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Subtext: A Life In Between The Lines
Subtext: A Life Between The Lines Subtext is any content of a creative work which is not announced explicitly by the characters or author, but is implicit or becomes something understood by the observer of the work. Text is what … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Biology, Culture, Dreams, education, Environment, Event, Fashion, Feminism, Flashback, Genealogy, Health, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV, Music, Mythology, News, Pedagogy, Poetry, Politics/Economics, Psychology, Religion, Science/Philosophy, Travel, Writing
Tagged 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, A Life Between The Lines, All The World's A Stage, Amazon, archeologist of text, author, Black Swan, Book, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn, Cari Lynn Vaughn, carilynn27, Colorado, Context, Createspace, Decentered, Desideratum, Diaries, Divorced, Dreams, English Degree, English Major, English Teacher, Enouement, Erasure, Feminism, Foreza Del Destino, Gnostic, Hunger, In Dreams, Insight, interpretation, Journal Entries, Kaizen, Kindle, Lacuna, Literature, Married, Missouri, Mono No Aware, Moxie, Nonfiction, Ohio, OSU, Prequel, Professor, Psychology, Published, Publisher, Purple Rose Ink Publications, Purple Rose Ink Publishing, Series, Sous Rature, Subtext, Telos, Text, The Long Hot Summer, The Long Road, The World Is A Stage, UNCG, Understanding, Volume, volumes, Wings of Desire, Wolf Gift, Work, works, Writer, Wu Wei
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Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is the new Hunger Games book by Suzanne Collins. It is a prequel to the original trilogy and follows the rise of President Coriolanus Snow. It is no accident … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Poetry, Politics/Economics, Science/Philosophy
Tagged Army, Corilanus Snow, Dr. Gaul, Enlightenment Philosophy, Jabberjays, Jean Jacque Rousseau, John Locke, Leadership, Lucy Gray, Lucy Grey, Masks, Mentors, Military Service, Mockingjays, Names Important, Noble Savage, Pandemic, Panem, Peacekeepers, Politics, Public, Romanticism, Romantics, Rome, Sejanus Plinth, Shakespeare, Subtext, Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Hunger Games, Thomas Hobbes, William Wadworth
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay published Bad Feminist in 2014, but it is even more relevant this week. She titled the book Bad Feminist because many women, including herself, often do things that are considered not considered consistent with the Feminist … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Event, Feminism, Literary Criticism, Movies/TV, Pedagogy, Politics/Economics
Tagged #MeToo, 19th Century Women Writers, 2010, 2011, 2012-2017, 2018, 400 Years of Class in America, ACLU, Available Means, Bad Feminist, Brett Kavanaugh, Bush, Caitlin Moran, Catholic Church, Cheryl Sandberg, Chris Brown, Christine Blasey Ford, Democrats, Django Unchained, Domestic Violence, Elevator, Emotional, FBI, Feminism, Feminist Rhetoric and Pedagogy, Gender Trouble, Gillian Flynn, Girls, Gone Girl, Green Girl, Hanna Rosin, Hearing, hope, How To Be A Woman, Hunger, Hysterical, infuriating, Investigation, Jeff Flake, Judith Butler, Kate Zambreno, Katherine Stockett, Lean In, Make-Up, Nancy Isenberg, News, Nominee, Outrage, political agenda, Professor, Racism, Rape, Republicans, Roxane Gay, Senate, Sexism, Sexual Assault, Sheryl Sandberg, Supreme Court, Sweet Valley High Series, The End of Men, The Help, Trump, UNCG, White Trash, Yale University
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Joan Didion: Conversations and Essays
Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, 1984 Introduction: Play It As It Lays shows a preoccupation with existentialism. She examines the nothingness of the void as in Sartre and Camus—particularly The Myth of Sisyphus. Kierkegaard She does … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture
Tagged 1967, 60s, abortion, Anna Karenina, Boca Grande, California, Camus, Dark Side, Death, Depression, Despair, disconnect, Eden, Edenic, El Dorado, Ellen G Friedman, empty, Evert McClella, excess, Exiles, Existentialism, Fantasy, Griffin Wolff, Guilt, Heart of Darkness, Height-Asbury, Hemingway, Hester Prynne, High, historical loss, History, Hollywood, imprisoned, indulge, Jennifer Brady, Jim Morrison, Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, John Cheever, John Gregory Dunne, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Carol Oates, Keirkgaard, Lacking, Landscape, Lily Knight, Literary Imagination, Loss, Lost Paradise, Madam Bovary, Meaningless, Michelle Kakutani, Mind, Misdirected Dream, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nihilism, no faith, No God, Party, Play It As It Lays, problems, Romantic Degradation, Run River Run, San Fransisco, Severance from the Past, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, society, Southern California, Stuck, Susan Stramburg, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, the break up an order, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Scarlett Letter, The Self, The Summer of Love, The Wasteland, The White Album, time, Timeless, Tragic Obsolence, Trapped, TS Elliot, usually women, Victor Strandlberg, whose lines are tangled and troubled. In all her work, Willa Cather
