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LITERATURE: McCullers’ The Heart… – Conflict
The tension that arose in the reader’s mind for the party to go well for Mick, given the knowledge of her character and her tendency to not quite fit in with her peers, does come about when the boys and … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Ethics Theory and Practice – Terms
I am enjoying this book though I’m taking it slow. Just to understand and relate to something and find the correct term, such as the difference between cultural relativism (different cultures have completely different beliefs about morality) and ethical relativism … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: McCullers’ The Heart – Tension Through Character
During the first week she walked up and down the halls by herself and thought about this. She planned about being with some bunch almost as much as the music. Those two ideas were in her head all the time. … Continue reading Continue reading
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POETRY: Trails
From here to nowhere lies a path worn slick as glass by stumblers on its way no one footprint distinguishable from another washed smooth by rain two steps behind. The signposts clear along the way sharp-edged as shaped by a … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Ethics Theory and Practice – Comprehension
It don’t take much lately to make me feel even a tad bit better about myself and this was my boost for the day: In Ethics, the first essay presented is Plato’s Crito, which I just read last month on … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Ethics Theory and Practice – Up Now
As with my last selection of Carson McCullers, something drew me into picking up Ethics, Theory and Practice by M. Velasquez and C. Rostankowski and opening to the first page. From there, drawn into this textbook by the story given … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: McCullers’ The Heart.. – Language
I love Carson McCullers’ voice in this novel, her easy way of telling what is in the setting, and yet I would cringe a bit at what I see as amateurish, in this case, repetition of a vital word used … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Joyce’s Portrait – Finale
An interesting technique–or, seeing that this was somewhat biographical I note, honest displaying of thought–in the latter part of the book is revealing of poetical writing as gleaned from the meanderings of the mind rather than concerted effort to write … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Longinus’ On The Sublime – Possibility
Have been reading just a bit of this online before I decide to "ship now" from Amazon in hard copy form (though I’m rarely in a position where my computer is further than a couple feet from me so just … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Joyce’s Portrait – Philosophy
I’ll be swimming in this pool of thought for a while; Stephen on beauty: The tragic emotion, in fact, is a face looking two ways, towards terror and towards pity, both of which are phases of it.(…) The feelings excited … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: McCarthyism
No, not that McCarthy, but my man, Cormac of the guts and the blood and the rats. Crof of Writing Fiction just had to know this would stir me up some: The New York Times has a piece asking: What … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Joyce’s Portrait – Writing Style
As Stephen matures, there is a natural change in his thinking and character, and from what I understand, James Joyce has indicated this not only by story but by his use of sentence struture and narrative voice. Let me just … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Choices in Philosophy
Needing philosophy right now, rather than mathematics, history or the sciences although they are related. From my list I find On The Sublime written by Longinus, Lucretius’ On The Nature of Things, and of course, Augustine. I surf and scan … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Joyce’s Portrait – Lyric Prose
Taking into account the period in which this novel was written (1916) there is a time-enforced disassociation with the intensity of emotion with which Stephen is portrayed. Still, I tend to think of it as a bit too intense to … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Heart is…– POV
Even when you think you have the point of view thing all worked out–it sounds very simple–it, like tense, doesn’t always come out clean with the rules. Carson McCullers uses omniscient third person narrator in The Heart is a Lonely … Continue reading Continue reading
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