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Tag Archives: twilight
Textual Reality and the Phenomenological World
Although my friend’s daughter asked me one time if the story I had just told her was a “true story,” most people acknowledge—however reluctantly in the case of Harry Potter fans—that the characters in the stories they read are fictional. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literary Theory, Literature, Media, Writing
Tagged Harry Potter, Helen of Troy, Hogwarts, Hunger Games, Linda Hutcheon, Marshall McLuhan, Phenomenology, Racist Jesus, reality, The Appearance of Solidity, twilight, Wolfgang Iser, writerly text
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Fifty Shades and a Silo of the Publishing Industry
The so-called vanity press has changed little in the public imagination until very recently. Traditionally, paying to have your book published was seen as synonymous with junk novels and sentimental and self-indulgent poetry. The only route to acceptance by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Beth Reekles, E. L. James, eBook, Erika Leonard, fan fiction, fifty shades of grey, Gulliver’s Travels, Henry David Thoreau, Hugh Howey, James Redfield, Jonathan Swift, Kindle, Lisa Genova, Penguin, Random House, Self-publishing, Silo Series, Still Alice, The Celestine Prophecy, The Kissing Booth, twilight, Warner Books, Wool
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