katie kadue
@kukukadoo
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foremost zucchini fritter on twitter | “endlessly quotable” | author of DOMESTIC GEORGIC @ uchicago press
LA / bada bing
Joined March 2016
i reviewed jonathan kramnick’s criticism and truth, which i take to be arguing, among other things, that close reading isn’t just for girls. unpaywalled link below
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RT @dan_sinykin: You can now, at last, pre-order CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY directly from Princeton UP. It's at the printer….
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A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises
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i have a friend, well over 6’, jacked, well-read, in touch with his feelings, ethical vegan, trilingual, built a little different, wants companionship more than anything, but can’t get his creator to make him a female mate.
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arguably three, but cary grant in to catch a thief is being cute, while jimmy stewart and gary cooper are genuinely afraid of her.
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it’s one thing for there to be a whole movie about a guy avoiding having sex with grace kelly but it’s wild that there are two
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RT @bartlebytaco: are novels written by their narrators or by the person who wrote the book? it is impossible to say and no one really knows.
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the concept of carl schmitt tweeting “the concept of the political”.
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the first sentence in question (from william empson’s some versions of pastoral)
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i love mid-century literary criticism. these guys would just say whatever, and then come back 40 years later and say “yeah idk”
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RT @Lacan_nocontext: Far from being an aggressive reaction, irony is above all a way of questioning.
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in a way all of literary history is the disavowed reheating of nachos (suddenly worried i’m reheating harold bloom’s nachos) but in a way it’s not that at all.
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you can’t even write 366 love poems these days without being accused of laura farming.
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RT @enoughformethx: Goethe once asked Hegel what the 'dialectic' is, and he responded very beautifully, almost therapeutically, "[it] is ba….
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has any great writer been as wrong about another as virginia woolf was about milton?
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some of you who pride yourselves on detecting AI writing need to admit that a lot of human writing is also formulaic, cliche-ridden, and reliant on tripartite structure—and some of it even uses em-dashes.
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