ENCW 202 Spring 2020
Posted in coronavirus, Point of View, Reality on Apr 10th, 2020
Through “The Semplica Girl Diaries,” Saunders examines the American middle class’s anxieties about social mobility and status. His story spotlights an all too real social group that lives in fear of falling victim to an ever-widening wealth gap. The rereader has to consider our own biases and prejudices through carefully constructed narrative empathy and satiric […]
Posted in Point of View on Apr 2nd, 2020
I know we’ve talked about this in class a lot with Millhauser stories: So many of them are written in the third person and as a historical document. Stories like “The Other Town,” “The Tower,” and “The Dome” are all written with similar fact-based narratives that span large periods of time. These stories give the […]
Posted in Longing for Answers, Mystery, Point of View on Apr 1st, 2020
One of the most interesting details about “Eisenheim The Illusionist” is that it is written in third person. This makes the entire story seem like a fable or just a fairy-tale, especially since we’re talking about magic tricks and professional illusions back in the 19th (and early 20th) century. Not only does the telling of the […]
Posted in Fantastic, Longing for Answers, Mystery, Point of View on Mar 30th, 2020
When I first read about the moving paintings in Steven Millhauser’s “A Precursor of the Cinema,” I was reminded of the moving paintings in the Harry Potter series, the ones that talked and moved from frame to frame, interacting with both the students and the subjects of the other paintings. In Harry Potter, we know […]