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Lauren Silverman wrote a new blog post I Am Not Myself Today, But Then, When Am I Ever in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 8 months ago

I wouldn’t describe myself particularly as a fan of Percival Everett. Going into this class, I had never heard the name before, and as I became more acquainted with his works, it became increasingly difficult f […]
Lauren Silverman wrote a new blog post Isolation in Everett in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 9 months ago

Bakkos, who is alone amongst the Olympians for his youth along the ancient. In Frenzy, Percival Everett’s adaptation of The Bacchae, pains are taken to emphasize how singular Dionysos is. He is the youngest of t […]
Lauren Silverman wrote a new blog post Chained Together: The Binding of Vlepo and Not Sidney to Forces out of their Control in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 9 months ago

What is the point of Vlepo and why is Not Sidney only the shadow of his namesake? Every writer has their style, and nothing is quite as interesting as reading several works from the same author to truly […]
Lauren Silverman wrote a new blog post The One-Man War of Not Sidney Poitier in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 9 months ago

Works such as Joseph Keller’s Catch-22, or Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five are both examples of novels that bothered many of my friends, while I happened to enjoy them. Both of these works, much like I Am Not […]
Lauren Silverman wrote a new blog post What’s in a Name in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 9 months ago

I Am Not Sydney Poitier, by Percival Everett was less my cup of tea than it was a cup of iced coffee I was given instead. That is to say, the novel was a touch too bitter and too cool for my liking. That isn’t t […]
Lauren Silverman wrote a new blog post And Scene. What does it Mean? in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 10 months ago

In class last week, Professor McCoy brought up a quote from Laura Mulvey referring to women ‘as [the] bearer[s] of meaning, not [the] maker[s] of meaning.’ This quote, when repeated in class was from Mul […]
Lauren Silverman wrote a new blog post Genre’s Little Boxes in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 11 months ago

What is genre? Dictionary.com defines it as ‘a class or category of artistic endeavor’. While The Bedford doesn’t offer its own definition for the word, it does identify a variety of different phrases that quali […]
Lauren Silverman wrote a new blog post And Orpheus Turned. in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 11 months ago

Songs of old and songs of sorrow, songs and stories told through time, over and over, again and again. But why do we tell the tales we know? Why sing the songs with the saddest ends when we know what will come […]
Lauren Silverman wrote a new blog post The Irony of Being Earnest in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 11 months ago

In the given epigraphs, Percival Everett had said that ‘real irony is far more sincere than earnestness’

The definition of irony, taken in range and source and sifted down, equaits to an outcome or appe […]

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