Sublime

For on television, discourse is conducted largely through visual imagery, which is to say that television gives us a conversation in images, not words. The emergence of the image-manager in the political arena and the concomitant decline of the speech writer attest to the fact that television demands a different kind of content from other media. Yo

It is the ability of black people to express the tragic side of social existence but also their refusal to be imprisoned by its limitations.

a realistic critic quoted German authorities to prove that Hamlet had a particular psycho-pathological abnormality, which is admittedly nowhere mentioned in the play. The critic was bewitched; he was thinking of Hamlet as a real man, with a background behind him three dimensions deep–which does not exist in a looking-glass.

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Some writers like John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and William

In the play with which you are all familiar Hamlet had a problem which he defined for himself as follows: What happened to the late King of Denmark, and what should he, Hamlet, do about it? Framing the question accurately—a good program—he took it to a ghost, the most sophisticated mechanism in the late sixteenth century for giving answers to hard

The morality of a great writer is not the morality he teaches, but the morality he takes for granted.

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Another source of restraint for the writer is the use of personal confession and the subsequent guilt that often arises from it.