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Monthly Archives: January 2017
Villanelle Challenge
Write a villanelle using the two rhymes: /ɪŋ/ and /iː/.
Battles in “Defender of the Faith”
Philip Roth’s “Defender of the Faith” takes place at a “new front” during the last months of World War II (161). Focus on a “fight” in the story and show how characters acquit themselves on that “field of battle” (166). … Continue reading
Posted in Reading and Analysis 2016
Tagged Defender of the Faith, fight, literature, Philip Roth, short story, writing
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Stillness in “Defender of the Faith”
While there are several confrontations at Nathan Marx’s “new front” in Philip Roth’s “Defender of the Faith,” are there also moments of what Charles Baxter calls stillness, which he says “is simply one of the hardest psychic conditions to get … Continue reading
Posted in Reading and Analysis 2016
Tagged Charles Baxter, Defender of the Faith, literature, Philip Roth, short story, stillness, writing
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First Grade Recollections
What do you remember most from your first year at grade school? In as few words and lines as possible and without saying what the lesson is (as in explicitly announcing “from this experience I learned that…”), convey the scene, … Continue reading
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