Continuing my memoir, I look at why I majored in history, not English, at Carleton College, even though lit was my great love.
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Why I Majored in History, Not English
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Lit and Life: My Intellectual Trajectory
I’ve long held that great literature impacts history harder than lesser literature. I trace the evolution of my ideas in today’s post.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, Discourse on Inequality, Feminism, Hans Robert Jauss, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Letter on the Blind, Martin Chuzzlewit, Marxism, post-colonialism, queer theory, reception theory Comments closed
Sons Must Kill Their Fathers, Alas
There’s is no easy way for son’s to find their identities apart from their fathers, but they have no choice but to try.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged fathers and sons, Henry IV, Homer, Odyssey, Shakespeare, Stendahl, The Scarlet and the Black Comments closed