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Criticism, P.G. Wodehouse, World of Wodehouse32 Comments

A matter of style: Wodehouse and the modern rules of writing.

Honoria Plum

“I am no stranger to butterfly belly. A man who has had to pass himself off as Gussie Fink-Nottle to four aunts in a chilly Hampshire dining room with only orange juice in the carburettor knows the meaning of fear.” Jeeves and the Wedding Bells Sebastian Faulks presumably knows the feeling pretty well too. As the author of Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, Faulks has risked the ire of Wodehouse fans (already disgrunted after the BBC Blandings fiasco) and potentially his own reputation as a writer. For one of the problems with imitating Wodehouse in the 21st Century is that … Continue reading A matter of style: Wodehouse and the modern rules of writing.

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Jeeves & Wooster, Plumtopia10 Comments

P.G. Wodehouse, Movember, and the psychology of the upper lip

Honoria Plum

The Duke’s moustache was rising and falling like seaweed on an ebb-tide. Uncle Fred in the Springtime Today’s men and women are bewilderingly well informed on matters of sex, relationships and fashion. But our sources are silent on the subject of character. The very notion of character seems to have shifted from something everybody had, for better or worse, to a questionable distinction to be hushed-up wherever possible. That is until November, when faces begin to sprout the first tell-tale signs of Movember. For every upper lip concealed, Movember reveals much about modern man, testing him in ways he is … Continue reading P.G. Wodehouse, Movember, and the psychology of the upper lip

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