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...alone life, the singular self does matter. Trying to make a Jersey boy who shares Roth's cultural background and birth year (1933) into an archetype, effacing his individuality, inhibits the reader from feeling the protagonist's loss emotionally, rather than just intellectually. (And denying him a name creates pronoun confusion whenever "he" talks to another man.) That Everyman's hero dies is universal. How he dies is not: he is alone, isolated from his brother, sons and ex-wives because of his traits and choices--often selfish, childish ones--but Roth has sketched his story in broad terms that...
...spirit disguised in a human body,” Glück told the audience. She recounted that, when a translator asked her which gender she would prefer to be used in a Polish version of her poems, she answered: “Whatever makes the best of the pronoun, so that pronoun speaks to a human experience, not to a female experience...
Caving willingly to pressure, Wesleyan College’s imprimatur has been accorded to a group that wants to educate professors and incoming freshmen on the use of the transgendered pronoun “ze” and its possessive...
With the advent of a transgender alternative, English speakers find themselves in a grammatical conundrum. When pronouns like “he” and “her” no longer suffice, a person can only shy warily away from the shudder-inducing “it” and mumble inaudibly. Has political correctness finally exhausted the capacities of the English language? Wesleyan University has turned to a gender-neutral alternative: “ze.” “Students use it to refer to people who have requested it as their pronoun...
...book’s beginning there is a note on Cummings’ peculiar capitalization practices, explaining that as “a small eye poet” he objected to his name and the pronoun “I” being capitalized in poetry, but not in personal correspondence...