If you’re Lena Dunham the Weird, I guess so. Even the way it was written makes me terribly uncomfortable .“…And I leaned down between her legs and carefully spread open her vagina. She didn’t resist.”If you didn’t know she was talking about her sister, you’d think it was fr...
Rotten Bananas, Hip Hop Heads, and the American Individual: Teaching Eddie Huang’s Memoir Fresh Off the Boat and Its Tropes of Literacy This essay focuses on Fresh Off the Boat as an eminently teachable coming-of-age story, provides critical contexts and directions for teaching this ideolog....
[1] The distracted state of the London stage, divided by the factions of players and managers, afforded moreover an excellent opportunity for a dramatist of some means to essay an independent venture. And accordingly, at the beginning of 1736, we find the Harry Fielding of the green-room ...
In doing so research on the word “tumbril” I found: “His rickety “tumberill” (a wagon that can be tilted to dump a load) aptly represents his filth-filled body subject to decay and death.” It was an essay by William J. Scheick a professor at U Texas (https://liberalarts.ut...
"Mesopotamia from Both Sides" and "Something of Myself" are exceptions and examples of truly great memoir-writing。 Some of the reflections, such as Hitchen's essay on the brilliant but hypocritical Edward Said, are also excellent。 。。。more ...
For example, how do interviews, diaries, letters, and photographs provide different types of evidence and perspectives about a person's life? We will also read several graphic novel memoirs and biographies, and in this context we will consider the way that different media function in life writing...
http://avalon-pre.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/95601/V64-I3-33-Essay-Scheick.pdf?sequence=1 Stanza Two A dirt ball dressed in milk white lawn and deckedIn tissue tagged with gold, or ermine flushThat mocks the stars, and set them in a fretTo see themselves out shone, thus...
By the way, the screenshot above is no.17 from a grouping of Visual Notes (VN) for a 30-part essay entitled “Love, Teshuvah, and Filipinos Will Save Classical Music: Cantara Christopher Gives Her Beloved Conductor John Wilson Crib Notes on Todd Field’s Screen Masterpiece, Tár”. For ...