Monday, May 10, 2010

Henry James' "Daisy Miller." A Reinactment

Author's Preface:

So here we see how Guerrilla Literacy began: In an American Literature II lecture hall being bored out of my life's breath.

Henry James' Daisy Miller: A Study is a 19th century novella of a man with an idiocy-disorder that follows a woman halfway around Europe, only to be spurned again. The major theme is developed through the man pondering why the woman (an American) is nothing like other American women, and absolutely nothing like European women. Really, the comic (though stick-figural as it is) sums up the only action of the story quite well.

 

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