Thomas Hardy

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On Thomas Hardy’s “The Self-Unseeing” and “The Haunter”

Sir Gawain

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This is from an English lit. class; it was written on February 10, 1993 … Sir Gawain and the Green Knight What makes a man a hero? Where lies the line which when crossed changes a mortal man into a legend? Is it at the altar at Canterbury? in the Minotaur’s labyrinth? or is it… Read more »

How to be a TV Writer

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Here’s an idea. How about a television show all about nothing? I wonder if that would be popular. Maybe Jerry should have read NBC’s helpful tutorial, “How to be a TV Writer“.

Meditations on First Philosophy

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But if the mere fact that I can produce from my thought the image of something entails that everything which I clearly and distinctly perceive to belong to that thing really does belong to it, is not this a possible basis for another argument to prove the existence of God?

Blake – Urizen

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If Blake was not simply stoned out of his mind, then what explanation can there be for this troubling work?

Keats – This Living Hand

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You can’t eye can’t I can’t they can’t she can’t he can’t it can’t why can’t why can’t eye don’t no. Y’no? It’s im-poss-ib-al. If there’s one overwhelming iota that I’ve been shown by some auricle at some distant point in my youth, it’s that things that are written are written and things that aren’t… Read more »

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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“I got the regular stuff about race and color and pride and prejudice and the sound and the fury and the cultural implications … but what about me?”

Coleridge and Wordsworth

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In which I try to, “Discuss the differences in the ways the image of sunset functions in Wordsworth’s Intimations of Immortality and Coleridge’s The Lime-Tree.” (1994)

VW

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How lame! Here is a little something I wrote in my senior year of high school. Through the wonders of modern technology, it is now posted here for you to read. I wrote this one day instead of paying attention to Miss Bowman’s English class just to see if a girl named Karin France would… Read more »

Titus Andronicus

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Representations of Gender Ideologies in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus