22 February 2017: "Things got weird." --one of my more reticent students sharing his response to Steven Millhauser's terrific story "In the Reign of Harad IV."
I love teaching this piece every semester in ENGL 301 as it unfolds itself so well for a New Critical or Reader Response interpretation (which is where we are at this point in the semester). A piece that works for these two very different lenses is just a delight. But the real delight in this piece (for me) is the entire concept of a master artisan making increasingly tiny miniatures. We had a lot of fun talking about why we are drawn to intricate miniatures, which led to students telling me about "tiny food." I had no idea and now I am a bit obsessed.
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