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Everybody’s Zora: “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” | Dead White Guys
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Taking on the Great Books. Everybody’s Zora: “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”. Posted in Great Book Readings. At long last, we return to reading great literature! Dead White Guys will kick off its summer reading with “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”. By the inimitable Zora Neale Hurston, which happens to be one of my favorite essays in the whole of the written world. This woman. So completely amazing. I left Eatonville, the town of the oleanders, a Zora. When I disembarked from the river-boat at Jackso...
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Further Study | She who sleeps
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Higher ed, ethical living, writing, and the occasional flesh-eating ghoul. Chi dorme non piglia pesce? Recent Publications, Honors, & Prizes. July 5, 2016. July 5, 2016. First post of the month written on my phone! I’m not quite ready to sit at a computer this morning.). 21 or so months ago, when I decided my life didn’t need to look like everyone else’s with a 9-5 at an office, one of the pieces I wanted to figure out was the next step on my academic aspirations. Plus the two programs I like best are bo...
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Ethan Frome, Ethan Frome | Dead White Guys
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Taking on the Great Books. Ethan Frome, Ethan Frome. Posted in Great Book Readings. Returns with our reading of the novel. By Edith Wharton. We’ll cover a chapter a week for the next ten weeks, beginning today with the novel’s prologue, which introduces the unnamed narrator and titular character. Wharton is a master of bleak landscapes and tortured protagonists–which may be partly responsible for her inclusion in the canon–so you can expect to find plenty of both. Like this, but with more chemistry.
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Langston Hughes: Themes and Dreams | Dead White Guys
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Taking on the Great Books. Langston Hughes: Themes and Dreams. Posted in Great Book Readings. I hope you enjoyed the Langston Hughes poems we read for this. Month Sorry for the delay in discussion–February rather got away from me. But it’s never the wrong time to discuss Langston Hughes! I look forward to your thoughts both on the poems’ form and execution, their place in the canon, and what they mean in a broader cultural context. Theme for English B. I am twenty-two, born in Winston-Salem”–. 8221; yet ...
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Are you a patriot? | She who sleeps
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Higher ed, ethical living, writing, and the occasional flesh-eating ghoul. Chi dorme non piglia pesce? Recent Publications, Honors, & Prizes. Are you a patriot? July 4, 2016. July 4, 2016. Happy Fourth of July, American and American-adjacent/resident friends! Happy Monday, everyone else! Independence Day is a weird holiday for me. For the longest time, I associated it with hot car trips up the Pennsylvania, where we celebrated both it and my grandmother’s birthday. That’s such a bizarre stance to t...
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Julia | Dead White Guys
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Taking on the Great Books. Ethan Frome, Ethan Frome. Posted in Great Book Readings. Returns with our reading of the novel. By Edith Wharton. We’ll cover a chapter a week for the next ten weeks, beginning today with the novel’s prologue, which introduces the unnamed narrator and titular character. Wharton is a master of bleak landscapes and tortured protagonists–which may be partly responsible for her inclusion in the canon–so you can expect to find plenty of both. Like this, but with more chemistry.
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What the canon is and how we can defeat it | Dead White Guys
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Taking on the Great Books. What the canon is and how we can defeat it. Yes, Dead White Guys. Is finally back. Thank you for your patience. Let’s get back in it. Before we return to reading seminal (uck) texts in the Western tradition, however, I wanted to pause briefly and consider the object of our continued study: the philosophical and literary canon. Who decides the literary canon? Well, the editors of. Who we think chooses the canon. So, when your philosophy professor wants to introduce you to the fo...
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