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Trick Mirror
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Mass media always determines the shape of politics and culture. The Bush era is inextricable from the failures of cable news; the executive overreaches of the Obama years were obscured by the internet’s magnification of personality and
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“The literary critic Helen Vendler writes that “treating fictions as moral pep-pills or moral emetics is repugnant to anyone who realizes the complex psychological and moral motives of a work of art.”
― Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
― Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
“image works as particularity, not as generalization. That is how art school changed my thinking about history and how visual art set me free.”
― Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
― Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
“In Brueghel’s hands, Ovid’s tale of a son’s willful rejection of his father’s wisdom becomes a story about the need for a kind of humility—for, you might say, perspective; an admonition about what we miss when we are intent on our own narratives, about the dangers of mistaking the foreground for the whole picture.”
― An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
― An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
“Stories can elicit compassion on a case-by-case basis, but they can also lead us to question our moral principles and our habits of behavior. As the psychologist Steven Pinker puts it, “Exposure to worlds that can be seen only through the eyes of a foreigner, an explorer, or a historian can turn an unquestioned norm (‘That’s the way it’s done’) into an explicit observation (‘That’s what our tribe happens to do now’).”
― Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
― Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
“beauty and pleasure are at the center of teaching. For the best teacher is the one who wants you to find meaning in the things that have given him pleasure, too, so that the appreciation of their beauty will outlive him. In this way—because it arises from an acceptance of the inevitability of death—good teaching is like good parenting.”
― An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
― An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
Adolescent Literature: EDUC 1090
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— last activity Mar 04, 2013 11:27AM
For students enrolled in EDUC 1090.
Angela Carter Reading Group
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— last activity Jan 03, 2021 01:30PM
This is a book group devoted to the writings of the British 20th-century author Angela Carter (1940-1992). It complements my Angela Carter Bookclub, w ...more
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