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𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗪𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗹𝗲" 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗼𝗻 -
Dreamlike interior dialogue which supplied its own sublimated horror, but in contrast to the horror without?
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Today, in 1948, The New Yorker published a short story:
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This year I've been delighted to join SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online with #SignumUniversity. This week I'm wrapping up teaching my first module, which is on The Haunting of Hill House by #ShirleyJackson. It’s been so much fun!
Currently my March module candidate is up for vote for until 2/1: A Haunting on the Hill by #ElizabethHand. I hope you'll join me!
https://youtu.be/N3n7LyNDGDw?si=JvEVWkuPgCWvlUPG
For more information on my offered modules, please visit http://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/r/DFQwln
Perhaps my last Shirley Jackson audio story for the night, this was a trippy beauty. Jackson's writing is so specific, so descriptive, that it lends itself well to audio. In all the stories I listened to, there is a common theme of travel, of going into the unknown, and a realization of one's precarious existence in the midst of a foreign situation. I highly recommend them all. 🖤 #AmListening #audiostory #ShirleyJackson
https://youtu.be/OypmpGEbfp8?si=bLrBTAt1Uc38kfG9
Andrzej reviewed Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and …
My review of Hangsaman
4 stars
Reading Hangsaman, it's easy to see why Shirley Jackson is so widely celebrated as a prose writer. She has an acerbic wit, but her voice is always kept subordinate to the characterisation of the protagonist. She writes beautiful descriptions, but only so far as required by the story. It is this combination of natural talent and control that imo sets Jackson apart as a writer.
Hangsaman is, ultimately, a coming of age story centered on the protagonist, Natalie's journey from home, to college, to self-discovery. Jackson's signature motifs of paranoia, repressed saphic desire, and all-encompassing patriarchical oppression are very much in effect.
Natalie is far from a 'perfect' victim, however: she is no Tess. She is deluded, egotistical and misanthropic; and the bracing honesty of her characterisation prevents the text from ever descending into polemic. Hangsaman is cold cynical realism all the way down.
It's dark, it's scathing, it's funny. …
Reading Hangsaman, it's easy to see why Shirley Jackson is so widely celebrated as a prose writer. She has an acerbic wit, but her voice is always kept subordinate to the characterisation of the protagonist. She writes beautiful descriptions, but only so far as required by the story. It is this combination of natural talent and control that imo sets Jackson apart as a writer.
Hangsaman is, ultimately, a coming of age story centered on the protagonist, Natalie's journey from home, to college, to self-discovery. Jackson's signature motifs of paranoia, repressed saphic desire, and all-encompassing patriarchical oppression are very much in effect.
Natalie is far from a 'perfect' victim, however: she is no Tess. She is deluded, egotistical and misanthropic; and the bracing honesty of her characterisation prevents the text from ever descending into polemic. Hangsaman is cold cynical realism all the way down.
It's dark, it's scathing, it's funny. I recommend.
My entire #vintage Shirley Jackson #paperback collection. The Popular Library with the fancy font (& art by William Teason, I think) is the series I had been missing one from, UNTIL NOW. The others are miscellaneous vintage paperbacks I've collected, including two rare ones (The Corgi HILL HOUSE & the golden cat CASTLE one.)
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