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Showing posts with label literary criticism. Show all posts

Showing posts with label literary criticism. Show all posts

4.7.11

Video Repost: Jacques Derrida in 1 Minute

By putting emphasis on Derrida as a literary theorist, I must say this bloke does a pretty damn good job of expounding on Deconstruction ...

29.1.11

Literary Criticism: Awful Musing on Philosophy and Literature

I'm not sure how to square philosophy with literature. I don't mean to sound philosophical with this sort of statement. I mean: ho...

22.1.11

The 4 Train On Sunday

He told me this morning the four train is beast. Not beast as in animal. But beast as in best. I had taken it on Sunday after a visit to my ...

18.1.11

"The Red Wheelbarrow"; Or, A Poem About Poetry

In this post, I write about my favorite William Carlos William's poem — "The Red Wheelbarrow". "The Red Wheelbarrow...

14.4.10

Notes on "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire"

Explore Benjamin's take on Proust's madeleine, Lacan's objet petit a, and how poets unlock involuntary memories, shocks, desire,...

26.3.10

What is the Difference between Comedy and Tragedy?

"Midway in my life's journey, 'I stumbled into a wood.'" — Dante, Inferno , Canto I, Line 1 What is the...

12.3.08

Book Review: The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald

Pairing image with text in a narrative is contradictory : the flowing voice of the narrator with the frozen, almost totemic, images, is a st...

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