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Old and New Information in Amy Hempel's "Tonight is a Favor to Holly"
Hempel's narrator toys with expectations about what information can be taken as given.
Nicole Nelson
Jan 1
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December 2022
Reading Response: Lily King’s Euphoria
Details ground the character in the moment with lots of sounds—branches snapping, monkeys’ greeet greeet greeets, and other onomatopoeias.
Nicole Nelson
Dec 10, 2022
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November 2022
Copulas in Amy Hempel's Tumble Home
Hempel takes full advantage of the many hidden expectations and functions of linking verb constructions, which can be deceptively complex.
Nicole Nelson
Nov 26, 2022
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Reading Response: The Awakening, Kate Chopin
In this excerpt, Chopin plays with balance in various ways, to reflect the protagonist’s mental imbalance.
Nicole Nelson
Nov 25, 2022
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A Garden Path Sentence from Amy Hempel
"The nearest neighbor is from the South, and how he knows if he likes you is he puts on Hank Williams and do you know who that is singing?"
Nicole Nelson
Nov 24, 2022
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Nicole Nelson
Nov 24, 2022
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