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On The Masculine Archetypes in Herland

September 5, 2007 – 10:57 am

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote Herland as the recollected narration of a male sociologist. The narrator’s profession allows Gilman to present her vision of a feminist utopia from a generalist’s perspective, devoid of any of the difficulties of the details of life. Instead of showing us the life and habits of a single Herlander, the narrator [...]

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Of Dawkins, Darwin, Dennett, and the Deity

July 25, 2007 – 10:48 am

In Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomenon, Daniel Dennett summarizes his process of evolutionary investigation with the “stock Latin phrase, ‘cui bono?,’ which means ‘Who benefits from this?’” (62). The basic idea is that one can best approach an evolutionary mystery by first determining who or what is the beneficiary of the equipment or [...]

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Show and Tell

March 16, 2007 – 10:48 am

The prime directive given to creative writers — “Show, don’t tell” — is a shorthand way of saying that good writing reveals through action and dialogue, and not through exposition. It is based on the idea that readers want to interpret a text with minimal amount of interference from the author. Instead of being told [...]

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Pynchon’s Miracle of Fantastic Storytelling;
(or) Dancing to a Muted Post Horn.

January 18, 2007 – 10:52 am

“You know what a miracle is,” writes Thomas Pynchon in his short novel, The Crying of Lot 49, “….another world’s intrusion into this one” (97). On another page, in another character’s voice, he continues, “Cherish [fantasy]!…What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by its little tentacle, don’t let Freudians coax it away [...]

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