Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition For my creative project, I chose to create a board game – Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition. Initially, my intent was to create a game that would test the knowledge our class gained over the course of the semester in a fun, nontraditional way. However, I […]
Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition
Tags: deployment of sexuality, Dimmesdale, discourse, essentialism, Foucault, Hermaphrodites, Hester Prynne, homosexuality, Humbert, hysterization, incest, Jeffrey Weeks, power, power relations, scientia sexualis, sex, social construction, social constructivism
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Response to Middlesex Books One and Two
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
“I think love breaks all taboos. Don’t you?” (67)
Response to Middlesex Books One and Two
Tags: Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, Humbert, incest, liberation, love
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Lolita as a Foucauldian Case Study
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Lolita as a Foucauldian Case Study Reading the introduction to Lolita invoked a strong sense of déjà vu, which I realized came from the uncanny similarities between it and “The Custom House”. Both introductions serve to set up the stories as “true” (or in terms of The Scarlet Letter, based on a true story). More […]
Lolita as a Foucauldian Case Study
Tags: confession, Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, hysterization, scientia sexualis, truth
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“Double Standard of sexual morality”
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
“Double Standard of Sexual Morality.” In Cott’s essay, I was particularly intrigued by the Puritan “double standard of sexual morality” (133), in which women, being of the weaker sex, were more prone to succumb to temptation, even though it was not permitted for them to initiate sexual acts. This lead to greater blame for women […]
“Double Standard of sexual morality”
Tags: Adam and Eve, confession, Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, Puritans
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All You Need is Love: The Scarlet Letter, part 1
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
All You Need is Love: The Scarlet Letter, part 1 I love that Nathaniel Hawthorne has written a psychological novel with The Scarlet Letter – in my opinion, his descriptions of Dimmesdale compose an acute portrait of human suffering and guilt. Hester Prynne is worth countless critical essays, but in light of this weeks readings […]
All You Need is Love: The Scarlet Letter, part 1
Tags: Dimmesdale, love, Puritans, Uncleanness
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