About Me
I love films, baseball, whales, good food, and guys in ties. I teach literature, film and cultural studies at university. I worship at the Church of Springsteen. Sometimes I write reviews. You may now also call me Doctor.
Byronic [bai'ra:-nik] 1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. 2.quasi-n. pl. [after Philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron. 3. Byronic hero: prominent literary character type of the Romantic period, whose characteristics include: extraordinary intelligence and perception; high level of education and intellectual prowess; arrogance; cunning and manipulation; emotional conflictedness; moodiness; self-criticism and introspection; self-destructive behaviour; aesthetic sophistication; dark mysterious beauty; powers of attraction; seductiveness and sexual perversion; world-weariness; distaste for social institutions and norms; disrespect of social ranks; being an outcast, an outlaw, or an exile.
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