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Preliminary Notes on David Shields’ “How literature saved my life”: Reading and Swimming my Way through Labor Day
It a blissfully quiet Saturday morning in Santa Barbara at J’s condo. I arose at 6:30AM because that’s just what I do unless I’ve been up until 1AM or later, and made coffee to sip on the upper deck. I … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Literature, Philosophy, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged Adam Phillips, Borders, Boundaries and Frames, David Shields, Harvard English Institute 1992, How literature saved my life, Kathryn Hellerstein, literary criticism, literary theory, Nancy Miller, psychoanalysis
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Victorian Chick’s Childhood Among the “Beautiful People” and Lifelong Reverence of Beauty in all its Forms
Just about any beautiful woman could become a professional beauty–not through success at court, but in the emerging celebrity culture associated with illustrated periodicals and mass-circulated photographs. The professional beauty needed not be rich, highly born, nor well educated–provided she … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Literature, Music, St. Augustine, Theater, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged All in the Family, arts education, bob schiller, childhood, family ties, gary goldberg, graduate school, hollywood, I Love Lucy, literary criticism, Maude, st augustine, steven bochco
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Thank You, Readers of Victorian Chick on Its First Anniversary! Preview of Royal Ballet’s “Romeo and Juliet,” Wall Street Journal’s Berkovitz on CA Colleges’ Indoctrination and a Fabulous Day in Hollywood Monday at Roosevelt Hotel
I knew today was the first anniversary of Victorian Chick because I looked back a couple weeks ago. A few blogs appear in archives prior to that but those were included (accurately) as earlier blogs on the short-lived Random … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, School, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged adam mansbach, anniversary, asshole song, bill kristol, bridesmaids, C magazine, denis leary, dennis prayer, east coast, facebook, fromin's deli, higher education, hollywood high, irving kristol, junto.blogspot.com, liberal indoctrination, literary criticism, los angeles, los angeles review of books, Los angeles times, national review, neil simon, new york city, no cure for cancer, paul fry, philadelphia junto, philip terzian, pulp fiction, r and d montana, romeo and juliet, roosevelt hotel, royal ballet, sex sells, social conservatism (repugnance of), the weekly standard, ucla, ucsb, wall street journal, west coast, WLA real estate, yale, yale school of criticism
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“You seem so normal! What happened to you?”: A Partial, Intellectual Answer to a Frequent Question
I got an IM on FB from a very good friend up in Oregon, a Republican lawyer with a wife and children. He’s a smart and fun guy and we enjoy chatting on FB. He asked: “Did you get rescued … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Philosophy, Relationships, School, UCSB, Yale
Tagged aesthetics, analytic and continental philosophy, barbie dolls, beautiful, beauty, carol rovane, deconstruction, depression, dissertation writing, elizabeth bishop, feminist critics, gender studies, geoffrey hartman, grad school, kant, katherine philips, lacanian theory, letters on the aesthetic education of man, literary criticism, morality, on moral personhood, paul de man, paul fry, philosophical criticism, play, richard eldridge, sara suleri, schiller, wsecs conference
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“Why Can’t Americans Teach Their Children How To Write?”: Tribute to Ms. Turner-Jones, 10th Grade English Teacher, Inspired by My Fair Lady
Ed. Note: I wrote this three years ago and revised it for two hours. I hope that Susan didn’t check my blog right after the reunion, as I cringed reading half of it. Writing some 500 blogs (if you count … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, School, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged charles dickens, gauguin, gerard manley hopkins, great expecatations, high school, journals, literary criticism, my fair lady, westlake school for girls
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Margo Crawford’s Comments on Brodhead Dickinson Paper (Dear Friend and Wonderful TA), 1994
I include this not for bragging rights but to reveal the intensely personal nature of my work, even as a student in college, 22 years old. This paper was for Dean Brodhead’s 19th-Century American literature. We read Alcott, Dickinson, Emerson, … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Philosophy, School, St. Augustine, Television, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged deconstruction, dickinson, geoffrey hartman, isolation/depression, j hillis miller, literary criticism, paul de man, richard brodhead, theory, yale school of criticism
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Serious Note about the Powers of Art/ Validity of (Kant’s) Aesthetic Theory: Reflections on the Laughs and Tears of Sports Night
NOTE: THIS WAS WRITTEN JANUARY 19, 2011. I wished for it to appear on the blog wall rather than FB archives as it exemplifies the interpenetration of my intellectual life and my pop-cultural investments. Very few TV shows deserve the … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Facebook Notes, Literature, Philosophy, Relationships, Television, UCSB, Uncategorized
Tagged 1998-2000, aaron sorkin, aesthetic judgment, aesthetic objects, art, critique of judgment, depression, ethics, felicity huffman, george eliot, intentionality, josh charles, josh malina, kant, literary criticism, MA exam, martha nussbaum, peter krause, philosophical criticism, robert guillaume, robert pippin, subjective unity, swimming
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