Children. You love them or you loathe them. Without children, there would be no adults. Likewise, without adults, there would be no children. So where in this cycle does Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit From the Goon Squad happen to fall? Egan focuses on children in a subtle but big way throughout her novel. The relationships that […]
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Since I am a huge movie lover, I always see similarities and references in books I read. Three films in particular kept popping into my mind when reading The Day of the Triffids and also the idea of society being fascinated and intrigued by novelty things that are entertaining. The Triffids in the Day of the Triffids are […]
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There’s a reason Sinister is the only movie that gives me nightmares. Not only does it corrupt beautiful little children and turn them into brainwashed-family-killing-baby-psychos, it also basically has the monster trifecta: corrupting what’s considered “safe” by our culture, haunted places, and the cyclic quality of monstrosity. Bagul targets the children he wants based on […]
Isolation. This word, this idea…it’s my worst fear. It may sound silly, being alone being “my monster” for this blog post, but this idea is very real to me and is something that has affected me my whole life. Now I’m not talking about Cast Away stuff where I’m stuck on an island with only […]
I’ve loved scary movies since I was a child, but they never seem to have that lifelong bone-chilling effect on me that everyone goes on about. It wasn’t until about a year ago that I finally met my match. My most memorable example of monstrosity, and the only figure that has succeeded in consistently giving […]
As Jekyll describes his struggle to cut Hyde out of his life after the violence and chaos this alter-ego puts into motion, he speaks like an addict trying to abstain from his next fix. Jekyll attempts to go cold turkey, but after two months on the wagon he describes […]
Earlier this year I read Carrie by Stephen King. This was my first King novel, and I was not disappointed. Carrie was dark, blunt, and one of the more thought provoking novels that I have read in a while. The main character, Carrie, fits into the archetype that we are developing about monsters in literature. […]
At an early age many of us identify the things that scare us and become the proverbial monsters under our beds.Whether they be something like spiders, heights, something we’ve seen on t.v. or been read to by our parents(the real Grimm’s Fairy Tales was not meant for young children). Although I developed a fear of […]
Final Reflection Assignment For each of the books we’ve read this semester, I was painfully aware of how I had previously had superficial understanding of language theory, and this course made me want to know more about how language evolves. Before this course I understood in theory what these great thinkers like Derrida, Wittgenstein, and […]
Does Nona believe everything that happens in Demon Theory is real or is it a matter of her living this imaginary world in her head? When looking at the novel this way I think back to the movie and the book Fight Club. There are differences between the two, but there are also many similarities. […]
“You feel this sizzle happening inside you; that’s where evil comes from. It comes from not just badness or not just from fear. It comes from a combination of these things, boiling inside you and stewing together.” ~Tim O’Brien, PBS Special Purpose At first it seemed like a tropical vacation for the men of […]
by Chuck Rybak/@chuckrybak Welcome to the UW-Green Bay Commons for the Digital and Public Humanities. This site, in its early stages, will be open to all members of the UWGB Community who are interested in the Digital and Public Humanities. As interdisciplinarity is an essential part of UWGB’s mission as a university, this commons is […]