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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Response 4: "Nature's Sweet or Savage Impressions": The Savage & the Virgin in Moby Dick

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 "As with the Hawaiian savage, so with the white sailor-savage" ( Moby Dick ).   This final L632 response develops some ...

Response 3: Wherein Mrs. Comstock Experiments with Rejuvenation and Becomes White: Resurrecting Racism in Gene Stratton-Porter

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Anti-Chinese yellow peril flyer Japanese immigrant girl (early twentieth-century California) Janet Malcolm's review of Gene St...

Response 2: Comstock & Queequeg: Fluctuating Significance/Value/Identity

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Comstock > Corn stock > [Miss] Corn stalk   [Mr.] Queequeg > Quo hog > Hedge hog This second L632 response addre...

Response 1: E__ C__: Semantic Truncations & Romantic Triangulations in the Limberlost

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As Christoph Irmscher suggested, the E__ C__ name initializing phenomenon in Gene Stratton-Porter's A Girl in the Limberlost is too unc...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

Don't Humans Adapt Too?

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For my last post of the semester, I have more of a question than a post.  Having read and written a little bit on Silent Spring this week, ...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Reading Nature

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           As I am working on my final project theorizing on reading and nature, I was intrigued by Carson’s textual cha...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Appointment Schedule as of 4/22

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Conferences in the Lilly ,   It’s possible that on rare occasions I might be a few minutes late for a scheduled meeting, although I w...