes away; having no permanence. Said of appearances, conditions, impressions, etc. In Context "The love I'm talking about is a simple emotion as evanescent as any other: you have the feeling towards someone for a moment, and the next moment, you're on to something else." David Hlavsa, An Actor Rehearses: What to Do When – and Why, 2006.

evanescent (ĕv-ə-NĔS-ənt)Stephanie Whetstone2014-09-08T12:00:39-04:00

Writing with Others in Mind

Stephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:26:28-05:00

Writing with Others in Mind We typically write in solitude, immersed in our own thoughts and surrounded by our own things. Interruptions – intrusive conversations, incoming emails, needy colleagues – are generally unwelcome in these moments, unless, of course, we are not really in a mood to write. But when we single-mindedly focus on the sheet or screen before us, it is difficult not to be self-centered; not to view the world through the lens of our own needs and expectations. Yet, the more we withdraw into ourselves, the less likely we are to take our readers' unique identities into account. Their [...]

Writing with Others in MindStephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:26:28-05:00

cynosure (SĪ-nə-shōōr)

Stephanie Whetstone2014-09-01T12:00:44-04:00

Definition (Noun) Something that attracts attention by its brilliancy or beauty; a centre of attraction, interest, or admiration. In Context "And as the empire expanded again in the aftermath of Yorktown, the position of the sovereign as its political flywheel, social apex and ceremonial cynosure was further enhanced." David Cannadine, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire, 2001.

cynosure (SĪ-nə-shōōr)Stephanie Whetstone2014-09-01T12:00:44-04:00

The Sea (2005) by John Banville

Stephanie Whetstone2014-09-01T12:00:19-04:00

Critical Assessment "If one can invoke the idea of fierce lyricism without it sounding either coy or oxymoronic, surely that is the term to signal the chill and beauty of the Irish writer John Banville's novels. . . . "'The Sea,' then, which last month received England's coveted Man Booker Prize, is a piece of violent poetry – an autumnal, elegiac novel whose desolate story is carried along by the sweet and stormy tides of its exquisite, sometimes too exquisite, prose. . . . "The bulk of 'The Sea' is an exploration of how a man so brilliantly cultivated and articulate [...]

The Sea (2005) by John BanvilleStephanie Whetstone2014-09-01T12:00:19-04:00

balustrade (BĂL-ə-strād)

Stephanie Whetstone2014-08-04T12:00:02-04:00

Definition (Noun) A row of balusters, surmounted by a rail or coping, forming an ornamental parapet or barrier along the edge of a terrace, balcony, etc. In Context "On the second floor rose three very high, curved windows, originally, he suspected, an open loggia but now glazed and fronted with a low stone balustrade." P. D. James, A Taste for Death, 1986.

balustrade (BĂL-ə-strād)Stephanie Whetstone2014-08-04T12:00:02-04:00

The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) by Booth Tarkington, Class of 1893

Stephanie Whetstone2014-08-01T12:00:25-04:00

Critical Assessment "The total effect of 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is, as a Tarkington novel, extraordinary. One begins it with lively entertainment. Along toward the middle something appears to be the matter. The abounding verve which we have come to expect from Mr. Tarkington does not seem to be present in this patient, earnest progress in the accumulation of detail in elucidating the growth of character. . . . And altogether one is not so comfortable as one expected to be. Then comes a third stage, when it comes over one that his queer feeling arises from the fact that this book [...]

The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) by Booth Tarkington, Class of 1893Stephanie Whetstone2014-08-01T12:00:25-04:00

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