Floyd Watkins and William Dillingham opened a dialogue on Vardaman Bundren by labeling him "... more Floyd Watkins and William Dillingham opened a dialogue on Vardaman Bundren by labeling him "an actual and not unintelligent child facing a real and human problem, " and more recently George Rooks has seen him as sensitive, but otherwise normal.1 While Faulkner criticism has not generally grouped Vardaman with Ike Snopes and Benjy Compson, there remains a fundamental reluctance to believe what he has to say. But Vardaman's third monologue (the " My mother is a fish" assertion) stands out as the shortest section of As I Lay Dying, and arguably the most pointed and direct statement made by any of the characters. When regarded as a performative statement of deracinated totemic identity, it provides a preemptive response to the "language verses action" issue announced by Addie in the novel's central section. Readers encounter Vardaman's third monologue a little more than a quarter of the way through the novel. Addie Bundren has died with her eyes on her youngest child, Vardaman. As part of his shocked, confused reaction to this frightening loss, the child thinks through a complex, although seemingly hysterical, line of reasoning that finally leads him to identify his mother with a large fish he had caught earlier in the day:
Omnipresent, festooning the exits of grocery stores, filling the centers of newspapers, littering... more Omnipresent, festooning the exits of grocery stores, filling the centers of newspapers, littering parking lots and, with luck, bolstering the poundage of recycling services, real estate ad magazines are one minor, highly visible marker of contemporary American life, signs of ...
... war with Spain was a mecca for adventurers and writers of all stamps, attracting among others... more ... war with Spain was a mecca for adventurers and writers of all stamps, attracting among others Remington, Stephen Crane, Richard Harding Davis and Frank Norris. ... Caraher's Saloon, Presley follows the straight county road south to the Lower Road through Los Muertos. ...
We have in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow a narrator who would embrace, who would delight in... more We have in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow a narrator who would embrace, who would delight in the double-entendre Nietzsche's translator constructs for the word lieth. By gratuitously and a-contextually transporting the fundamental ambiguity of this pun to Pynchon's Zone, we make available certain insights into not only the anatomy, but also the affective presence of Pynchon's work, that is, its capacity to act upon itself, to influence the world it describes. At the very least, I propose here one possible itinerary, a segment of an Autobahn that "lieth" as a route through a work of highly complex and shifting meaning.
We have in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow a narrator who would embrace, who would delight in... more We have in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow a narrator who would embrace, who would delight in the double-entendre Nietzsche's translator constructs for the word lieth. By gratuitously and a-contextually transporting the fundamental ambiguity of this pun to Pynchon's Zone, we make available certain insights into not only the anatomy, but also the affective presence of Pynchon's work, that is, its capacity to act upon itself, to influence the world it describes. At the very least, I propose here one possible itinerary, a segment of an Autobahn that "lieth" as a route through a work of highly complex and shifting meaning.
Omnipresent, festooning the exits of grocery stores, filling the centers of newspapers, littering... more Omnipresent, festooning the exits of grocery stores, filling the centers of newspapers, littering parking lots and, with luck, bolstering the poundage of recycling services, real estate ad magazines are one minor, highly visible marker of contemporary American life, signs of ...
Floyd Watkins and William Dillingham opened a dialogue on Vardaman Bundren by labeling him "... more Floyd Watkins and William Dillingham opened a dialogue on Vardaman Bundren by labeling him "an actual and not unintelligent child facing a real and human problem, " and more recently George Rooks has seen him as sensitive, but otherwise normal.1 While Faulkner criticism has not generally grouped Vardaman with Ike Snopes and Benjy Compson, there remains a fundamental reluctance to believe what he has to say. But Vardaman's third monologue (the " My mother is a fish" assertion) stands out as the shortest section of As I Lay Dying, and arguably the most pointed and direct statement made by any of the characters. When regarded as a performative statement of deracinated totemic identity, it provides a preemptive response to the "language verses action" issue announced by Addie in the novel's central section. Readers encounter Vardaman's third monologue a little more than a quarter of the way through the novel. Addie Bundren has died with her eyes on her youngest child, Vardaman. As part of his shocked, confused reaction to this frightening loss, the child thinks through a complex, although seemingly hysterical, line of reasoning that finally leads him to identify his mother with a large fish he had caught earlier in the day:
... war with Spain was a mecca for adventurers and writers of all stamps, attracting among others... more ... war with Spain was a mecca for adventurers and writers of all stamps, attracting among others Remington, Stephen Crane, Richard Harding Davis and Frank Norris. ... Caraher's Saloon, Presley follows the straight county road south to the Lower Road through Los Muertos. ...
