ENCW 202 Spring 2022
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2022
Steven Millhauser’s “A Change in Fashion” and “A Precursor of The Cinema” are two stories about art; they explore notions of art and literature and the relationship between artist and creation, creation and viewer, artist and viewer. In “A Change in Fashion” a shift in designer trends contributes to the ever concealing and expanding creation […]
Posted in Disappearance, Documentary, Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2022
“A precursor of the Cinema” follows the life and art of Harlan Crane. Harlan was known to have the most detailed art of all the other artist, to the point of that a magnifying glass. In all phases of his art, his pieces have been known to be lifelike that they moved. While observing Still Life […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2022
This week I decided to read “A Change In Fashion” by Steven Millhauser. The story seems to discuss the trends in fashion that are taking place in this world, but it also goes much more deeper than that. There is a new trend of clothing that is gaining a lot of attention when it comes […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2022
In “A Change in Fashion” dresses kept being design not for wear but for art. Women used to wear long dresses that fitted their body but that all changed when a designer made hoop dresses. He made dresses that were bold in design and covered the women’s body from head to toe. The only part […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2022
“The vast, enclosing composition seemed at first to be painted entirely black, but slowly other colors became visible, deep browns and blackish reds, while vague shapes began to emerge.” Steven Millhauser’s ability to craft the wonderment of the impossible through possible ways produces a narrative that reflects feasible realities, fabricating a sense of uneasiness and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2022
“A Change in Fashion” by Steven Millhauser features, as usual for Millhauser, a wild concept that is obsessed over. In this case, it is a new form of women’s fashion that creates the Age of Concealment. Women start to wear large clothes that erase their forms underneath, making it impossible to determine what they look […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2022
‘A Change in Fashion’ by Steven Millhauser takes the reader to the common issue of fashion. There are always times in which fashion seems to cross the line between fashion and nonsensical clash of fabrics, and Steven Millhauser seems to emphasize that concept. Fashion is a continuously changing concept that can change from generation to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2022
“A Change In Fashion” by Steven Millhauser once again made use of a collective third person narrator that describes things much like a documentary. The focus of this story was on fashion, and how it seems to change drastically over time. Fashion trends come and go throughout the decades, and often times certain trends come […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2022
“A Change in Fashion” by Steven Millhauser was a humorous composition that dramatized the ever-changing style of clothing. This was not an easy piece to read at first, and I became confused on several occasions. Due to my lack of knowledge about Elizabethan fashion, it was hard for me to picture the dresses he described. The […]
Posted in Women on Mar 30th, 2022
One thing Steven Millhauser is good at is taking the ordinary in our lives and spinning it on its head. “A Change in Fashion” takes the natural changes that happen in fashion. Women start dressing in more and more layers and covering up more. “It was as if, after half a century of reckless exposure, […]
Posted in Obsession on Mar 29th, 2022
“The Other Town” by Steven Millhauser tells the story of a town which, for some reason, has an exact replica of itself on the other side of the woods. Members of the original town can visit the other town for recreational purposes and can access any part of it, including the inside of any house, […]
Posted in Duplication on Mar 28th, 2022
I think that “The Other Town” was written to remind us of how scarily accurate technology has advanced, and to remind us to appreciate what is real. In “The Other Town,” it mentions how realistic the replicated items are, such as with the exact patterns of glass and the growth patterns of flowers. This story […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 24th, 2022
This story follows the Buendia’s and their many family members. It is a blend of both realism and the fantastic while also showing the darkness of colonialism. It also shows themes of the Bible like Adam and Eve Before the Gypsy’s came to Macondo the town was full of three hundred people that all lived […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 24th, 2022
This book was hard to understand. From what I can piece together, this one family has seen multiply deaths and tragedies in a short lifetime. All the men had the same names, Jose Arcadio or Aureliano. I had to reread few sections just to know which was speaking or who the action was happening to. […]
Posted in Incest, One Hundred Years of Solitude on Mar 24th, 2022
Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses magical surrealism throughout his works to explore interpersonal relationships, societal structures, and norms and to analyze the intermingling of human nature and constructed rules. One Hundred Years Of Solitude delves into familial relations within the realm of family life as well as the implications beyond familial bounds. Macondo, a “city built of mirrors,” […]
