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Month: Oct 2018

Essays

Fashioning Death: Anne Boleyn, James French, and the Last Dying Speech

Oct 30, 2018Nov 20, 2018 James Alsop

From Anne Boleyn to a 20th Century murderer from Oklahoma, it seems that last dying speeches are all the fashion...

Tagged anne boleyn, edmund spenser, faerie queene, gallows humour, james french, last dying speeches, scaffold, self-fashioning, stephen greenblatt1 Comment
Education, Essays

“I never got that letter”: writing “Curley’s wife”

Oct 25, 2018Oct 30, 2018 James Alsop

That lower-case "w" in "Curley's wife" stands for some terrible, terrible things. It would be nice to capitalise it, to give it the appearance of a name, to treat it as a title rather than as an insult. But we can't...

Tagged curley's wife, Education, GCSE, John Steinbeck, novel, of mice and men, teachingLeave a comment

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