Gov. Kristi Noem boasting of shooting her puppy brings to mind the tragic dog killing by Gabriel Oak in Hardy’s “Far from the Madding Crowd.”
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They Shoot Puppies, Don’t They?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Adam Serwer, animal cruelty, Charlotte's Web, E. B. White, Far from the Madding Crowd, Fred Gipson, George Orwell, Kristi Noem, Old Yeller, Shooting an Elephant, Thomas Hardy, To Kill a Mockingbird Comments closed
Soliloquies Changed Us Fundamentally
Hamlet’s soliloquies changed the way we see ourselves and others and led the way to the novel.
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Atticus: Future Racist or NeverTrumper?
To see how gun violence and white supremacy are linked, look at “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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Pushing Back against the Purity Police
While not as bad as fascists for censoring reading materials, leftwing purists present their own problems.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged cancel culture, censorship, Kate Clanchy, Robert Hayden, To Kill a Mockingbird, virtue police Comments closed
Are Liberal, Conservative Bans Equal?
Are liberal and conservative banning practices equal. Despite some similarities, no.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Book banning, censorship, Flannery O'Connor, Go Set a Watchman, To Kill a Mockingbird, Toni Morrison Comments closed
Why I Think the Way I Think
I survey my intellectual history, especially the evolution of my thinking about literature’s impact on human behavior.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Antonio Gramsci, Beowulf, Carl Jung, Carleton College, Hans Robert Jauss, Huckleberry Finn, intellectual history, J. Paul Hunter, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jerome Beaty, Karl Marx, Literary Theory, Madame Bovary, Mark Twain, New Criticism, Norman Holland, Percy Bysshe Shelley, racism, Reader Response Theory, reception theory, Sigmund Freud, Terry Eagleton, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tobias Smollett Comments closed
Angry Black Woman vs. Angry White Men
For MLK Day, a June Jordan poem addressing angry white men.
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When the Court Itself Is on Trial
The GOP may be preparing an impeachment trial that has a predetermined ending–just as the one that appears in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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