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Article: "Why don't you just leave it up to nature?": an adaptationist reading of the novels of Jeffrey Eugenides.(Critical essay)
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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As parables of human nature, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex act as a duet of adaptationist behaviour in which Detroit--arguably one of the hubs of the American Dream--operates as the fulcrum and the events of August 1974--the apex of the Watergate crisis--function as the lever.
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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top--or on
the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a
sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. [...] Life
is one crisis after another.--President Richard M. Nixon
In The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides establishes a spatiotemporal ...
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