Articles by Leslie S. Lee

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Janet Malcolm and Norman Mailer: Navigating Author, Narrator, and Subject

October 30, 2009 - 3855 words | English » Narration

Janet Malcolm opens her book, The Journalist and the Murderer,[1] with a stringent criticism of journalistic practice: "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a... Read Article »

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"Allows itself to anything:" Poor Tom Familiarizing and Enacting Chaos in King Lear

October 27, 2009 - 4136 words | English » Shakespeare

In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Poor Tom—a figure of madness, poverty, and linguistic play—acts as the personification of the semi-apocalyptic state into which the social world of the play descends. Edgar first appears fully as Poor Tom in Act 3, in the... Read Article »

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Leslie S. Lee graduated in 2009 with a concentration in English from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.