Tag: Self
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March 9, 2018 Thanks to Sam Risak, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. An unnamed narrator sheds weight but not her past in Carmen Maria Machado’s “Eight Bites.” After a gastric bypass surgery, old flesh is personified into a “body with nothing it needs: no stomach or bones or …
November 10, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s blog. In an attempt to better understand how we orient ourselves in life, I turn to Dante. In The Divine Comedy, Dante begins nearly every canto by determining his location. This works twofold as it locates the reader as well as the narrator. The …
September 22, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Last week, I attended a lecture at St. John’s College titled, “The Intermittencies of the Self: Philosophic and Poetic Inquiries into the Nature of Selfhood (Or: Is Literature the Most Important Activity a Human Being Can Engage in, and Should You Dedicate Your …
September 15, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “The mind’s dignity is to acknowledge that it is limited and that reality is outside it.” Fernando Pessoa’s The Education of the Stoic is a thought-project based on the construct of a fully rational self through the fictional persona of The Baron of …
