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Playlist Kafka, Moby-Dick, and the Southern Gothic 10 videos
Ready for a horror story that isn’t about a bad hair day? Pick up a Southern Gothic novel like Moby-Dick or As I Lay Dying instead. Though now th...
Call me Shmoop...er, we mean, Ishmael. It’s time to catch a whale. ...Just kidding, we’ll read about it instead. The WWF told us we can’t d...
What’s our place in the universe? Sometimes, we find ourselves looking at the sky, pondering where we belong. Then, a voice softly whispers, “i...
Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Characters and Keywords 7361 Views
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What is hubris? What is cetology? What is foreshadowing? What is transcendentalism? What is a monomaniac? What is apotheosis? Who are all these characters? Will we ever stop asking questions? Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy, caught in a landslide, no escape from reality…
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