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01 May 2020
Review: The Sun Also Rises
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I first read Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises in an unknown time and place; my second reading took place in 2009 upon the recommendation ...
02 September 2017
Blog for My Masters Thesis
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If any of my awesome followers are still around, I wanted to direct you to a new blog I'm writing for my Master's thesis called Writ...
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22 May 2016
BEA Spotlight: The People
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I was very happy to get the chance to go to BEA this year. I went way back in 2010 - aka Pre-Kid Years - when I was in full blogging mode...
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19 May 2016
Is Villette "Feminist"?
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In Charlotte Bronte's Villette , Lucy Snowe travels from her home to teach at a girls' school, and in so doing, finds herself. It...
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03 May 2016
Sartor Resartus and Permission to Doubt
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David Amigoni, in Victorian Literature , remarks that Victorian society revolved around oppositions: rural and urban, modernity and historic...
29 April 2016
Protagonists are not Always Good
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In my Introduction to Literature course, one of the first things we learn are the elements of plot, specifically protagonist, antagonist, in...
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26 April 2016
Traditional Wins in Early American Lit
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I recently posted a review of Henry James's Daisy Miller in which I remarked that the overall plot of the novella suggests that the tr...
19 April 2016
Americans and the Other
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Nothing binds Americans together more than the foreign “Other”, especially in the context of war. On the morning of September 11, 2001, I ...
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