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Juliet

Is Sight Sovereign of the Senses?

`Sight is the sovereign of the senses.` Is it? In his Ways of Seeing, John Berger states that `the faculty of touch is like a static, limited form of sight` as if it were a given....
Juliet

Is Life Worth Living?

Is life worth living? In a genre that is fundamentally based on human suffering, misery and despair, this query is one that often hangs in the tragic air, implicitly if not explicitly...
Juliet

Decadence in English (and French) Literature - Part 3

However, when artificiality is forced upon an individual, the reality of multiple personae is far less glamorous. In a letter written to Philip Houghton in February 1894 Wilde admi...
Juliet

Decadence in English (and French) Literature - Part 2

Indeed, the dress and personality of Wilde support Baudelaire`s statement: Wilde`s immaculate, lavish apparel reflects his refined aesthetic tastes and his highly fastidious discrimin...
Juliet

Decadence in English (and French) Literature - Part 1

Decadence in English (and French) Literature. One evening she is Rosalind, and the next evening she is Imogen. I have seen her die in the gloom of an Italian tomb, sucking the poi...
Jerome

`Dulce et Decorum Est` - Literary Analaysis

During the course of Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen, the Horatian image of a glorified and idealized war is stripped away to reveal the bitter and vicious nature of a new era i...
Francesca

My recent work at Oxford : Why study Literature

Frankie Nicholls When I think of the world without language all I can envisage is a desolate, dreary world; a world that has frozen in space and time, drifting silently in a sphere...
Dorothy

Interpreting Reading and Spelling Tests

If you have raw scores from a recent reading or spelling test, you can establish a suitable series of structured workbooks that will help a particular student to "catch up". If you...
Dorothy

Early identification of Dyslexia

A number of UK working parties have reported on the importance of training nursery and reception year teachers in the red flags for dyslexia. When this is universally practised, dysl...
Sacha

Paragraphing- It`s as easy as PEAI

One of the hardest things about writing essays can be figuring out exactly which piece of information goes where, but over the years the PEAI has served me well as a guideline. P- ...
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