Echoes of Empire
Echoes of Empire: Postcolonial Melancholy in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Elizabeth Taylor’s Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Lola Rose, Aujgust, 2024 In comparing Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners alongside Elizabeth Taylor’s Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, shared perspectives emerge on the waning British Empire, postcolonial melancholy and evolving regional identities. Despite employing […]
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Thursday, August 15, 2024 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
Decolonising Gender: Unveiling the Power of Postcolonial Studies
‘If, in the context of colonial production, the subaltern has no history and cannot speak, the subaltern as a female is even more deeply in the shadow’ (Spivak 1998: 28). Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, in her exploration of the subjugation of marginalised voices, poses the question, Can the Subaltern Speak? (Spivak: 1998). Within the framework of […]
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Monday, February 5, 2024 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
Lola Rose: Religion vs. Nature in Things Fall Apart & Parable of the Sower: A Comparative Analysis
As the ongoing challenges of the climate crisis in modernity continue to arise, the incorporation of ecological concepts in literature has facilitated scholarship in restoring harmony between living organisms and their physical environment, bringing attention to the threats that face the natural world. Thus, it is made apparent that the study of interconnectedness in nature […]
Monday, February 6, 2023 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
D.J. Ammara by Lola Rose
In the heart of London’s theatrical arts, an aspiring adolescent named Ammara Niwaz stood behind the incandescent stage lights of the Shakespeare’s Globe, anxiously awaiting her cue. The sounds of eerie whispers echoed around the dome, as the audience began to take their seats. Directors hastily snapped their fingers whilst performers took their positions and […]
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
Analysing socio-political themes of protest cinema in Carla’s song by Ken Loach
en:User:Ozgurgerilla, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons Lola Rose – discusses Carla’s song by Ken Loach The political sociology made prominent in Ken Loach’s films often depict inequality in Britain through various narratives. Carla’s Song (Loach, 1997) continues to explore Loach’s social-realist tradition of fighting against the establishment, by delving into the poetic portrayal […]
Wednesday, July 6, 2022 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer, Pat's Home Page Blog
The Literary Treatment of Racism – Lola Rose
The literary treatment of racism in the works of Jane Eyre and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ‘The black slave narrators sought to indict both those who enslaved them and the metaphysical system drawn upon to justify their enslavement. They did so using the most enduring weapon at their disposal, the printing […]
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer, Writing
Lola Rose’s Blog: Justice Ballads
(Image: Civil_rights_parade_at_the_1964_RNC_2 Warren K. Leffler, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) The significance of Justice in relation to the Ballad through the works of Bob Dylan, Abel Meeropol and Dudley Randall The Ballad form is often used to narrate a story or historical event and is typically rooted (or purported to be rooted) in the culture […]
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Thursday, January 6, 2022 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
Sexuality and Race in Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare – Lola Rose
When observing the Early Modern Sonnet form, it is noticeable how much of the content is engaged with issues of diverse minority groups. Sonnets regularly consider issues such as that of race, gender, and sexuality and poets can cleverly disguise the speaker’s love object dynamic to insert non-heterosexual states of desire into their work. Much […]
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Sunday, December 12, 2021 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
Lola Rose’s Blog: Intersectional Feminism in the First Wave Movement
(Image accreditation Danielundso, original: J. Howard Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Intersectional feminism and its lack of representation in the first wave movement ‘Wollstonecraft and Woolf will forever both be known as remarkable writers and pioneers in feminist theory but the development of women’s virtue in recent decades has left their work […]
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Sunday, June 20, 2021 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Wolf – Review
Review By Lola Rose The rise of the pandemic has forcibly restricted my being able to travel on my gap year before starting University in September, 2021. I’ve been lacking in motivation to read or write and so I decided that it would be beneficial and make use of my time at home by completing […]
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Friday, January 29, 2021 | Filed under: Book and Event Reviews, Lola Rose: aspiring writer, Writing
Lola Rose’s blog: Is the House of Lords an outdated concept in our modern democracy?
UK government / OGL 3 (UK government / OGL 3 (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3)) The House of Lords is currently one of the two chambers of the UK parliament. The House of Lords scrutinises, reviews and amends Bills from the House of Commons and can delay bills forcing the House of Commons to reconsider its decisions. The Lords […]
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
Media Influence and How Secular Society Perceives Religion – Lola Rose
“Bigotry’s Blood” by Olu Emmanuel Dada is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 To what extent does the media influence the manner in which secular society perceives religion? It could be argued that religious extremism is currently the biggest factor affecting the manner in which religion is viewed by secular society at large and by believers […]
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Sunday, August 18, 2019 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
Grief a poem by Lola Rose
Grief As the rosy-fingered dawn is awoken I slumber in my bed unspoken Unable to come to terms with grief What it has taken from me and what it can leave Far from home but close in mind Death has kept us behind It creeps upon one like the dawn of night Stealing all that […]
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
‘Young Solitude’ Review by Lola Rose
‘Young Solitude’ ‘Young Solitude’ (‘Premieres Solitudes’) devised by the French filmmaker Claire Simon and a group of young film students is a stylised, passionate, fly-on-the-wall documentary. In other words it’s very much a French picture – introspective, beguiling, truthful and emotional all in one. The film is centred upon troubled adolescents trying to cope with […]
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Saturday, September 22, 2018 | Filed under: Cinema, Lola Rose: aspiring writer, Pat's Home Page Blog
Is the pressure to succeed distorting our education?
(Photo commons wikimedia) Amongst younger members of today’s society there is a huge amount of pressure on high-school students to do well and “succeed” in their examinations. Indeed, it seems to me that schools often care more for their overall exam outcomes than they do for the welfare and well-being of the individuals who are […]
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Monday, July 23, 2018 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
Lola Rose’s blog: Serenity Now Café plus recipes for Healthy Eating
Serenity Now Café, Glasgow I was delighted to discover Serenity Now Café, a new Vegan Cafe on Great Western Road. I really enjoyed breakfast and it inspired me to try out some new recipes. So if you are ever walking down Great Western Road I would recommend dropping in to Serenity Now – it has […]
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Friday, June 22, 2018 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
Lola Rose’s blog: Review of Philadelphia, Here I Come
‘Philadelphia, Here I Come’ is a play set in Ireland, which has been performed at many local theatres throughout Scotland and a variety of well-known theatres across the U.K. including The Donmar Warehouse in London . The play was also converted into a film which became extremely successful in the mid-70s, 10 years after […]
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
A Tribute to Leonard Cohen
I’ve always loved the poem ‘Suzanne’ by Leonard Cohen, after he died at the end of 2016, I decided to write an essay dedicated to him. Suzanne – A Tribute to Leonard Cohen “Suzanne”, by the modern romantic music legend Leonard Cohen, is a song/poem touching on love and the surreal craving for affection. […]
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Monday, June 18, 2018 | Filed under: Lola Rose: aspiring writer
