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
Posted in May 7, Nadia Cook-Loshilov | No Comments »
Flexing the Nexus
Monday, April 15th, 2013
Rereading Toni Morrison’s foreword to Sula at the end of the novel was indispensable in cementing my comprehension of the story. While I understand that the desire to have an audience consider a text alongside a set of principles requires a strategic placement of them, Morrison’s preface doesn’t do justice to the words that follow; […]
Flexing the Nexus
Tags: Nathaniel Hawthorne, relativism, Religion, Sula, The Scarlet Letter, Time, Toni Morrison, Truth
Posted in April 16, Sophia Curran | No Comments »
Evil Senses
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
In class yesterday we talked a bit about eyes (sight) and mirrors (reflection) as symbols in The Scarlett Letter. Our discussion focused on how the characters’ perceptions of themselves and their surroundings are shaped by the peculiar, perhaps deceiving, sense of sight. I would like to continue on this vein and explore how Hawthorne portrays […]
Evil Senses
Tags: Evil, eyes, intuition, mirrors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, reflection, sight, The Devil, The Scarlet Letter, Truth
Posted in February 19, Sophia Curran | 1 Comment »