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Happy Fiesta Weekend from Santa Barbara! (Plus Preview of “To Rome, With Love” Rave and Reflections on Victorian Chick’s “Rarefied” Life)
I am back from New York (and the Cape/Barrington, Rhode Island), happily ensconced with J and the animals on a stunning, sunny Saturday after a morning of clouds and drizzle. I didn’t plan to return on Thursday, August … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged 1%, 360 State Street, amy waldman, big law, deconstruction, fiesta, graduate school, harvard westlake, husbands and wives, kathy reich, literary theory, manhattan, midnight in paris, new haven, o'melveny and myers, post-structuralism, taft apartments, to rome, upper east side, upper west side, west los angeles, westlake school for girls, with love, woody allen, yale, Yale Club of LA
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The “Vulgar Charm” of Mob Wives: A Reality Show Which Does Not Induce Nausea! (Posted en Route to the Cape on Bus)
Ed Note: I have a backup of blogs on Ben Vereen at 54 Below, the end of Luigi Jazz Dance Intensive and the traditional galavanting of Victorian Chick in the city but will leave those for the weekend at … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Philosophy, Television, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged Barrington, Ben Vereen, cape cod, Carla Facciolo, cultural studies, deconstruction, Drita D'Avanzo, Essex County, geoffrey hartman, Housewives franchise, Housewives of Beverly Hills, Jacques Derrida, John Milton, John Rogers, Karen Gravana, los angeles, MA, Mob Wives, Montclair, new jersey, new york city, Nicole Miller, orange county, osterville, paradise lost, post-structuralism, Renee Graziano, RI, soap operas, Staten Island, TWice the Style, upper east side, William Wordsworth, yale, Yale English. Paul de Man
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Pouring through Books: Fun! Chaucer’s Books Post (George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, J Hillis Miller, Wars between Deconstruction and Cultural Studies…)
I am having a surreal experience. I am at J’s with his son, 7.5, and his ex-stepson, nearly 13, whose 6th grade graduation party I attended a few weeks ago. I have never slept in a house with two kids, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Literature, Philosophy, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged adam bede, aesthetic judgment, aesthetic response, ariadne's thread, assholes in grad school, bronte, celibacy, cultural studies, deconstruction, depression, e cook, eliot, geoffrey hartman, grad misery, identification, j hillis miller, julie carlson, kant's third critique, kay young, lit theory, new historicism, paul de man, richard eldridge, richard helgerson, stanley cavell, theory, villette, yale school of criticism
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“You seem so normal! What happened to you?”: A Partial, Intellectual Answer to a Frequent Question
I got an IM on FB from a very good friend up in Oregon, a Republican lawyer with a wife and children. He’s a smart and fun guy and we enjoy chatting on FB. He asked: “Did you get rescued … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Philosophy, Relationships, School, UCSB, Yale
Tagged aesthetics, analytic and continental philosophy, barbie dolls, beautiful, beauty, carol rovane, deconstruction, depression, dissertation writing, elizabeth bishop, feminist critics, gender studies, geoffrey hartman, grad school, kant, katherine philips, lacanian theory, letters on the aesthetic education of man, literary criticism, morality, on moral personhood, paul de man, paul fry, philosophical criticism, play, richard eldridge, sara suleri, schiller, wsecs conference
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Margo Crawford’s Comments on Brodhead Dickinson Paper (Dear Friend and Wonderful TA), 1994
I include this not for bragging rights but to reveal the intensely personal nature of my work, even as a student in college, 22 years old. This paper was for Dean Brodhead’s 19th-Century American literature. We read Alcott, Dickinson, Emerson, … Continue reading