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post structure: the guilty (and unreliable?) narrator

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An unavoidably narcissistic exploration of literariness and/v. what you might call the subterranean homesick blues. The guilty (and unreliable? Yes, I sometimes call you/them stupid, but only indirectly, and at least I feel guilty about it. This semester, I made my students read Joey Goebel’s. And yes, this was selfish of me. And yes, this was rather fundamentalist of me, hoping that I could force my love of subversion-via-rock-n-roll on them. To be culturally Othered. And hoards of Jackie O wannabes spr...

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post structure: coffee, email and the death wish

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An unavoidably narcissistic exploration of literariness and/v. what you might call the subterranean homesick blues. Coffee, email and the death wish. In the first episode of the first season of my new favorite show, MAD MEN. The advertising executives acquire and quickly dismiss Freudian research regarding the public’s secret longing to hurtle toward its own end.  . The conversation is rooted in the first uncoverings of the health risks of smoking cigarettes in the early sixties.  . I drink it because I&...

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post structure: tony stark and mary poppins: the fun-v or the humdrum-v?

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An unavoidably narcissistic exploration of literariness and/v. what you might call the subterranean homesick blues. Tony stark and mary poppins: the fun-v or the humdrum-v? Well, they’re not books, but movies can be studied in much the same way.  . In this blog, I am going to draw completely unfounded connections between a 2008 comic book adaptation, Iron Man. And a 1964 Disney musical, Mary Poppins. Solely because I saw the two within a day of each other.  . It must be said that I saw Iron Man. In fact,...

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post structure: August 2008

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An unavoidably narcissistic exploration of literariness and/v. what you might call the subterranean homesick blues. Apologies/Fall is Coming, that familiar rush, that familiar relief: that i am not dead, this part of me still lives and leaves, the zombie-fear vanishes, For Now. In another uncontested source of power, Shakespeare takes King John (for whom the play is named, and so, it is, questionably, "his" play, or at least his position is at- or on- the top) and makes him say to a subordinate, I love t...

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post structure: September 2008

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An unavoidably narcissistic exploration of literariness and/v. what you might call the subterranean homesick blues. Back to the muse(um). If anyone remembers that dull period last year after my red hair faded to a mousy brown, you can blame one of my muses, Jenny Lewis. Since the completion of said thesis, I have read Francine Prose's. The Lives of the Muses. And, just today, an. About Ruth Butler's new book . Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cézanne, Monet and Rodin. There's an imp...

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post structure: obstinate questionings

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An unavoidably narcissistic exploration of literariness and/v. what you might call the subterranean homesick blues. Yeats apparently heard voices in his head saying "Hammer your thoughts into unity." A hammer, sometimes, I think, will not suffice. At every turn (and I even recognize it in my own rhetoric), there is a this and a that, option A and option B, nature and nurture, war and peace, Hillary and Barack, to be or not to be. No union there. Infinity. What, then, is signified? In front of students ne...

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post structure: May 2008

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An unavoidably narcissistic exploration of literariness and/v. what you might call the subterranean homesick blues. Tony stark and mary poppins: the fun-v or the humdrum-v? Well, they’re not books, but movies can be studied in much the same way.  . In this blog, I am going to draw completely unfounded connections between a 2008 comic book adaptation, Iron Man. And a 1964 Disney musical, Mary Poppins. Solely because I saw the two within a day of each other.  . It must be said that I saw Iron Man. In fact,...

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post structure: submit to conquer

http://poststructure.blogspot.com/2008/08/submit-to-conquer.html

An unavoidably narcissistic exploration of literariness and/v. what you might call the subterranean homesick blues. Apologies/Fall is Coming, that familiar rush, that familiar relief: that i am not dead, this part of me still lives and leaves, the zombie-fear vanishes, For Now. In another uncontested source of power, Shakespeare takes King John (for whom the play is named, and so, it is, questionably, "his" play, or at least his position is at- or on- the top) and makes him say to a subordinate, I love t...

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post structure: heads, tails, and semesters

http://poststructure.blogspot.com/2008/05/heads-tails-and-semesters.html

An unavoidably narcissistic exploration of literariness and/v. what you might call the subterranean homesick blues. Heads, tails, and semesters. To what extent, I wonder, have I lived "by the rules"? And what have I hoped to accomplish when I transgressed? We are all gods, some of us better than others, creating, multiplying, eating and breeding. It's disgusting. But perhaps by expelling here, I hope to purge that desire to colonize my students. Thus I present The Ville. :). May 6, 2008 at 9:30 PM.