Posts tagged Pedro Páramo
Cameron's Book Round-Up: Late April, Early May 2023
Cameron's Book Round-Up: Late April, Early May 2023

Included in here is a wider variety of books than I normally read, because we have two novels that I read for the literature class I taught this past semester. Teaching literature is really different from teaching composition, and while I’d gladly do both going forward, I definitely need more practice as a literature teacher.

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Written by: Cameron, Book reviewsCameron SummersHav, Jan Morris, Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone, Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson, The Destroyer of Worlds, Matt Ruff, R.F. Kuang, Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence, The Shining, Stephen King, Leech, Hiron Ennes, Binti, Nnedi Okorafor, The Dead Zone, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow, Margaret Killjoy, The Good House, Tananarive DueComment
A Spectrum of Haunting
A Spectrum of Haunting

Rereading it in preparation for the class, I was struck by a simple but surprisingly deep question: what does it mean for something to be haunted? Not on the surface, but as part of a deeper cultural question. What does it make sense to think of as being haunted?

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Literary Theory, Written by: CameronCameron SummersThe Hauntological, The Eerie, horror, skinamarink, Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo, Stefan Grabiński, Public Access (RPG), Guillermo del Toro, Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, Boston Dynamics, Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie, Nostalgia, Johan Huizinga, House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski, Control (2019), The Mars Volta Comment