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Bibliographic Emendation
My apologies, but someone just drew my attention to the fact that the versions of Benjamin and Percy I gave you are different than what I provided in the endnotes to the syllabus. Here are the more proper citations. Percy, … Continue reading
The Process of Fear
“It is a grizzly bear. Enormous, shiny brown, swaggering, dripping slime from its bared fangs. Jack, you have never seen a large animal in the wild. The sight of this grizzer is so electrifyingly strange that it gives you a … Continue reading
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Tagged "Loss of the Creature", Don DeLillo, Grand Canyon, Walker Percy, White Noise
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Struggles of the Book against the Media
Jonathan Frazen’s essay entitled “How to be Alone” was a very thought provoking piece of literature that began to stir up thoughts about the impact of the media on literature in my mind. Frazen admitted honestly in his essay that … Continue reading
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Tagged "Loss of the Creature", "Why Bother?", jonathan franzen, Walker Percy
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