Seventeen essays by Mary Hunter Austin (18681934), author of the western classic "The Land o... more Seventeen essays by Mary Hunter Austin (18681934), author of the western classic "The Land of Little Rain "(1903), demonstrate her wide-ranging interests and equally varied writing styles.Although she was born in Carlinville, Illinois, and graduated from Blackburn College, Mary Austin spent most of her writing career in California, New York, and finally Sante Fe, New Mexico. A well-known, popular, and prolific writer, Austin published thirty-three books and three plays and was closely associated with many important literary figures of her time, including H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Jack London, and Willa Cather. Still best known today for her nature writing and southwestern cultural studies, Austin has been increasingly recognized for her work on feminist themes, including the play "The Arrow Maker, "the nonfiction "The Young Woman Citizen, "and the novels "A Woman of Genius "and "No. 26 Jayne Street. "What h...
This analysis of 20th-century imperialism takes early mountaineering beyond the realm of recreati... more This analysis of 20th-century imperialism takes early mountaineering beyond the realm of recreation. It sets Halford Mackinder's 1899 climb of Mt Kenya and Annie Smith Peck's 1908 ascent of Huascaran in Bolivia, and John Baptiste Noel's filming of the 1924 British attempt on Mt Everest in the larger historical context of American and British foreign policy in the era of neo-imperialism.
Floyd Watkins and William Dillingham opened a dialogue on Vardaman Bundren by labeling him "... more Floyd Watkins and William Dillingham opened a dialogue on Vardaman Bundren by labeling him "an actual and not unintelligent child facing a real and human problem, " and more recently George Rooks has seen him as sensitive, but otherwise normal.1 While Faulkner criticism has not generally grouped Vardaman with Ike Snopes and Benjy Compson, there remains a fundamental reluctance to believe what he has to say. But Vardaman's third monologue (the " My mother is a fish" assertion) stands out as the shortest section of As I Lay Dying, and arguably the most pointed and direct statement made by any of the characters. When regarded as a performative statement of deracinated totemic identity, it provides a preemptive response to the "language verses action" issue announced by Addie in the novel's central section. Readers encounter Vardaman's third monologue a little more than a quarter of the way through the novel. Addie Bundren has died with her eyes on her youngest child, Vardaman. As part of his shocked, confused reaction to this frightening loss, the child thinks through a complex, although seemingly hysterical, line of reasoning that finally leads him to identify his mother with a large fish he had caught earlier in the day:
Omnipresent, festooning the exits of grocery stores, filling the centers of newspapers, littering... more Omnipresent, festooning the exits of grocery stores, filling the centers of newspapers, littering parking lots and, with luck, bolstering the poundage of recycling services, real estate ad magazines are one minor, highly visible marker of contemporary American life, signs of ...
... war with Spain was a mecca for adventurers and writers of all stamps, attracting among others... more ... war with Spain was a mecca for adventurers and writers of all stamps, attracting among others Remington, Stephen Crane, Richard Harding Davis and Frank Norris. ... Caraher's Saloon, Presley follows the straight county road south to the Lower Road through Los Muertos. ...
