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...these excesses are not the whole volume. Whenever Moers stops schematizing long enough to let her consider able critical acumen focus on specific works, she produces fresh, provocative insights into the workings of particular female imaginations. She suggests that Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley at 18, is a grotesque birth myth subliminally inspired by the traumas its author must have suffered as an unwed teen-age mother. Moers also persuasively argues that the gothic novel has its origins in Radcliffe's desire to find a respectably feminine substitute for the male picaresque tradition. The mysterious creaking castles kept...
...Shelley Winters as the mother is an even sadder case: a good actress trapped by a bad role. No matter how hard she tries, the camera insists on seeing her second hand. We see her only as Larry sees her or, more correctly, we see her looking at him looking at her, wrapped in the director's gray nostalgia...
...time for a change. Larry Lapinsky (Lenny Baker), 22 and just finished school, pulls up stakes. He shakes hands with Dad (Mike Kellin), kisses a resentful, concerned Mom (Shelley Winters) and leaves their small Brooklyn apartment for even smaller and certainly colder quarters in Greenwich Village. Larry wants to be an actor, and his departure is his first full step into la vie bohème. He dares not put on his beret, however, until he is safely on the subway...
Skipping over some of the major reading periods in literature, the hellish experience described by Dante, Blake's The Book of Thel, Shelley's Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude, Keats's On First Looking into Chapman's Homer and John Stuart Mill's autobiographical A Crisis in My Mental History, I should like to focus on a particularly important work in the canon of reading period. This is a famous Anglo-Saxon riddle...
...course it wouldn't be the same. We had always combined our parties with a "surprise" birthday celebration for our friend Shelley, whose birthday, appropriately enough, coincided with the New Year at midnight. But now Shelley is a married lady of some six months and living in Chicago...