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This week’s reading was challenging for me to understand. The main concept I gravitated towards during “Combray” is his multifaceted relationship and/or reliance on his mother. This is what I want to further unpack (from my understanding) and question in my blog post this week. Marcel spends a lot of time reflecting on his past […] read full post >>

This week’s reading was a bit difficult for me to fully understand the message around the story. For my blog post this week, I decided to focus in on the message surrounding the authors desire for affection from his mother, and memories. A big theme for the story was the idea of memories. Proust touches …

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The first thing that stood out to me was the ‘invalid at midnight’. He is excited because he thinks he sees the light, that his ‘journey’ is over, but it is the servants turning off the lantern, and he will have to suffer the whole night. At first, I thought this had religious undertones, but […] read full post >>

Hello all, My name is Suroor Mansouri and I am a Psychology major in my third year, trying to cover avenues outside the scientific and neurological domains of my field. I have been taking numerous creative writing and literature classes to study how moods, themes, and senses that we study in psychology intertwine in prose. […] read full post >>

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When reading the "combray" part, I clearly understood the author's unique writing style and thus recorded some of my insights into the author's articles.The author takes his thoughts as the central point and combines his feelings and vague associations... read full post >>

When reading the "combray" part, I clearly understood the author's unique writing style and thus recorded some of my insights into the author's articles.The author takes his thoughts as the central point and combines his feelings and vague associations... read full post >>

My initial observation of ‘Combray’ included the overwhelming amount of detail the narrator uses to describe his feelings and his surroundings. I did not particularly enjoy such attention to detail, as the narrator’s descriptive language at specific parts of the novel did not seem pertinent. However, such vivid descriptions seemingly indicate the observant and perceptive […] read full post >>

Hello Everyone, Reading Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust reminded me greatly of Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I had to read the Notes from the Underground for a philosophy class; as challenging as it was, the moment I finally understood it, (though I feel that I could read it an endless amount of […] read full post >>

My name is Sam Wallace. I was born in North York, Ontario, but moved to what my parents affectionately refer to as the “wild west” long before my earliest memories. In school, I always wanted to major in English. I wrote a short story in second grade which my teacher went on to include in […] read full post >>