Googling "Borges Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" doesn't bring anything unfortunately - would've thought Borges was into her poetry (they are similarly voracious readers/live in libraries etc)
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 13 September 2015 11:36 (eight years ago) link
are there any syllabi of exclusively women's writing? can prob crowdsource one here, I guess wd contain at least 1 of didion, jean rhys, moore, spark, jansson, elizabeth bowen, highsmith, ferrante, le guin, munro, elizabeth bishop, mccullers, woolf, comyns, murdoch, o'connor, adler
― hot doug stamper (||||||||), Sunday, 13 September 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
i should read some woolf someday. probably. i should, right? i probably should.
― scott seward, Sunday, 13 September 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
i think i did read a room of one's own.
― scott seward, Sunday, 13 September 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
when all is said and done, i'm a pretty trad dad. katherine mansfield 4 lyfe.
― scott seward, Sunday, 13 September 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
btw scott, do I remember you like Thea Astley? If so, you might well like Elizabeth Harrower and Jessica Anderson, two other Australian writers of similar sensibility and style and sporadic bad-temperedness
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Monday, 14 September 2015 01:39 (eight years ago) link
are there any syllabi of exclusively women's writing?
yeah, i think i remembered where i first saw borges' list, which prompted this:
http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/74-books-curated-by-female-creatives.html
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 14 September 2015 02:12 (eight years ago) link
Reminder that in The Name of the Rose Eco made the blind venerable Jorge of Burgos the villain
― Toploader on the road, unite and take over (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 12:41 (ten months ago) link