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Is Benjamin Franklin a Puritan?

No.  But from Puritan autobiography to Benjamin Franklin, there is a noticeable change in what Watson and Smith call the ideological “I”.  In Reading Autdbiography, they define the ideological “I” as the “mobile positionalities of the ‘I’” or in other … Continue reading

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The Ideological I – How a Changing Cabeza Changes God

In Reading Autobiography, Smith and Watson discuss the “Ideological I” in a way that illuminates the competition between Cabeza de Vaca’s religious/social/political beliefs and his diminishing likelihood of survival in the first ten chapters of his narrative. Smith and Watson … Continue reading

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