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Month: July 2020

Now Available: The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence (2020)

July 28, 2020 Benjamin D. Hagen

Clemson University Press and Liverpool University Press both announced today that my first contracted book-length study, The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence,

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Proust 2020/2021: Swann’s Way (pp. 224–99)

July 27, 2020 Benjamin D. Hagen

Relation of Parts I and II This section of Swann’s Way closes out “Combray” and opens “Swann in Love,” a section I initially found baffling.

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Proust 2020/2021: Within a Budding Grove (pp. 661–730)

July 21, 2020 Benjamin D. Hagen

Ongoing Theme of Seriality / Multiplicity Continuing the theme that I called “monotonous” in my previous post, the closing pages of Proust’s second volume analyze,

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Proust 2020/2021: Within a Budding Grove (pp. 582–661)

July 12, 2020 Benjamin D. Hagen

Regret: On the Contingent and Universal As the Narrator watches Albertine continue on her way “to join her friends,” he describes his sense of “despair”

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Deliberate Reading: Sharpe, King, Jackson

July 7, 2020 Benjamin D. Hagen

Texts Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. NYU P, 2020. King, Tiffany Lethabo. The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of

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Proust 2020/2021: Swann’s Way (pp. 139–224)

July 6, 2020 Benjamin D. Hagen

Lots of thoughts. Tough to formalize into sentences—or a sketch. But perhaps the one major feature that stood out in these pages, structurally, was the

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