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Turnouts to the Tuesday night gatherings have been respectable--about ten people show up every week. And lest you think that real men don't knit, just let David Ellison demonstrate his killer cable stitch. Ellison, a resident tutor at Mather, learned the ancient art from two women associates at a consulting firm 8 years...
According to Ellison, knitting actually started out as an activity dominated by men--fishermen, to be exact, who had to knit sweaters in order to keep warm in the winter...
...Ellison makes no bones about his hobby--"I bring my knitting to tutor meetings and group discussions...
...novelists Thomas Pynchon, Donald Barthelme and Robert Coover. The result of this comparison is to redefine the origins of the fragmentation of the subject that is generally seen as characteristic of literary postmodernity. The "marginal" writers chosen Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anaïs Nin, Djuna Barnes, Gwendolyn Brooks and Ralph Ellison-present a rather motley collection. When I spoke to Harper, and Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Languages and Afro-American Studies here at Harvard, earlier this week, he explained that the subjects of his analysis had indeed been cosen 'without rhyme or reason." "These authors compelled...
...material. The woks discussed are not schematized into a definition of marginally; rather, they represent a sample of the richness of various traditions: "We could conceive of (Anaïs Nin and Djuna Bares) as minor in the sense that they are experimental... but in the case of Ellison, The Invisible Man is standardly seen as a major work in the minor tradition, that it say that its minorities does drive from the social minority of Ellison himself." By tracing evidence of what he terms "psychic fragmentation" through the work of these diverse writers and into the dominant contemporary literary...