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LITERATURE: Jamestown – Credibility
I’m having a problem with the character of Pocahontas. From a naive teen to a serious-minded protester against government policy is a stretch. No doubt, the use of ESL can be put as part of the problem, but I don’t … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Jamestown – Language
Been emailing back and forth with my soon-to-be 14 year-old niece today, and bacause of Jamestown’s Pocahontas and my previous comment on her immaturity, I’ve compared the two young ladies. While I can’t find the exact type of language used, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE:Jamestown – Character
Sharpe is good with character, but then, first person pov is very showing of character in how they portray the world. For example, this was great: He’s a funny man, our family doctor, not funny-laughing but funny-sighing, he’s like a … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Jamestown – Setting
Well, as with most apocryphal novels we get an immediate sense of uh-oh, something’s wrong from the opening chapters. We recognize the fact that the world around the characters has changed, though we never find it clear as to what … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Next Up: Jamestown
Been antsy to read this novel by Matthew Sharpe since I read McCarthy’s The Road and it looks like I’ll have the time and head to put into it now. Continue reading
LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night a traveler – Finale
This novel by Italo Calvino is easily placed among my favorite books, and I’d likely put it up there in the top ten maybe. It is a writer’s book, a book for writers. It is a book about readers and … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – The Reading Process
I may have been right in my belief that the last couple of chapters were aimed more directly at the reader, as in this last chapter, Chapter 11, we get the narrator’s decision to look up all the books that … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – Escapism?
This is an interesting section and again, I am not all that sure I’ve caught the drift of it. What story down there awaits its end? is first person, the narrator walking down a street of a large, crowded city, … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – Intrigue
I am getting the feeling that I have lost the sense of enjoyment of this novel; the immersion of myself within its meaning. Chapter 10 gives up information that indeed ties the story into some semblance of plot, the Reader … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – Metaphor?
Up to this point, throughout the book I have read as a writer, seeking out the meaning in Calvino’s words as if directly spoken to the author in the reader. Metaphor’s abound, and in this vein, I have taken the … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – Machinery
In this, Chapter 9, we are back to the concept of computerized novels, though it is for you, dear Reader, that they are printing out that which you seek. Unfortunately, it gets screwed up and deleted. Love it! You had … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – Plot
Oh how I wish I had formed a reading group just for this one book alone! It struck me–maybe unreasonably, maybe just very late–that there is another underlying theme to the whole of this book. Chapter 9, and we’re back … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – Relating & Sex as Space
I laughed aloud at this one, where I feel Calvino has surely stuck this particular reader into his book as well: At all these reflections of mine, Mr. Okeda remained silent, as he does always when I happen to talk … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – Hypertext and Multimedia
A nice analogy to hypertext: I said I would like to distinguish the sensation of each single ginkgo leaf from the sensation of all the others, but I was wondering if it would be possible. (…) If from the ginkgo … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: If on a winter’s night… – Tying the Threads in a Twist
This chapter has been absolutely delightful in its revelations. Having broken the pattern of second person (Reader) as narrator pov, it has switched to first person and that in the character of Silas Flannery, author of portions (perhaps) of this … Continue reading Continue reading
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