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| 1997-10-06 || “[[Healthy Blasphemy]]: Dissenting Discourses in Rushdie and Bulgakov” || My Master’s Thesis, published in this revised form in 1997. | | 1997-10-06 || “[[Healthy Blasphemy]]: Dissenting Discourses in Rushdie and Bulgakov” || My Master’s Thesis, published in this revised form in 1997. | ||
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| {{date|1995-07-02|ISO}} || “[[July 2, 1995|The Fall of a Sparrow: ''A Note on A Hero of Our Time'' and ''Hamlet'']]” || A comparative note on acting and heroism. | |||
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| {{date|1995-04-14|ISO}} || “[[April 17, 1995|Apropos Sonnets 33, 34, and 35]]” || A reading of Shakespeare’s sonnet trio. | |||
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| 1994-04-09 || “[[April 9, 1994|Bulgakov and Pasternack]]” || Considering the role of the artist in these twentieth-century Russian classics. | | 1994-04-09 || “[[April 9, 1994|Bulgakov and Pasternack]]” || Considering the role of the artist in these twentieth-century Russian classics. | ||
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Latest revision as of 08:25, 26 July 2021
Writing about literature that’s not sf or world lit.
Date | Title | Note |
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2019-11-05 | “Courage through Opposition: The Political Resonance of Norman Mailer” | The first draft of a chapter I wrote for Mailer in Context. |
2018-10-03 | “The Existential Situation: The Making of Mailer’s Early Protagonists” | A look at some of Mailer’s protagonists in his short fiction. |
2014-10-15 | “Breaking Bad: Walter White’s Hipster Transformation” | Looking at Walter White as a post-9/11 Mailerian hipster. |
2014-02-28 | “Integral Social Media” | How I augmented my #MailerClass with social media. |
2013-06-17 | “Teaching Norman Mailer” | The first post in a series that discusses the “legacy power” of Mailer. |
2013-04-05 | “Into Darkness” | In The Executioner’s Song, Gary Gilmore is more than just a cold-hearted executioner. |
2013-02-23 | “Norman’s ‘Mailer’” | Mailer’s multiple personae attempt to get at some sort of truth. |
2013-02-01 | “The Harbors of the Moon” | The moon is a major symbol that haunts Rojack throughout Norman Mailer’s 1965 novel An American Dream. |
2013-01-25 | “The Minuet of Macho” | Norman Mailer’s 1959 short story “The Time of Her Time” shows his Hipster at work, but has fun with him at the same time. |
2013-01-22 | “Mailer’s Adverts & Hipster” | Reading key excerpts from Advertisements for Myself. |
2012-10-12 | “Mailer’s Novel(ist)” | In and Beyond the Late Age of Print. |
2012-02-09 | “Cormac McCarthy's Apocalypse: Signs and Maps Along The Road” | Anytime we try to talk about the apocalypse, we slip into nostalgia to guide our way forward. |
2011-06-13 | “The Novel and the Order” | Will a new genre eventually replace the novel? |
2011-06-06 | “Mailer as Novelist” | Norman Mailer places the novelist in an ethical and existential position of great responsibility. |
2009-10-24 | “Faust, Mailer, and the Comfort of Evil” | Norman Mailer famously stated that technology was the work of the devil. Sometimes it’s best to keep the devil close. |
2008-11-17 | “Frames in Kafka’s Metamorphosis” | A note on literal and figurative frames in Kafka’s novella. |
2004-07-14 | “On Kafka's Metamorphosis” | A few thoughts on Kafka's nightmare vision of contemporary life. |
2004-04-12 | “Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues’” | Suffering, the Blues, and our (in)ability to listen. |
2004-03-30 | “Virginia Woolf and The Hours” | Do we live in or just tolerate the hours? |
2004-02-10 | “What Place Evolution?” | An observation on Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.” |
2004-01-13 | “You Can’t Go Home Again” | Some notes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1931 short story “Babylon Revisited.” |
1997-10-06 | “Healthy Blasphemy: Dissenting Discourses in Rushdie and Bulgakov” | My Master’s Thesis, published in this revised form in 1997. |
1995-07-02 | “The Fall of a Sparrow: A Note on A Hero of Our Time and Hamlet” | A comparative note on acting and heroism. |
1995-04-14 | “Apropos Sonnets 33, 34, and 35” | A reading of Shakespeare’s sonnet trio. |
1994-04-09 | “Bulgakov and Pasternack” | Considering the role of the artist in these twentieth-century Russian classics. |
1993-12-19 | “Revisionary Mythmaking” | On Adrienne Rich and “Diving in the Wreck.” |