The Illusion of Liberation in Babylon

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

Professing Literature: An Institutional History – Gerald Graff

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Ancient Babylon

What Does "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin" Mean?

Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Babylon (2022)

Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory

Wild Things (1998)

Where The Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak

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Wild Thing – The Troggs

The Libertine (2004)

Onomatopoeia

Metonymy

Logos, Pathos, Ethos

Dramatic Irony

Miniver Cheevy – Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix


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