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Gloomy Monday in Santa Barbara Brightened by Lunch at Fresco and Musings on the Literary-Critical Landscape of UCSB English in the 1990s (Another Victorian Chick Ars Critica)
Gloomy gray days don’t bother me; I find them oddly comforting and generally energizing but not today. I am loving the Trader Joe’s mango Greek Yogurt, 5.5 ounces and 120 calories and will go for a big swim and … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, School, UCSB, Uncategorized
Tagged book reviews, books and arts, chaucer's books, christopher benfrey, claim of reason, cultural studies, depression, emily dickinson and the problem of others, ethical criticism aesthetics, fresco of santa barbara, grad school, henry james, in pursuit of the ordinary, julie carlson, kant, kantians, kay young, louise fradenberg, martha nussbaum, new criticism, new historicism, paul guyer, philadelphia junto, philip terzian, philosophy and literature, stanley cavell, ucsb, weekly standard, yale school of criticism
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Sick in Santa Barbara on a Stunning Friday but Happily Ensconced in Book Nook With Book Reviews and Macbook Pro
Not a great picture of me but I am so absolutely in love with my book nook or “jolly corner” as a friend called it before I left for NYC/DC. I was in Kalorama (D.C.) a month ago today … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Philosophy, Politics, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged autobiography, books, duke lacrosse scandal, emily dickinson, graduate school, henry james, liberal indoctrination, moments of being, nervous breakdown, parental relations, philip terzian, psychoanalysis, richard brodhead, robert pippin, samuel becket's company, skepticism, solitude, stanley cavell, the weekly standard, virginia woolf, wordsworth and the victorians, writing, yale english
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Pouring through Books: Fun! Chaucer’s Books Post (George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, J Hillis Miller, Wars between Deconstruction and Cultural Studies…)
I am having a surreal experience. I am at J’s with his son, 7.5, and his ex-stepson, nearly 13, whose 6th grade graduation party I attended a few weeks ago. I have never slept in a house with two kids, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Literature, Philosophy, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged adam bede, aesthetic judgment, aesthetic response, ariadne's thread, assholes in grad school, bronte, celibacy, cultural studies, deconstruction, depression, e cook, eliot, geoffrey hartman, grad misery, identification, j hillis miller, julie carlson, kant's third critique, kay young, lit theory, new historicism, paul de man, richard eldridge, richard helgerson, stanley cavell, theory, villette, yale school of criticism
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Idea for Book: “Victorian Chick’s Top 50 Movie Picks and Related Stories”/My Loquacious Ways
A friend who is always encouraging me to write a book, though the kind of book I wish to write is not possible for another 4 or 5 years, said that I should turn my anecdotal SB dining guide into … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Literature, Philosophy, Relationships, UCSB, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged aging, autobiography, bible, bible as literature, dissertation, english institute, harvard, hebrew scriptures, john hollander, leslie brisman, memoir, new testament, porter abbott, ruth yeazell, stanley cavell, stephen fraade, ta, theory of autobiography, yale school of criticism
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Back in LA, Heading to SB with 6 Philosophy Lectures to Blog About, Also Follow-Up Emails to New Contacts from APA!
It will be nice to see J, and my new computer, later today when I arrive in SB. I have two schlepper errands for Dad and now that leg is messed up, I have an excuse for a pigsty of … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook Notes, Family, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Lingerie, Literature, Philosophy, Uncategorized
Tagged aesthetics, apa, aristotle, beauty and morality in kant, consignment stores, ethics, friendship, hegel, new computer, nietzsche, richard eldridge, stanley cavell, the cottage in pacific palisades, wittgenstein
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Heaven: Philosophy Conference on the Ocean… General Thoughts on First Day (Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Philosophy/Literature)
There is simply no way to describe how fabulous this is. I have already exchanged emails with three people with whom I really hope to keep in touch, including a woman a bit younger than I from Vanderbilt, who chaired … Continue reading
Fun! Westlake Reunion Day 2011: Saturday, May 14, 2001. Joanie Parker/Emily Dickinson!
I cannot believe it! I have never been to a high school reunion. The Yale 15th reunion, the first I ever attended, was up to that point one of the most phenomenal weeks of my life. As I have said, … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Philosophy, School, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged berkeley college, christopher benfrey, davenport college, derrida, emily dickinson, gilmore girls, logocentrism, new york city, poetry, problem of other minds, richard rorty, skepticism, speech and debate, stanley cavell, taft apartments, upper east side, yale reunion 95
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