The Androgynous Author
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
In last week’s class, Lee proposed a great question that we didn’t talk too much about, so I’ve decided to use it as the launch point for this week’s readings (particularly that of the last two books of Middlesex). The question was something along these lines: Is it important for an author to have an […]
The Androgynous Author
Tags: androgyny, Foucault, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, Scientia-Sexualis, Truth
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Scientia Sexualis in African-American Communities
Monday, April 15th, 2013
As The Scarlett Letter was written in the Victorian Era about the Puritan Era, Sula was written about an older period of time through the lens of an more recent one. To what extent might Sula be superficially set in an older period of time, but actually concerned with society at the time the book […]
Scientia Sexualis in African-American Communities
Tags: African-American, Power, Scientia-Sexualis, slavery, Sula
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Humbert the (Mad) (Creator)
Monday, March 18th, 2013
This being my second time reading Lolita, I went for an annotated version, that I might pick up on a few of the frequent and obscure references dispersed throughout the novel, or at least have the translations of Humbert’s French conveniently compiled. Similarly, in approaching the text from a more critical readership, I expected this […]
Humbert the (Mad) (Creator)
Tags: Adam & Eve, Confession, creation mythology, Lolita, medicalization, Scientia-Sexualis, Vladimir Nabokov
Posted in March 19, Sophia Curran | 1 Comment »
Censorship vs. Social Purity
Monday, March 4th, 2013
I was also intrigued by Comstock, whose interpretation of “obscene” lead to bans on things like books – and the obscenity scale ranged from pornographic language and pictures to anything judged to be influential towards immorality (another term with a lot of scope), however indirect.
Censorship vs. Social Purity
Tags: Censorship, Comstock, Ida Craddock, Scientia-Sexualis, Social Purists
Posted in March 5, Rachel Kisty, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »