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Fun at the Garden Street Academy Holiday Boutique, Donald Marguiles’ Coney Island Christmas at the Geffen Tonight, and Reading Ambitions for 2013
Another rainy day in Santa Barbara but I don’t mind a bit. After a banner Saturday (minus swim) which began with the first professional cleaning of my apartment since February and a warm, wonderful afternoon at Garden Street Academy’s Holiday … Continue reading
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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
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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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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