Contact
Class Links
Web Resources
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Johne169 on Expostulation and Reply The Little Black Box… on Review: “The Little Blac… CMrok93 on Review: Oblivion teithabess on Living amongst humanoids. Authors
- Dorothy
- 4dsure
- ahhcoffee
- anglesbear
- confusionissects
- demosthenes222
- dethsemane
- ebbwilliams
- elephantusk
- fearthefin
- h0p3d1am0nd
- haroldetmaude
- Mikey
- johnbunyan1628
- John
- Jack Skillet
- keatsianfangirl
- kristy0715
- kvothetheraven
- meetmytardis
- mercerism
- overestimatedability
- pumpkinbotts
- scififann
- shinybootsofleather22
- someblogthing
- sskendall
- teithabess
- testamentofdefeat
- thuntroddenways
Tags
- "exogamy"
- "murder to dissect"
- "Of Miracles"
- "wise passiveness"
- aesthetics
- allegory
- Asimov
- Biblical allusion
- Breaking Bad
- Bridget Jones's Diary
- coincidence
- Coleridge
- color theory
- commonplacing
- common sense
- creature
- Deltron 3030
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
- Emerson
- epistemology
- eroticism
- experience
- femininity
- femme fatale
- film
- fragments
- frankenstein
- Frankenstein (1910)
- French Revolution
- Freud
- gender politics
- Genesis
- George Berkeley
- Heisenberg
- history of ideas
- Hume
- ideology
- illusion
- intertextuality
- J. Searle Dawley
- Joyce Kilmer
- Keats
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Lamia
- limericks
- liminality
- Lovecraft
- Mary Shelley
- matter and idea
- Milton
- monstrosity
- My Dinner with Andre
- negative capability
- Neuromancer
- Patton Oswalt
- Philip K. Dick
- rapgenius
- remediation
- review
- Richard Dawkins
- Richard Feynman
- Rick Deckard
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- sentimentality
- Sheldon
- sincerity
- society
- solitude
- The Call of Cthulhu
- Thomas Edison
- Tiptree
- unweaving the rainbow
- Walter White
- Whitman
- Wordsworth
Tag Archives: “Of Miracles”
Mapping Intertextualities: Asimov, Emerson, Coleridge, Hume
Asimov’s “Nightfall” (as the epigraph suggests, and the anecdote goes), arose from an argument he had with his editor John W. Campbell about Emerson’s essay “Nature.” It’s always worth stopping to think about moments, like this one, when fictions pointedly … Continue reading
Posted in Instructor's Posts
Tagged "Of Miracles", Asimov, Breaking Bad, Coleridge, Emerson, history of ideas, Hume, Lovecraft, Whitman
3 Comments