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  • May 2008
    • Fritzl's Crimes Rooted in Literary History

      Fritzl's Crimes Rooted in Literary History

      (Newser) - Josef Fritzl's crimes stunned the world, but such demented patriarchs have long haunted Austrian literature. The dark 1852 story "Turmalin" depicts a deranged husband locking up his daughter; the 1917 novel The Grave of the Living tells of a troubled family and an imprisoned child. "This is the cultural matrix from which Josef Fritzl emerged," writes Ritchie Robertson in the Times Literary Supplement . More »

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      torture   literature   Josef Fritzl   incest   Vienna   patriarchy

    • Dartmouth Prof to Sue 'Fascist' Students

      Dartmouth Prof to Sue 'Fascist' Students

      (Newser) - A Dartmouth English professor enamored of trendy French literary theories recently got so incensed at students who “argue with your ideas” that she announced her intention to sue her class, charging that their “anti-intellectualism” violated her civil rights and caused her “intellectual distress.”  The Wall Street Journal's Joseph Rago, a Dartmouth alum, recaps the story with some glee, right through the "snapping point" when the class applauded a student who questioned her “ecofeminist” analysis. More »

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      lawsuit   Northwestern University   Dartmouth College   patriarchy

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