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Tag Archives: Winston Churchill
Writing the Unicorn: The Paradox of Historical Fiction
“Luckily Nicolas didn’t have to answer, as he couldn’t have spoken. I had placed my hand on his bulge, which was as hard as a tree branch. I had never touched one before.” It was at that precise point when … Continue reading →
Posted in British History, British Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads, Reviews
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Tagged American History, Anachronistic, atheism, Bill Watterson, Biography, Braveheart, commercial fiction, Creative license, Dumas, Eco, Elizabeth, English history, Epic, Fantasy, feminism, fiction, Fitch, folklore, Follett, Gibbons, Gladiator, Graves, Hagiography, Hayden White, Hilary Mantel, historical accuracy, Historical Epics, Historical Fiction, historical fiction author, Historical novel, Historicity, Historiography, History, Holinshed, Hugo, humanism, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, literary fiction, Mann, Marcus Aurelius, mediaeval, Medieval, Narrativity, novel, Ortega Y. Gassett, period pieces, Phillipa Gregory, poetic license, pulp fiction, Robespierre, Robin Hood, Roland Barthes, Storytelling, The Passion, The Patriot, The Tudors, The Vikings, Thomas Cromwell, Tracey Chevalier, translation, Tudor History, Unicorn, Vidal, William Wallace, Winston Churchill
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By Degree – the Political Speech has become a Lost Art
Exposed to a lot of politics on both sides of the channel these days, I have noted a distinct drop in quality when it comes delivering a public speech. A year after The King’s Speech won all the film awards … Continue reading →
Posted in British Literature, Essays, Literature, Poetry, Uncategorized
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Tagged Barack Obama, current-events, David Cameron, Degree Speech, Dwight Eisenhower, Elizabeth I, elocution, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Nick Clegg, oration, politicians, politics, public speaking, Religion, Rick Santorum, Shakespeare, society, Speech, speeches, Troilus and Cressida, Ulysses, Ulysses S Grant, Winston Churchill
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