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"Write like everyone you know is dead." Joe R. Lansdale style. That's what they all say, right? Well, I write like I could call everyone I have ever written something about. Maybe not intentionally, but I struggle to think of anyone I've written something about I couldn't call right now. Not whether they'd pick up or if I'd want to call them or if I'd want them to pick up. And maybe intentionally, I am quite sure that anyone with a sixth grade level of discernment could figur

Breton talks about the importance of using our imagination and specifically our unconscious imagination from our dreams. The word “surrealism” comes from the French word “sur” meaning on top of added to “realism” and that’s exactly what Breton is talking about in his essay “Manifesto of Surrealism.” He says there’s a need for a “future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one

Arnold’s beliefs were vastly different from the ideas of Mallarmé, especially when looking at what he thought about literature regarding to the creation of ideas. Both Baudelaire and Mallarmé thought about poetry and literature in general to be something that people could use to create new pieces, new ideas, new structures, etc. However, according to Arnold, “The grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery” showing how mu

Baudelaire wrote during a time of revolution that was not just about literature. It was during a period of societal revolution that therefore influenced a political revolution. These things combined led to themes in literature changing drastically. This era was post-enlightenment, which meant that people were less focused on intellectual improvement and discoveries, and ended up being focused more on the emotional sides of life. On top of this, Baudelaire was a part of creati

The article discusses intersectionality as a whole by surveying various scholars who have critiqued it, analyzing its impact, and considering who it takes into account. Nash says we must “engage with its [intersectionality’s] contradictions, absences, and murkiness” as if to say that acknowledging intersectionality in and of itself creates more “murkiness” than the issue at hand (195). The overarching point that Nash seems to be attempting to make is to “expose the assumption