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Even Meryl Streep Can’t Save ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ from Postmodern Pretense
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Even Meryl Streep Can’t Save ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ from Postmodern Pretense

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 / 14 August 2015

The French Lieutenant’s Woman has not aged well, and this has to do with the failure of postmodernism and poststructuralism to contribute anything useful to popular culture.

‘Ripper Street’ Is a Smart, Witty and Humane Drama
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‘Ripper Street’ Is a Smart, Witty and Humane Drama

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 / 13 March 2014
Ripper Street's greatest strength is to avoid direct reference to the killings as an investigative project and to treat them as traumatic events from which its characters are trying to recover.
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‘The Affinity Bridge’ Is an Enormously Fun Steampunk Novel

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 / 23 May 2010