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Category Archives: Reading and Analysis 2014
Defamiliarization
Pick an object, behavior or phenomenon, like Craig Raine in “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home,” and defamiliarize it. What are you able to say now that the thing is something else?
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Tagged 235-2014b, creative, defamiliarization, writing
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Smoking (?) Gun in “The Palace Thief”
Reviewing Ethan Canin’s story for the test, your classmate had this question: “After Charles Ellerby comes to ask Hundert about…the gun he receives from Senator Bell, and Hundert…gets rid of [it]. The next morning it appears that everybody unanimously turns … Continue reading
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Tagged 235-2014b, Ethan Canin, gun, headmaster, The Palace Thief
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Prison Break
Students have brainstormed a list of possible prisons. What cages do you see Hwang’s M. Butterfly breaking out of, or at least shaking their bars?
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Tagged 235-2014b, David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly, prison, reading and analysis
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The Beginning of M. Butterfly
In literature class we’ve begun discussing David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly which he introduces as being “suggested by international newspaper accounts of a recent espionage trial.” How does the play’s beginning recreate the sources and structures of that incredible reality? What … Continue reading
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Roundtable Conversation 