More Loose Ends Than A Grass Skirt

12th April 2007 with 2 Comments

Germaine Greer on who wrote Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus?
Literature courses in the US are oddly skewed towards novels because few undergraduates are required to read any poetry. If Lauritsen had read a sufficient quantity of poetry, he would know better than to state that the monster’s famous statement that he will “glut the maw [...]

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