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The Age of American Unreason
The Age of American Unreason By Susan Jacoby, 2009 Jacoby writes about anti-intellectualism in America. She was inspired by the book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter, which was published in 1963. Jacoby points out that more than half … Continue reading
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Tagged 1800s, 1960s, Alan Bloom, America, Ann Coulter, Anti-Intellectual, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Book of the Month Club, Bush, Campus Crusades, Cheap Books, Christianity, Clinton, College, Common Sense, Communisim, Communist, Cristina Hoff Summer, Culture, Debate, Democrat, Don Imus, Dumbed Down, English Language, Founding Fathers, Government, Guilded Age, High Brow, Internet, Junk Media, Junk Science, Learning, Lectures, Left Wing, liberal, Literacy, Low Brow, Middle Brow, Nixon, Patriotic, Pop Culture, President, Protests, Publishers, Reason, Regan, Republican, Richard Dawkins, Richard Hofstadter, right wing, Russia, Science Versus Religion, Seperation of Church and State, Socialism, Socialist, Soviet Union, Television, The Closing of the American Mind, The Constitution, The Rights of Man, The Supreme Court, Thomas Paine, United States, Unpatriotic, Unreason, Vietnam War, Working Class
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Blake and Tradition
Blake and Tradition Kathleen Raine, 1962 Part 1: The Northern Sun: Visions of a Sage: The Swedenborgian Songs and Jacob Boehme and Tiriel Part 2: The Myth of the Soul: The Sea of Time and Space, Thel and The Myth … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Mythology, Poetry, Psychology, Religion
Tagged 1962, Blake and Tradition, Cave of Nymphs, Demiurge, Demon Red, Descent, Emblems of Love, Gates of Birth and Death, Hermetic Myth, Jacob Boehme, Jesus, Kathleen Raine, Liquid Venus, Mental Travelers, Moist Soul, Oothoon, Percy Bryce Shelley, Persephone, Prometheus Unbound, Selfhood, Spectors and Watchers, Suffering and Return, The Ancient Trees, The Children of Urizen, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Myth of Kore, The Northern Sun, The Sea of Time and Space, The Swedenborgian Songs, The Tyger, The Zoas of Energy, Tiriel, Vaughan's Cave
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In The Company of Rilke
In the Company of Rilke: Why A 20th Century Visionary Poet So Eloquently to 21st Century Readers By Stephanie Dowrick Thomas Merton says, “Rilke is a poet. Is that a small thing?” It is a Rhetorical Question. It is no … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Psychology, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 20th Century Visionary, 21st Century, Affairs, affect, Alice Miller, Artist, Direct Experience of God, effect, Eloquently, Equal to God, German, Gifted Child, God, Harmony, Heart, Hiddeness, In The Company of Rilke, Intensity, Inwardness, Kabir, Language, Letters, Lieben und Tod, Love, Lovers, Mind, Modern Age, Mystic, Poet, Poetry, Prophet, Psalm 42, Rearder, Robert Bly, Rumi, Sadness, Sensitive, Soul, St John of the Cross, Stephanie Dowrick, Swan, Terror of Beauty, The Open, theism, Thomas Merton, Transcendence, Truth, Union, Writing
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Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison Edward C Reilly, 1996 Jim Harrison was born December 11, 1937 in Grayling, Michigan. In 1945 he was blinded in one eye. He was having his first sexual experience when the girl jabbed in the eye with a … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged A Good Day To Die, Alfred, Blinded, Cormac McCarthy, Depression, Epic, Essay, farmer, Faulkner, Fiction, Going Places, Hemingway, Jim Harrison, Julip, Just Before Dark, Larry Brown, Legends of the Fall, Ludlow, Macho Fiction, Michigan, Native Americans, Plain Song, Poetry, PTSD, Revenge. Tristian, Saga, Salva, Samuel, self-sufficiency, Short Story, Soundings, Sundog, The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Warlock, Wilderness, Wolf
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