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Zach Muhlbauer wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Sat, 11 Apr 2015 19:24:29 -0500

Frankly, it would be ridiculous not to consider Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home literature. It propounds a diverse array of character dynamics—from daughter-father to husband-wife to man/woman-society to […]

Zach Muhlbauer commented on the post, Language, Culture, and Literariness, on the site Reader and Text

Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:27:06 -0500

I love that you include narratology towards the end of your blog post. Personally, that was one of the more interesting sections of the chapter to me because—and I’m not sure whether Moran mentions this or not—its […]

Zach Muhlbauer wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:37:33 -0500

The elasticity of storytelling, the ambiguity inherent to the reader-writer relationship, the lies that tell the truth: these are but a few of the many phenomena that underscore the chaos and depth of creative […]

Zach Muhlbauer wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 23:29:36 -0500

The most striking element of Moran’s second chapter of Interdisciplinarity was, to me, his inclusion of Michel de Certeau‘s cultural beliefs on everyday life and its relationship to society on a macro-level. As […]

Zach Muhlbauer commented on the post, Why College? Why English?, on the site Reader and Text

Thu, 12 Mar 2015 03:09:41 -0500

Hey Christie, I feel as though a good deal of your points here resonate with me and connect well with the second chapter of Interdisciplinarity: “Culture into Literature.” To start, Moran references Richard […]

Zach Muhlbauer joined the group Reader and Text

Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:00:00 -0500

Zach Muhlbauer commented on the post, Lauren Slater's Heideggerian Truth, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:35:53 -0500

Slater is so well-versed with modern philosophy that it makes me tremble thinking about what a full-fledged analysis of Lying might look like from that perspective. I would’ve liked to focus more on her mention of […]

Zach Muhlbauer commented on the post, Premise Before Product, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:15:55 -0500

I think, as you hinted at in your third paragraph, there is an interesting end product that emerges when fluent, lyrical prose is combined with an unreliable narrator: the former almost covers up the true nature […]

Zach Muhlbauer wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Sun, 08 Mar 2015 03:18:42 -0500

Hayward Krieger, the nonexistent philosophy professor of the forward, brings up an elusive conception of truth that supposedly underscores Lying: namely, Heideggerian truth. I won’t propose to sufficiently […]

Zach Muhlbauer wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Fri, 20 Feb 2015 05:10:51 -0500

There is a little bit of everything in Sherman’s March: self-deprecation, Burt Reynolds, war, melancholy, failure, historical reanalysis, and cultural satire (did I mention Burt Reynolds?), all in hopes of […]

Zach Muhlbauer commented on the post, Serial and the Dynamics of Nonfiction, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:25:26 -0500

I don’t think audio should ever be a complete replacement of written text; rather, I see them as supplemental to one another. I don’t think academia should be black and white, entirely precluding certain mediums […]

Zach Muhlbauer commented on the post, Sarah Koenig's Make-Believe Inexperience, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:17:42 -0500

I like your emphasis on the nature of sound in Serial. It plays such a bigger role than we, the listeners, can imagine from our stance on the other end of the recording studio. All of the manipulation—from the […]

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Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:32:21 -0500

Zach Muhlbauer wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Sat, 14 Feb 2015 05:16:37 -0500

Experiencing Sarah Koenig’s expressive and detailed recounting of the events that transpired January 13, 1999 has expanded my perspective of nonfiction and how the genre can use a hodgepodge of mediums to convey […]

Zach Muhlbauer commented on the post, About Film Talk, on the site Film Talk

Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:15:30 -0500

It’s an interesting question: how much of a hero’s achievements are of his or her own conscious deliberation and how much are products of happenstance? Both of these sides of a hero’s fate are symbiotically […]

Zach Muhlbauer wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction

Sun, 01 Feb 2015 06:40:39 -0500

In Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion‘s nonfictional profiles often serve as a commentary on the American dream in regards to California culture. She develops this complex idea by examining the personal, […]

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Sun, 01 Feb 2015 03:32:12 -0500

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Sun, 01 Feb 2015 03:31:28 -0500