"why Democracy is sexy"
is what professor flatley included in the revised syllabus for our survey of american literature class. i finished reading Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides (the guy who also wrote the book The Virgin Suicides) and i love it. it was the first book in a long time that i've read that i couldn't stop reading for hours at a time.
we're reading on "The erotics of the American self; or why Democracy is sexy" so we're reading "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman and "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg as a supplemental reading. he told us to pick out our favorite passage in "Song of Myself" that seems to be about masturbation b/c he said the poem is loaded with references to sex and homosexuality and democracy (not in the institutionalized or "civilized" sense but rather in its principles, values, its core, etc.)
by Jeffrey Eugenides (the guy who also wrote the book The Virgin Suicides) and i love it. it was the first book in a long time that i've read that i couldn't stop reading for hours at a time.
we're reading on "The erotics of the American self; or why Democracy is sexy" so we're reading "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman and "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg as a supplemental reading. he told us to pick out our favorite passage in "Song of Myself" that seems to be about masturbation b/c he said the poem is loaded with references to sex and homosexuality and democracy (not in the institutionalized or "civilized" sense but rather in its principles, values, its core, etc.)