In an earlier incarnation as an academic, Jacobson co-wrote a wonderful book on Shakespeare with the late Wilbur Sanders, Shakespeare's Magnanimity, and perhaps the most enjoyable thing about Shylock Is My Name is, fittingly, the astute way in which it reads and rereads the play it was commissioned to retell.
Due to these properties, Equation 5 is also valid in time domain, in which it reads E obs ( t ) = G E mod ( t ).
Indeed, the full parenthesis in which it appears reads "(no Carter rage)".
And yet no novel worth reading is static; its relationship with both the time of its creation and the numerous subsequent contexts in which it is read is – and should be – dynamic.
Though the narrative is loose and flowing, and can be confusing for anyone unfamiliar with the world in which it takes place, reading Mirror is an experience akin to reading poetry.
To Kill a Mockingbird gives an insight into the subject, but the way in which it is still read demonstrates that we have a very long way to go before we can declare ourselves to be truly "colour blind".
As a globalised, metropolitan writer living in such a multicultural environment, I felt that my version should be influenced by as many Ramayanas as possible, not only to reflect the environment in which it would be read, but also to illuminate the richness of the tale.
It was a fairytale with a framing story which claimed that Goldman was editing Silas Morganstern's classic (albeit fictional) book into the form in which it was once read to him by his father, who left out the dull bits - a conceit that justified telling adults a fairytale, and which legitimised the book by making it a retelling, as all fairy stories somehow have to be.
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I remember vividly the state of excitement, terror and awe in which I read it, a semi-deranged state not unlike that of Lessing's narrator, Anna, in her north London flat.
With all my Austen novels, I went through various editions when previous ones wore out, but I was reluctant to get rid of any of them because of my marginalia and because each was redolent of the time and place in which I read it.
