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The point of the children in White Noise
In the process of working on my final paper, I came across an aspect of White Noise that can’t exactly be placed in a category or applied to one of our widely discussed themes of death, disaster and media. This … Continue reading
Romanticism in Blood Meridian
In class, we had listed characteristics of the “Western” genre. Some keywords on the board included “loner” and ever “romanticized”. While Blood Meridian is clearly separated from typical genre work, it still maintains a variation of these western genre characteristics, … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, Realism, Romanticism
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Fragments Regarding Fleeting and Permanent American Nightmares:
…the very opposite of the American Dream. They aren’t dependable. They are inconsistent and unreliable, both in calamity and prosperity. Momentary “nightmares” are threaded throughout every single one of the texts we’ve looked at this semester. They don’t last physically, but … Continue reading
World of Warcraft- An Entirely Relevant Narrative
In some respects, the history of Azeroth is as deeply engaged in a detailed, active history as Tolkien’s Silmarillion, the posthumous collection of narratives describing the specifics of Middle Earth from creation to outcome and every action in between. In … Continue reading
