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They Shall Be As Fetching As They Are Deadly: A Reader Responds to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
anthropology, books, choose your own adventure, comp lit, comparative literature, cultural preservation, cultural production, English lit, English literature, English teacher, fan studies, game studies, Henry Jenkins, historical device, History, horror, horror writing, if, interactive fiction, Jane Austen, literary critic, literary criticism, literary device, literary scholar, mash-up fiction, mashup, mashup fiction, meaning making, place making, pride and prejudice, reader-response theory, reading, reading list, role-playing, romance novels, romance writing, rpg, teaching literature, zeitgeist, zombie, zombie fiction, zombies
Oh, The Mash-Up Novel and the tedious relationship between Cultural Production and Cultural Preservation. Pride and prejudice and Zombies… is as important as Pride and Prejudice itself? Let the discussions begin!
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The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States
Academia, Adventure, anime, Anthropology, Art, asia, asian studies, Author, Authors, Backpacking, Blogging, Book Blog, books, bookstagram, columbia missouri, comparative literature, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, Culture, education, English, essay, writingAdventure, Art, かみ, Backpacking, book review, book reviews, critical theory, culture, folklore, haruki murakami, japan, japanese, jungian, literary, literary agent, literary criticism, literary fiction, literary theory, literature, memoir, murakami, Mythology, nihongo, nippon, travel, Writing, 四回, 文化, 文我高, 日本, 日本語, 村神, 余暇い
Oh, Murakami, you sly fox, you mercurial and fluid, thread a web between East and west that we at once desperately need and can’t quite comprehend. And yet we return, thirsty and increasingly drunk of the elixir that is the product of your craft.
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The Way Things Are
The Way Things Are – Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. #taoism #taoteching #mindfulness
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That Settles it, “Writing is Hard.” -Yeats
#WisdomWednesday, Author, Authors, Blogging, Book Blog, books, bookstagram, Celebrating the Life, Confession, copywriting, education, literary fiction, literary nonfiction, literature, nonfiction, ON WRITING, Poem, poet, Poetry, the writers life, writingamwriting, amwritingmemoir, Art, artist, artists, author, Authors, lifehacks, lifestyle, literary, literary fiction, literature, make it happen, memoir, mindfulness, narrative nonfiction, poet, Poetry, productivity, publishing, qotd, quote of the day, wednesday wisdom, writers, writers life, Writing, writing tips, yeats
“A line will take us hours maybe, Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, Our stitching and unstitching have been naught. Better go down upon your marrow bones And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather— For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to…
Nicholas Andriani Rankin 