Assignment #2-Jo Ann Callis
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Exercise 2
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By using Google images or by clicking on the links I’ve provided, search for works by the contemporary visual artists listed below, all of whom make use of the surreal in their work. Identify a single image from which you will create a story no longer than three double-spaced pages. Penelope Slinger Shannon Bool Jo Ann […]
“Reeling for the Empire” by Karen Russell
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Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose. In “Reeling for the Empire,” it follows Kitsune who is one of many girls captured and forced to have their bodies change in order to produce silk from their bodies. This short story is extremely fantastical, creating these creatures that are […]
Shadow Archetype in Steven Millhauser’s “The Disappearance of Elaine Coleman”
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It was as if none of us had ever looked at her, or had looked at her while thinking of something more interesting. I felt that we were guilty of some obscure crime. For it seemed to me that we who had seen her now and then out of the corner of our eyes, […]
Russell, “Reeling for the Empire”
Posted in Karen Russell on Sep 5th, 2017
First, the silkworms stop eating. Then they spin their cocoons. Once inside, they molt several times. They grow wings and teeth. If the caterpillars are allowed to evolve, they change into moths. Then these moths bite through the silk and fly off, ruining it for the market. This quote is the turning point in the […]
Karen Russell, “Reeling for the Empire”
Posted in Karen Russell on Sep 5th, 2017
I’ve spent the past few months convinced that we were still identifiable as girls, women – no beauty queens, certainly, shaggy and white and misshapen, but at least half human; it’s only now, watching the Agent’s reaction, that I realize what we’ve become in his absence. I see us as he must: white faces, with sunken noses […]
Steven Millhauser’s “The Disappearance of Elaine Coleman”
Posted in Steven Millhauser on Sep 5th, 2017
For we are no longer innocent, we who do not see and do not remember, we incurious ones, we conspirators in disappearance. I too murdered Elaine Coleman. Let this account be entered in the record. Honestly, I just love this as an ending sentence. Throughout the whole story we see the narrator struggling to remember […]