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Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Moby-Dick
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Call me Shmoop...er, we mean, Ishmael. It’s time to catch a whale. ...Just kidding, we’ll read about it instead. The WWF told us we can’t d...

Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: What is Southern Gothic?
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Ready for a horror story that isn’t about a bad hair day? Pick up a Southern Gothic novel like Moby-Dick or As I Lay Dying instead. Though now th...

Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Writer's Inspiration
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Add half a cup of post-Civil War, a pinch of Reconstruction, a cup full of race issues, toss it in a Crock Pot called “The South,” and you’ve...

Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Wuthering Heights
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Ugh, John is just like Catherine from Wuthering Heights, always thinking he’s so much better than we are. All he’s missing is a house on a spoo...

Southern Gothic, Kafka and Moby-Dick: Music
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Ah, Southern Gothic music...songs about trucks, fishing, and jeans that are scary, slow, sad, and sometimes funny. Always a crowd-pleasing genre.

Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Stream of Consciousness
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It’s time to become mind readers and get into the heads of stream of consciousness writers, and order some chicken for Tuesday, because last week...

Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Symbols and Themes
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What does the white whale symbolize? For us, it’s chocolate cake. Why? Probably because we’re hungry so everything is symbolizing chocolate cak...

Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: The Metamorphosis
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Ever wake up to find that you’ve transformed into a giant bug? Just say, “I woke up like this,” and post a picture on Instagram. Works every...

Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Kafkaesque
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What’s our place in the universe? Sometimes, we find ourselves looking at the sky, pondering where we belong. Then, a voice softly whispers, “i...

Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Characters and Keywords
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What is hubris? What is cetology? What is foreshadowing? What is transcendentalism? What is a monomaniac? What is apotheosis? Who are all these cha...