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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Friday Apr 19, 2019
Friday Apr 19, 2019
A kind of culmination of the material on maguffins, loss aversion, and the management of longing. The sunk costs of antes. The symbolic value of the last cigarette before you quit. That last cigarette being a kind of maguffin which allows for making it satisfy both the desire to smoke and the desire to quit.
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