Tag Archives: literary criticism

Amy M. Clarke’s Ursula K. Le Guin’s Journey to Post-Feminism

Posted on 3rd March 2024 by Diverse Voices

Joseph Thompson wrote this review. Learning about an artist is risky business. Near the end of my college career, I lost all respect for a musician I greatly admired after taking a senior seminar about that musician. The course confirmed … Continue reading →

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Giorgia Grilli’s Myth, Symbol and Meaning in Mary Poppins: the Governess as Provacteur; and Valerie Lawson’s Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers

Posted on 25th July 2023 by Diverse Voices

Faced with two books on a similar theme, where one is a critical analysis and the other a biography, I am generally inclined to the critical analysis. As an academic historian, I regard biography with a certain amount of suspicion. … Continue reading →

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Simone Caroti’s The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction

Posted on 16th April 2018 by Gary Whitehouse

I don’t know about you, but I love reading things written by other people about things I like. Well, actually, I do know about you. You wouldn’t be reading The Green Man Review if you also didn’t like to read … Continue reading →

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Farah Mendlesoh’s Rhetorics of Fantasy

Posted on 25th December 2016 by Diverse Voices

Lory Hess penned this review. Farah Mendlesohn takes fantasy seriously. Other scholars may tend to skip over the genre, or feel the need to explain or excuse their focus on popular fiction, but she takes for granted the worthiness of … Continue reading →

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Angela Carter’s  Nights at the Circus

Posted on 2nd May 2016 by Diverse Voices

Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter’s second to last novel, is a fanciful tale of a winged English woman, an American journalist and the exceedingly bizarre circus that draws them together. Sophie Fevvers, the “Cockney Venus,” is a famous aerialiste, or … Continue reading →

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Anne K. Kaler, editor’s Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael

Posted on 12th June 2003 by Leona Wisoker

Anyone who has had to battle their way through an English term paper probably remembers with dread the research books that they had to wade through, scraping a quote here and an inference there, then helplessly staring at how much … Continue reading →

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Alison Lurie’s Don’t Tell the Grown-Ups

Posted on 30th June 1999 by Diverse Voices

Diane McDonough wrote this review. If you ever wondered at the appeal of Kate Greenaway’s winsome lasses with their wispy Empire gowns, if you’ve ever contemplated the universal charm of Winnie the Pooh, if you’ve ever tucked The Secret Garden … Continue reading →

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