Posted in One Hundred Years of Solitude on Mar 24th, 2022
The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez has become a classic staple in literature and for good reason. The novel has so many complex layers with many different and complex characters (the majority of whom, for some reason, have the same name). There are so many unique things that intrigue me about this […]
Posted in Curses, One Hundred Years of Solitude on Mar 24th, 2022
100 Years of Solitude is a story about the Buendía family, whose patriarch founded the town of Macondo and whose line has been condemned to “one hundred years of solitude.” The curse spans from the original marriage of the family’s patriarch, Jose Arcadio Buendía, to Ursula Iguaran, his first cousin. The “curse” is multifaceted, manifesting […]
Posted in Curses, Incest, Isolation, One Hundred Years of Solitude on Mar 23rd, 2022
Cien Años de Soledad or One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends the fantastical with realism to tell the story of one family’s misery. After Macando is founded by José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán it spans over seven generations of Buendías before the town is destroyed and scoured from the earth. […]
Posted in One Hundred Years of Solitude on Mar 23rd, 2022
Gabriel Garca Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a historical novel about the secluded town of Macando. It also focuses on the Buendias, the family that established the town. Only when visiting gypsies came into town did they have any contact with the outside world. The arrival of the gypsies brought with them new […]
Posted in One Hundred Years of Solitude on Mar 22nd, 2022
“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude has etched its way into […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2022
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez is a novel of both changes and constants over the many decades that pass between the first page and the last. There are obviously many changes throughout the story as time progresses, especially since this book covers such a large period of time. The reader witnesses […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2022
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a story in which realism and magical events happen to the family Buendia. The story follows seven generations of the Buendia family, the founders of Macondo, and their origins as well as their troubles. The story spans over the generations with a large number of characters, most […]
Posted in Exploitation, Religion on Mar 19th, 2022
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is a story in which an old angel (lacking the superficial, ethereal form one may expect from an angel) is found by a couple. The couple seeks explanation for the angel from a local mystic, as well as their town priest. In the meantime, the couple confines and […]
Posted in Angels on Mar 19th, 2022
I read “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as a heartbreaking metaphor for how the world treats good, innocent people badly. Pelayo and Elisenda encounter a filthy, yet harmless, old man by their home and come to the conclusion that he is an angel. They react cruelly by locking him […]
Posted in One Hundred Years of Solitude on Mar 17th, 2022
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez is so packed full of strange happenings, a few of which are very similar to other stories we have read in the class, such as The Memory Police and “The Great Awake.” In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Rebeca brings insomnia to Macondo, which over time causes memory loss. Eventually everyone begins […]
Posted in Insomnia, One Hundred Years of Solitude on Mar 17th, 2022
Chapters 1-3 in One Hundred Years of Solitudes reminded me of several stories we have read throughout the year. It shared common themes and elements with The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa and “The Great Awake” by Julia Armfield. I’m reminded of these two stories because of the plague that is brought to the town: Insomnia. In this story insomnia is […]
Posted in Incest, Isolation, One Hundred Years of Solitude on Mar 16th, 2022
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude follows the Buendía family and the town of Macondo, which was founded by their patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía. The family and the town that they founded are plagued by supernatural occurrences and technological advancement, the differences between which are sometimes confused, such as with the introduction of ice […]
Posted in Exploitation on Mar 16th, 2022
In Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s “The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings,” a couple, Pelayo and Elisenda, find an old man with massive buzzard-like wings in their yard around the time of their child’s birth. Despite his haggard appearance, their neighbor deduces that he is an angel who was sent to collect their ill child but was so […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 15th, 2022
This week I chose to write about the short story “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”. This story was one of the shorter story we have read with it only being 5 pages long. The story begins with crabs (which was a bit unusual for me) and how they are becoming a bit of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 15th, 2022
“Salt Slow” is set in a post-apocalyptic future where incessant storms have inundated the land. A man and a woman are aboard a ship, and the lady is expecting a child. She reflects on their connection prior to the disaster and sees how the world has transformed, but rather how much her companion has changed. […]