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Props to Ultan's Library, also Death and the Maiden
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Ultan's Apprentice writes:
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I'd like to announce that Ultan's Library, the webpage
containing articles and reviews of GW's work has been
updated (finally!). It should be easier on the eyes
now, but we also have a new article by Jeremy
Crampton. Please take a look.
URL:
http://www.english.bham.ac.uk/ultan
Great stuff, as always. I haven't fully absorbed Jeremy Crampton's article yet, but it seems fascinating, complete with completely non-gratuitous quotes from Foucault ;-)
Jeremy's topic reminds me that I saw an interesting film recently with vaguely Wolfean overtones: Death and the Maiden, based on a play by the very odd Ariel Dorfman. It features a healer who may also be a torturer with much discussion of the ways that one can become the other, several unreliable witnesses and an unsatisfying, ambiguous ending. Sigourney Weaver is quite good as a woman in an unnamed South American country who was tortured as a political prisoner (for "confessional" reasons, though our tortuer, who takes pleasure in his work, seems to have something of Gurloes in him too). It's rather melodramatic and much of it is prickly and uncomfortable, but I found it quite compelling nonetheless even with its faults. Your mileage may vary.
Shellac