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Author: Andrea Abi-Karam

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Poetry vs. Prose: Christopher Ricks’ Perspective

November 9, 2009March 17, 2010 - by Andrea Abi-Karam - Leave a Comment

Prose A. n. 1. a. Language in the form in which it is typically written (or spoken), usually characterized as having no deliberate metrical structure. Poetry a. Composition in verse …

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Memory and Modernism

October 29, 2009October 29, 2009 - by Andrea Abi-Karam - Leave a Comment

Memory lets us remember what we have read, even this sentence for example. It also helps us with the act of reading, and all of the places the mind seems …

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A Day of Expression: National Writing Day

October 22, 2009October 22, 2009 - by Andrea Abi-Karam - Leave a Comment

As I wandered into the GSU on Tuesday I was overcome by magnetic poetry. A large board was full of eccentric phrases that BU’s best passerby poets had put up. …

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Socialism and Survival Make a Deadly Cocktail

October 13, 2009October 14, 2009 - by Andrea Abi-Karam - Leave a Comment

Koushan Takami’s Battle Royale series tests the limits of human compassion and selfishness. Japan as a national socialist state isolates fifty classes of junior high third years and send them …

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Fangs Reveal More About Human Nature Than Blood

October 5, 2009October 5, 2009 - by Andrea Abi-Karam - Leave a Comment

Andrea Abi-Karam discusses why it’s so sexy when vampires are out for late-night snack.

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Timing the Choke

October 4, 2009October 6, 2009 - by Andrea Abi-Karam - Leave a Comment

The modern (or post-post-modern or contemporary or whatever you want to call it) novel seems to live in the fourth dimension: time. Ever since Faulkner, authors cannot keep their chronology …

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