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Tag Archives: Smith and Watson
L is for the way you look at me…
In concert with my post from last week, Black-Out Conversion, I want to tackle another topic from Smith & Watson’s Chapter on Autobiographical Acts in their book Reading Autobiography. This time, what I referred to as the “who” interests me … Continue reading
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Tagged Addressee, Anne Bradstreet, audience, Autobiographical Acts, Intent, Love, Poetry, Puritan, Reading Autobiography, Relationships, Smith and Watson
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Ann Hutchinson’s Agency
While reading the trial scripts of Ann Hutchinson, I was amazed at how obviously gendered Puritan ideologies and cultural scripts were and how the authority seems to manipulate them in order to punish a woman for being a so called … Continue reading
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Wigglesworth and Ethics
Throughout Michael Wigglesworth’s diary entries, his unfaltering devotion to Puritanism becomes apparent, primarily through his feelings of overwhelming guilt. The opening line of “Ah Lord, I am vile. I desire to abhor myself” truly sets the tone and reveals the … Continue reading
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Black-Out Conversion
In Smith and Watson’s Reading Autobiography, in their chapter about autobiographical acts, I see them frame autobiography by looking at the who, what, where, when, how and why of their creation. The who is the person to which the story … Continue reading
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Not So “Self-Reflexive about the Problem of Remembering”
I think that one of the most important of Smith and Watson’s concepts that applies to Cabeza de Vaca’s narrative of his travels in the Americas is memory. Some classmates have made the argument that his entire autobiographical account is … Continue reading
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