colin lavery

book blogging

  • the Uncool postmodern

    Twice in Lee Konstantinou’s The Last Samurai ReRead, he comes close to saying the quiet part out loud. First, in the preface, “I first read the book in 2007, thinking I might want to include it in a project I was writing about novelists who were trying to move beyond postmodernism,” (Konstantinou 2022, xiii). Then…

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  • a more formal introduction

    one of the reasons i started this blog is that i am in a masters program that will require me to write a thesis and i don’t know what my thesis is going to be about. i do my best thinking through writing and i have a lot of thinking to do in the next…

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  • humanities core readings, or manifest(o)ing something new

    “Before the Appropriation of Land, he who gathered as much of the wild Fruit, killed, caught or tamed, as many of the Beasts as he could; he that is so employed his Pains about any of the spontaneous Products of Nature, as anyway to alter them, from the state which Nature put them in by…

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