We have in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow a narrator who would embrace, who would delight in... more We have in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow a narrator who would embrace, who would delight in the double-entendre Nietzsche's translator constructs for the word lieth. By gratuitously and a-contextually transporting the fundamental ambiguity of this pun to Pynchon's Zone, we make available certain insights into not only the anatomy, but also the affective presence of Pynchon's work, that is, its capacity to act upon itself, to influence the world it describes. At the very least, I propose here one possible itinerary, a segment of an Autobahn that "lieth" as a route through a work of highly complex and shifting meaning.
We have in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow a narrator who would embrace, who would delight in... more We have in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow a narrator who would embrace, who would delight in the double-entendre Nietzsche's translator constructs for the word lieth. By gratuitously and a-contextually transporting the fundamental ambiguity of this pun to Pynchon's Zone, we make available certain insights into not only the anatomy, but also the affective presence of Pynchon's work, that is, its capacity to act upon itself, to influence the world it describes. At the very least, I propose here one possible itinerary, a segment of an Autobahn that "lieth" as a route through a work of highly complex and shifting meaning.
Omnipresent, festooning the exits of grocery stores, filling the centers of newspapers, littering... more Omnipresent, festooning the exits of grocery stores, filling the centers of newspapers, littering parking lots and, with luck, bolstering the poundage of recycling services, real estate ad magazines are one minor, highly visible marker of contemporary American life, signs of ...
Floyd Watkins and William Dillingham opened a dialogue on Vardaman Bundren by labeling him "... more Floyd Watkins and William Dillingham opened a dialogue on Vardaman Bundren by labeling him "an actual and not unintelligent child facing a real and human problem, " and more recently George Rooks has seen him as sensitive, but otherwise normal.1 While Faulkner criticism has not generally grouped Vardaman with Ike Snopes and Benjy Compson, there remains a fundamental reluctance to believe what he has to say. But Vardaman's third monologue (the " My mother is a fish" assertion) stands out as the shortest section of As I Lay Dying, and arguably the most pointed and direct statement made by any of the characters. When regarded as a performative statement of deracinated totemic identity, it provides a preemptive response to the "language verses action" issue announced by Addie in the novel's central section. Readers encounter Vardaman's third monologue a little more than a quarter of the way through the novel. Addie Bundren has died with her eyes on her youngest child, Vardaman. As part of his shocked, confused reaction to this frightening loss, the child thinks through a complex, although seemingly hysterical, line of reasoning that finally leads him to identify his mother with a large fish he had caught earlier in the day:
... war with Spain was a mecca for adventurers and writers of all stamps, attracting among others... more ... war with Spain was a mecca for adventurers and writers of all stamps, attracting among others Remington, Stephen Crane, Richard Harding Davis and Frank Norris. ... Caraher's Saloon, Presley follows the straight county road south to the Lower Road through Los Muertos. ...
Seventeen essays by Mary Hunter Austin (18681934), author of the western classic "The Land o... more Seventeen essays by Mary Hunter Austin (18681934), author of the western classic "The Land of Little Rain "(1903), demonstrate her wide-ranging interests and equally varied writing styles.Although she was born in Carlinville, Illinois, and graduated from Blackburn College, Mary Austin spent most of her writing career in California, New York, and finally Sante Fe, New Mexico. A well-known, popular, and prolific writer, Austin published thirty-three books and three plays and was closely associated with many important literary figures of her time, including H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Jack London, and Willa Cather. Still best known today for her nature writing and southwestern cultural studies, Austin has been increasingly recognized for her work on feminist themes, including the play "The Arrow Maker, "the nonfiction "The Young Woman Citizen, "and the novels "A Woman of Genius "and "No. 26 Jayne Street. "What h...
This analysis of 20th-century imperialism takes early mountaineering beyond the realm of recreati... more This analysis of 20th-century imperialism takes early mountaineering beyond the realm of recreation. It sets Halford Mackinder's 1899 climb of Mt Kenya and Annie Smith Peck's 1908 ascent of Huascaran in Bolivia, and John Baptiste Noel's filming of the 1924 British attempt on Mt Everest in the larger historical context of American and British foreign policy in the era of neo-imperialism.
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