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Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post “There are Doors” in the group
On Wolfe: on MLA Commons 1 week agoSome morning thoughts. Spoilers.
It’s about a guy who lost a mother who may… as diagnosed by Laura, have been his best friend, but may also have simultaneously been a predator, someone who kept him all to […]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Gene Wolfe, a novelist who explores the true self vs. the false self psychic formation in the group
On Wolfe: on MLA Commons 1 week, 4 days agoOne of the things I’m increasingly noticing about Wolfe is how he seems a novelist focussed on exploring what makes for true self-esteem. His characters seem to at some times succumb to soothing false narratives […]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Detective of Dreams in the group
On Wolfe: on MLA Commons 1 week, 4 days agoThe first person he visits, Fräulein A, sounds a bit like “New Sun’s” Agia and a bit like Cinderella. No father in the picture, only a mother. She’s poor, works hawking good in a central market place, but seeks […]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Silk’ Purse is really a sow’s ear? in the group
On Wolfe: on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoIn Short Sun we are lead to presume that Silk cannot admit he is Silk because that would mean accepting that Horn sacrificed his life for him. Owing to the emotional/psychic dissonance accepting this would cause […]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Wolf at the Door in the group
On Wolfe: on MLA Commons 3 months agoBruno Bettelheim in “Uses of Enchantment”:
“In “Little Red Riding Hood” the kindly grandmother undergoes a sudden replacement by the rapacious wolf which threatens to destroy the child. How silly a trans […]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Femina: The feminine atmospheres in the Medieval and in Wolfe in the group
On Wolfe: on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week agoThis book, “Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It,” may be of interest to Wolfe fans. It covers two periods, the Norse (or rather, very early Christian) and the Medieval — […]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post two of Wolfe’s Innocents in the group
On Wolfe: on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoTree is My Hat, Short Sun, and Home Fires spoilers
In “The Tree is My Hat” you have a man who is estranged from his wife. He writes to her, but they don’t get along. He has taken a new “wife,” a much younger […]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Terror and pull-back: short Sun’ operations in the group
On Wolfe: on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoI’ve recently done a re-read of Short Sun and one of the things I’m noticing is that Wolfe will have a protagonist project for us a terrible development, a terrible development that easily could have occurred, […]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Cassie did not relent in the group
On Wolfe: on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoIn “Peace” Weer has Gold where he wants him. He has figured out Gold has been forging texts that have become historical documents. Gold dispatches his daughter out to seduce him. He puts his will against […]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Interlibrary Loan: Wolfe borrowing some of his fans for permanent loan in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoIn Craig Brewer’s analysis of Gene Wolfe’s Interlibrary Loan he argues that the treasure, the green box, is something that allows characters means to keep their memories intact; it affords them integration which is otherwise ostensibly unavailable to them for being reclones who have only partial memories.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Interlibrary Loan: Wolfe borrowing some of his fans for permanent loan on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
In Craig Brewer’s analysis of Gene Wolfe’s Interlibrary Loan he argues that the treasure, the green box, is something that allows characters means to keep their memories intact; it affords them integration which is otherwise ostensibly unavailable to them for being reclones who have only partial memories.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Interlibrary Loan: Wolfe borrowing some of his fans for permanent loan in the group
On Wolfe: on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoIn Craig Brewer’s analysis of Gene Wolfe’s Interlibrary Loan he argues that the treasure, the green box, is something that allows characters means to keep their memories intact; it affords them integration which […]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
On Wolfe on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoGene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Expanding the non-Took-side in Bilbo, for victory, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoI think the thing that must seem most curious about this adventure to slay a dragon and reclaim a homeland and its treasure, is how the hell could adding a burglar be adding the decisive factor? What’s the trick? For there must be one, since the dragon has only gotten larger and more deadly as the years have gone by. Peter Jackson changes…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Expanding the non-Took-side in Bilbo, for victory, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
I think the thing that must seem most curious about this adventure to slay a dragon and reclaim a homeland and its treasure, is how the hell could adding a burglar be adding the decisive factor? What’s the trick? For there must be one, since the dragon has only gotten larger and more deadly as the years have gone by. Peter Jackson changes…[Read more]
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