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Is Sylvie Ruth’s real mother?
In a couple of instances during Sylvie and Ruth’s boat ride to and from the abandoned fallen house, the narrator describes images which suggest a rebirth and new motherhood that Sylvie has taken over...
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What just happened 7th block?
Overall this block I have come to what I think is an unfortunate state of relative comfort with Postmodernism. In studying it as a category of literature, I have benefited from reading Postmodernist...
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Who is in the Box?
In Schrodinger’s cat, after the basic principle of the experiment is demonstrated through the use of the cat, it is suggested that a bigger box should be used. Just after this is said, the cat...
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Author and context
As I am writing my paper, I find that I am thinking a lot about the role of authors in interpreting a text. The postmodernist idea of removing the author from the text and especially the reader’s...
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Soul Singer in a Session Band
I was listening to music while writing my Final, and the song Soul Singer in a Session Band by Bright Eyes came on, and while peacefully enjoying the music these lyrics caught my attention: I had a...
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The Tone of Post-Modernism
Time and again we’ve discussed the efficacy of Post-Modernism, whether in our own lives or the texts that we’ve read throughout the block, and with Housekeeping, this question was briefly brought up,...
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The Resurrection of Ruthie
A thought occurred to me while I was considering all the text I could write about in my final that oddly had never occurred to me while we had been discussing the text, and I din’t believe anyone else...
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Wrapping it all up
I don’t know how responsive people are going to be this late into the block and the blog, but I wanted to wrap up with a simple question: What text in this class did you enjoy most? Like Prof....
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“Housekeeping”: Modern or not?
Marilynne Robinson was a 19th century scholar and was influenced heavily by authors such as Dickinson and Melville. For that reason, many critics have read “Housekeeping” as a continuation of the...
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The Red Scare
So, I was writing my exam last night and I had a crazy revelation. Post-Modernism is a direct result of communism. Think about it. It makes complete sense. We get some of our earliest PoMo in the 50s...
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