Andrew Shields

Renaissance life writing by Felix Platter, his father Thomas, and his half-brother Thomas

Reading Robert Frost poems as poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar

The road to freedom in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “The Road Not Taken"

With Laurie Sheck, a train of thought from Mikhail Bakhtin to Friedrich Nietzsche to Fyodor Dostoevsky to Basel and a donkey, and to Turin and a horse

Josiah Bounderby, "the Bully of humility” in Charles Dickens's "Hard Times" (1854)

Easter eggs, allusions, intertexts?