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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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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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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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