The Illusion of Liberation in Babylon

Buckle up, y’all. We’ve got a beefy one for you today! We’re tackling Babylon from Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore. I think we all knew this one would give Uncle Jerry plenty to think about and chew on and teach from, and he did not disappoint. Maybe grab your breakfast or dinner and a nice beverage and get comfy, because this is our longest episode yet.

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Works Cited:
The Autobiography of Red – Anne Carson
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Angela’s Reaction Video – The Encore (youtube.com/watch?v=5PvSdNoPbxU)
Professing Literature: An Institutional History – Gerald Graff
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*Bookshop.org (bookshop.org/a/113665/9780226305592)
Ancient Babylon (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon)
What Does "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin" Mean? (zondervanacademic.com/blog/mene-mene-tekel-par…)
Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley (poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias)
Babylon (2022) (imdb.com/title/tt10640346)
Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory (huntingthemuse.net/library/hemingways-iceberg-…)
Wild Things (1998) (imdb.com/title/tt0120890/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt…)
Where The Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
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*Bookshop.org (bookshop.org/a/113665/9780060254926)
Wild Thing – The Troggs (youtube.com/watch?v=gSWInYFVksg)
The Libertine (2004) (imdb.com/title/tt0375920)
Onomatopoeia (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/onomat…)
Metonymy (poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/metonymy)
Logos, Pathos, Ethos (lsu.edu/hss/english/files/university_writing_f…)
Dramatic Irony (britannica.com/art/dramatic-irony)
Miniver Cheevy – Edwin Arlington Robinson (poets.org/poem/miniver-cheevy)
The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix (docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fnP9Eoffzj1LWv…)

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