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Woman vs. Novel: Time in "Tristram Shandy"
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Woman vs. Novel. Saturday, March 20, 2010. Time in "Tristram Shandy". It is amazing how self-reflexive the arts can be. Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. Published just in the middle of the century which saw the creation and development of the novel, already is able to manipulate, mock, and distort the novel’s still developing conventions. Even when in comparison to the small selection of novels we have read for this class, we can see how Tristram Shandy. By using the act of writing in a diary, both Defoe and Ri...
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Woman vs. Novel: April 2010
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Woman vs. Novel. Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Gender in Northanger Abbey. First things first: I really enjoyed Northanger Abbey. I found it to be an entertainingly quick read and I didn’t want to put it down. I loved Austen’s wit sprinkled throughout, especially when subverting Gothic expectations. However, I did find that I had a hard time explaining the plot of this novel to those who would ask me what I was reading. 8220;Oh,” would be the general response. Yet this novel is. Catherine is immediately paint...
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Woman vs. Novel: Gender in Northanger Abbey
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Woman vs. Novel. Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Gender in Northanger Abbey. First things first: I really enjoyed Northanger Abbey. I found it to be an entertainingly quick read and I didn’t want to put it down. I loved Austen’s wit sprinkled throughout, especially when subverting Gothic expectations. However, I did find that I had a hard time explaining the plot of this novel to those who would ask me what I was reading. 8220;Oh,” would be the general response. Yet this novel is. Catherine is immediately paint...
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Woman vs. Novel: Creating Identity in Robinson Crusoe
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Woman vs. Novel. Tuesday, February 16, 2010. Creating Identity in Robinson Crusoe. I think I am beginning to realize why I wasn’t too taken with Robinson Crusoe. When I first read it: the overtones of religion and economy are just too much for me. Not only are they two of my least favorite themes, but they are also interconnected in this book? Luckily, I think I found a saving grace during our class discussion, which we got to through individualism and privacy. The rise of individualism and the popularit...
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Woman vs. Novel: February 2010
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Woman vs. Novel. Sunday, February 28, 2010. The Epistolary Novel and Pamela. In my brief research on Richardson’s Pamela. I came across BBC Radio 4’s program In Our Time. They did on March 15, 2007 on epistolary literature. It is that idea of the epistolary form as an instrumental building block to what we understand as a novel that allows me to understand the importance of Pamela. Better than when I first started reading it. Having never read the novel but knowing the basic plot, I came to Pamela. The p...
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Woman vs. Novel: Rereading and Teaching
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Woman vs. Novel. Saturday, April 3, 2010. Persons' relations to their properties more personalized" (130). Lynch goes on to argue that it is both the restriction of certain books from one's reading and the rereading of others that make for a cultured reader. And one will not acquire all that literature has to offer with just a fast reading. So, what does this have to do with teaching? The author of the blog writes,. When I am feeling ungenerous, I think this sort of response is about the very. Can't fath...
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Woman vs. Novel: The Epistolary Novel and Pamela
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Woman vs. Novel. Sunday, February 28, 2010. The Epistolary Novel and Pamela. In my brief research on Richardson’s Pamela. I came across BBC Radio 4’s program In Our Time. They did on March 15, 2007 on epistolary literature. It is that idea of the epistolary form as an instrumental building block to what we understand as a novel that allows me to understand the importance of Pamela. Better than when I first started reading it. Having never read the novel but knowing the basic plot, I came to Pamela. The p...
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Woman vs. Novel: January 2010
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Woman vs. Novel. Sunday, January 31, 2010. Melting Female Bodies in Love and Excess. One thing becomes painfully obvious: there is a whole lot of scheming in this book! Disguises, mistaken identities, anonymous letters, spying, devious plans, and that messy love web that we tried to map out at the end of class last week all point to the difficulty of procuring and maintaining true love in. The messy webs of deceit caught my attention during my initial read and reminded me of. For my own assistance in rem...
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Woman vs. Novel: March 2010
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Woman vs. Novel. Saturday, March 20, 2010. Time in "Tristram Shandy". It is amazing how self-reflexive the arts can be. Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. Published just in the middle of the century which saw the creation and development of the novel, already is able to manipulate, mock, and distort the novel’s still developing conventions. Even when in comparison to the small selection of novels we have read for this class, we can see how Tristram Shandy. By using the act of writing in a diary, both Defoe and Ri...
