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Introduction: Teaching Beauty

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In the sky outside an English department office at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., a white blimp suddenly appears.1 It’s a clear early autumn afternoon, and the professor in the office puts aside her lecture notes for the modern novel class she’s preparing and gazes at the thing at her window. What does it mean?

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© 2008 Jennifer Green-Lewis and Margaret Soltan

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Green-Lewis, J., Soltan, M. (2008). Introduction: Teaching Beauty. In: Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230612136_1

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