Wild West in American Fiction
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Alejandra and McTeague: connected through image of blood
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When discussing McTeague, we spoke about the tension between civilization and animality in reference to McTeague as representative of new we...
Joseph Campbell's Monomyth and The Dying West
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A major goal of our semester was looking at the ways that Western Fiction breaks down our conception of what the West is like, contrasting ...
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Mixed Heritage in The Surrounded
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In The Surrounded, Archilde's identity is (obviously) central to placing McNickle's work in context of the greater picture. As we ex...
The cage, possession, and identity in McTeague
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In McTeague , the canary functions as a symbol of McTeague. While he is in San Francisco, the canary is stuck in a gilded cage. The cage re...
ox bow again
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I was looking again at the Ox-Bow incident, as it may actually be my favorite novel from this course. It makes me with ...
Food in Tropic of Orange
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Food has come up multiple times in our course's curriculum as a signifier of race. In Tropic of Orange, sushi arises as central to soci...
Friday, May 10, 2013
Honor
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The scene from All the Pretty Horses I wanted to take another look at (which I believe I did my presentation on? Maybe? Who even...
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