Another mythologizing animal sharing a spark of intellectual passion!
Originally written in the late 1990's for a "Popular Culture" Anthropology class. In her book Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, Janice A. Radway explores the apparent fascination of romantic fiction to many women, and examines the needs this literary genre fulfills for its readers. Our required reading was the Introduction and the [...]
Originally written in the early 1990's for an absolutely amazing class on the bible as history and literature. My later notes, to clarify the paper, are in blockquotes. The story of Genesis in the bible has been used throughout history as an excuse for, and explanation of, why women should be subjugated by men. This [...]
Bestiaries depict moralizing animals, but are also potential allegorical sparks that can bloom into brilliant mental bonfires. My bestiary is this moralizing animal's fascinated exploration of beauty & meaning in the wonder of existence, in the hopes of inspiring yet more joyous flares of intellectual passion.
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