We’ve been doing readings at each of our weekly meetings of The Monarch Writers of short fiction by established authors, to try to point out sections where the writer achieves … Continue reading “For Esmé—with Love and Squalor” – This Week’s Short Story Reading for the Group
THE MONARCH WRITERS – JUNE 2019 – MIMESIS (RE-PRESENTING REALITY) “Are we kidding around out here? Or do we mean what we say!?” – Charlie “Nuwanda” Dalton, ‘Dead Poets … Continue reading MIMESIS (RE-PRESENTING REALITY)
In May 2019 The Monarch Writers were studying the German Author and Poet JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE And the literary movement he was a part of STURM UND DRANG (STORM … Continue reading GOETHE – STURM UND DRANG – FAUST – AND YOUNG WERTHER
See these events on Meetup.com 2nd Monday 5/13/2019 Discussion and Prompt Night 4th Monday 5/27/2019 Share and Critique Night In May We are studying the German Author JOHANN WOLFGANG VON … Continue reading May 2019 – GOETHE – Writing A Letter To Myself – Sturm Und Drang
See This Event on Meetup.com Check out the study guide for this meeting here. Saint Sebastian was an early Christian Saint and martyr. During Roman emperor Diocletian’s persecution of Christians, … Continue reading April 2019 – The Schopenhauer Cure – Pessimism, Raising Consciousness, & Committing to Our Projects
CONTINUING OUR DISCUSSION OF ⚫ SYMBOLISM ⚫ FIGHT SCENES ⚫ SYNESTHESIA ⚫ WITH AN EVENING OF SHARING WORK, FRIENDLY & CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE, FOLLOWED BY A PROMPT FOR DISCUSSION ABOUT … Continue reading MARCH 2019 – THE FIGHT OF THE SENSES – SYMBOLISM, METAPHOR, AND SYNESTHESIA
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” – T.S. Eliot LITERARY THEORY . . . Some Excerpted from ‘The Symbolist Movement: A Critical Appraisal’ by Anna Balakian, Some … Continue reading MARCH 2019 – THAT GOOD OL’ DECADENCE, SEX & VIOLENCE, AND ART FOR ART’S SAKE
March: Symbolist and Aestheticism movements: Ch. 19 in our Literary Criticism Text https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bskzgZp-tXVwAbUnQT_8ClqnVKOs0TCy/view?usp=sharing Focusing on authors Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Walter Pater (1839 – 1894), and Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900), running … Continue reading MARCH 2019 – SYMBOLISM AND AESTHETICISM LITERARY MOVEMENTS
This month I want to talk about Techniques for getting at TRUTH. Which the Realist and Naturalist Movements were both working on. They were trying to write in a way … Continue reading FEBRUARY 2019 – TECHNIQUES FOR ACHIEVING TRUTH: Realism and Naturalism
“There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.” — Gilles Deleuze “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” ― Lewis Carroll … Continue reading JANUARY 2019 – NEW WEAPONS FOR THE WAR: IMAGINATION
