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Benjamin’s Uncompleted Work, An Experience, and Stream of Consciousness
When reading An Alternative to Fun, I noticed that the author has mentioned Benjamin’s uncompleted work The Arcades Project, by describing it as “a massive montage of quotes, observations,… more →
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Progress Backwards: Star Trek’s Voyage Away From the Leading Edge
wrote 2 days ago: My friend Crystal over at Geek Outsider was kind enough to ask for my thoughts on the recent media c … more →
Reading Russ - Part 5
wrote 4 days ago: Chapter 4: Pollution of Agency Russ spends much of this chapter demonstrating that even though it … more →
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, by David Shields
wrote 4 days ago: I’m not going to review this book because I think it is simply a presentation of sheer and utt … more →
Everyone's a Critic: Why Kenyon Literature is Suffering From a Lack of Criticism
wrote 4 days ago: Despite Kenyon’s literary reputation, there persists a general feeling on its campus that a truly co … more →
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Pippi to Ripley 2013
wrote 5 days ago: Apologies for the radio silence, I’ve been a bit busy lately. Class finished up last weekend. The w … more →
Why The Rule of Metaphor?
wrote 6 days ago: Some days ago, I made a comment on the title of the English edition of Paul Ricoeur’s La Métap … more →
Practical Information on Ricoeur's Theory Today
wrote 1 week ago: For those interested in Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics and aesthetics, I am glad to show you impo … more →
Post Colonialism Interpretation of Sherman Alexie's "Indian Education"
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wrote 1 week ago: In quick glimpses of the different grades in school, Native American author Sherman Alexie is able t … more →
The Crisis of Film, Art and Narrative
wrote 1 week ago: Anyone whose seen the 1927 film Sunrise knows that it’s a first-rate masterpiece. It is a simple, a … more →
Adaptation (2002) and Deconstruction
wrote 1 week ago: Since Jacques Derrida first published “Of Grammatology” in 1967, Deconstruction has caused a great d … more →
A Day Of Clichés
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I have the best of both worlds; the world of intellectual stimulation at Uni, and quite often (yes r … more →
Literary Term of the Day: Abject, Abjection
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wrote 2 weeks ago: According to David Mikics, A New Handbook of Literary Terms: abject, abjection: In the early 1980s, … more →
Modernism's 'Gothic Moment' and the 'awareness of mutability'
wrote 2 weeks ago: Introducing the complexities of Gothic literary history for his 2001 Companion to the Gothic, David … more →
Ricoeur and his Wonderful Worlds
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wrote 2 weeks ago: The Rule of Metaphor is a betraying translation for La Métaphore Vive (1975), a fantastic theory of … more →
On Myth, On Fairy Tale
wrote 2 weeks ago: {{This blog begins (finally!) with an exposition and discussion regarding the nature, relationship a … more →
Thomas' Tragic Universe
wrote 2 weeks ago: Scarlett Thomas’s novels make me feel like I’m back at university, sitting in a seminar, … more →
Death in Venice and the Death of the Individual
wrote 3 weeks ago: In Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice we encounter humanity’s dual, conflicting natur … more →
