tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post4053273146416519102..comments2023-09-07T04:49:10.648-07:00Comments on Literature and the Contemporary: Prompt 1Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post-28031666766412912472011-03-13T10:26:29.746-07:002011-03-13T10:26:29.746-07:00It's hard to challenge your reading of the mea...It's hard to challenge your reading of the meaning of the Phoenix, and your analysis of Lauren's character, especially re: the difficulty she has extracting herself from Robledo. All of this is good, worthwhile material. Your discussion of the cyclic meaning of the Phoenix is the obviously correct one *in general* - this is what Phoenixes represent.<br /><br />Despite your detailed analysis of the difficulties Lauren has leaving, though, I do think there's a dimension that you're ignoring here.<br /><br />Remember that the Phoenix is *Lauren's* rhetoric device, in *her* verses, which *she* is seemingly using to introduce this particular chapter. So the dimension of analysis I thin is missing, or underdeveloped, is that Lauren is writing this chapter, presumably, in order to illustrate the verse about the Phoenix (that's an exaggeration, but you get the point). In other words, she's the one doing at least the initial interpretation; that dimension of the novel could use some attention here.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.com