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Monday, June 06, 2011

Lit Crit Stuff Archive

These are a bit dated (for various reasons).

Literacy as Symbol and Material Means in Douglass

Wright and the Figures of Slave Narrative

Necessity of Adapting to Present Circumstances

One of the Most Important Chapters in the Entire History

Uncertainy, Reason, and Trust in "Young Goodman Brown"

Love Poetry, Pain, Distance, and Romance

The Representation of Animals

Bloom and Criticism

Longing for the Apocalypse

Theoretical and Empirical Schizophrenia

Modernism and After in The Art Lover

Eliot, Forster, and Experience

Lewis and Ulysses

James and Woolf

Of Mere Being

Order in Stevens

Phaedrus, the Woolf
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