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Category Archive: Close Reading

My Polar Quibbles

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HBO just released a movie about Joe Paterno’s role in the child rape outrages at Penn State (where […]

Close Reading Hester Blum

Scooby Doo In the Museum

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The very first episode of Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, which aired in 1969, is set in an […]

Close ReadingPopular FictionsUncategorized Sarah Anne Carter

The Gift of a Reasonable Desire

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W. B. Yeats’s “The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid” is a poem about turning older and being gifted with […]

Bodies and MindsClose Reading Nan Z. Da

Romance, Relevance.

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Here’s one of the things keeping me up at night: how do we do our scholarly work when […]

Books You Should ReadClose ReadingThe Wide, Wide World Talia Schaffer

This Begins with an Epigraph

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“I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is […]

Close Reading Ed Simon

Being “The One” in the Age of the Phallus

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Are we living in the age of the phallus? From Trump’s ever expanding phallic gestures to the number […]

Close ReadingPopular Fictions Brian Connolly

Heathcliff’s Amours

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In the heart of Brontë country in Yorkshire, an unexpected gathering: men, naked, reading Victorian novels to an audience […]

Close ReadingUncategorized Arden Hegele

OH HELL YEAH BABY, LE CHAUFFEUR

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David Hollingshead: Hi Jane! I’m sorry to leave you in the lurch at the eleventh hour but unfortunately […]

Close ReadingPopular Fictions David Hollingshead & Jane Hu

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