dream

I dreamed sometimes between last night and this morning that papersky had hacked CNN and was broadcasting poetry around the globe.

DLS: The Nine Tailors 3

Previous DLS posts: Concerning Lord Peter Wimsey, and Ralph Lynn, the Hon. Freddy Arbuthnot, Miss Katharine Alexandra Climpson, media whimsies, music, aspidistra & ampelopsis, Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, Unnatural Death, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club 1 & 2, Strong Poison, The Five Red Herrings, Have His Carcase 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7, Murder Must Advertise, The Nine Tailors 1 & 2.

At long last, the third Nine Tailors post, in which we will discuss religion, realism, and anything else that happens to cross my mind. Discussion inspired from the replies to this post, with much gratitude!

Spoilers abounding.

( 'That's torn it!' said Lord Peter Wimsey. )

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WORKS CITED
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Nine Tailors. 1934. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., n.d.

women writers, characters, and strategies of interpretation

Peter Rabinowitz has some really useful and interesting things to say about this problem that papersky and I keep coming back to, like dogs to a over-gnawed bone, viz., why women's traditional activities are seen as unsuitable material for novels.

( This is going to be long, and full of quotes. )

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WORKS CITED
Rabinowitz, Peter J. Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.