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Porphyria's Lover quick MITS analysis

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Meaning: A lover preserves a moment in time with his beloved by strangling her Intention: To shock the "numbed" Victorian reader into questioning: 1. contemporary preoccupation with illicit sex out of wedlock and 2. which is worse, violence or sex Tone: Measured madness - ababb rhyme scheme - "the intensity and asymmetry of the pattern suggests the madness concealed within the speaker’s reasoned self-presentation" Style: Dark Romanticism. Gothic even http://www.shmoop.com/poetry/how-to-read-poem/how-to-read.html Death table analysis: Framework: Victorian prudishness Approach: Stylistic (content) analysis Lexical: (words) The speaker of the poem is articulate and unapologetic. He insists, "No pain felt she; /I am quite sure she felt no pain." - in plain language, mimicking natural speech, but as with his other dramatic monologues as psychological portraits, each metaphor requires close attention, as it portrays the subtleties in th...
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Feminism - Gender Studies class notes

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Waves suggest that there were academic movements that began and ended, which is only an epistemological approach to feminism We look at these theorists: Virginia Woolf (the abject, bisexual writing and deconstructing sexual difference), Simone de Bouvoir, Judith Butler (androgynous writing, the present continuum) and Marcel Proust (the narrator's gender is unknown) (also Freud, with the homopsychologicus and homophilosophicus) Interpellation, identity, subjectivity are concepts tied with theoretical movements trying to bring back focus to individuals Virginia Woolf brought focus back to women themselves- the feminine continuum, feminine tradition, alternate forms & rhythms, a journey backwards rather than forward (going back to the mothers, back to Lesbos), breaking the chronological way of understanding progress/modernity (which she saw as the patriarchal method of understanding history as linear). She studied at Oxford. a continuous present wrt time/space/writing ...
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Gender Studies (class) Notes

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2 Nov 2016 Introduction closely related with sex and sexuality introduction to basic concepts, theories, movements gender as a process, not a product gender as a discourse how the gender discourse has changed other discourses the biological, political, ideological constructs that normalize the social construct that gender is approaching gender in therms of the body, especially with respect to queer sexuality, or gender roles the teleological process of identity determined by sex -> gender -> sexuality (like body -> role -> position) the subversion or even reversal of this identity gender a relevant consideration in postmodern spaces - architecture, media, technology, psychology almost all institutions (law, government, education) discuss and are shaped by gender the personal is the political from women studies to gender studies Historical progress: Feminism (1st, 2nd, 3rd wave) Masculinities Queer Theory immediacies not intimacies 4 Nov 2016...
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Psalms as Ancient Hebrew Texts

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A psalm of praise. Of David. 1  I will exalt you, my God the King;     I will praise your name for ever and ever. 2  Every day I will praise you     and extol your name for ever and ever. 3  Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;     his greatness no one can fathom. 4  One generation commends your works to another;     they tell of your mighty acts. 5  They speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty—     and I will meditate on your wonderful works. [ b ] 6  They tell of the power of your awesome works—     and I will proclaim your great deeds. 7  They celebrate your abundant goodness     and joyfully sing of your righteousness. 8  The Lord is gracious and compassionate,     slow to anger and rich in love. 9  The Lord is good to all;     he has...
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