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Why are we trying to read deeply into superficial texts?

great article – workers of the world unite

good work

great essay

Hi Zahra, interesting essay. Thank you for shedding light on some under appreciated movies. For me, “Güeros” is also worth mentioning. A subtle comedy that follows the lives of some shiftless students in Mexico City. Definitely worth checking out if you’ve watched “Sin Nombre”, since you can appreciate the acting range of Tenoch Huerta who deftly played an alienated writer in the former and a Mara Salvatrucha leader in the latter.

I enjoy art by bad people as a catharsis from my superego’s incessant desire to be good.

Another reading of this story is that Poe was fundamentally a misogynist with such a narrow feminine ideal that it does not matter so much as to whether or not Ligeia is dead or alive because he did not view women as fully human – like men. They are instead objects to be either romanticized or ostracized solely on merit of how they make men feel. I implore readers to recognize that much of Poe’s trademarked madness was sometimes plain old misogyny.

Great essay Samantha. Are you familiar with Ellen Moers’ work where she regards _Frankenstein_ as a “birth myth”? She posits this perspective in her essay “Female Gothic: The Monster’s Mother”. In it she argues Mary Shelly is working through her own feelings of anxiety regarding motherhood. Naturally this reading does not undermine the novel’s leitmotif of the dangers of scientific knowledge and shows how much range Shelly had as a writer and how many different ways this text can be read.