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September 16, 2011Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 17: The Huxtable Narrative as Renaissance Political Allegory or Claire Huxtable’s Machiavellianism and Theo’s Lutheranism
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August 1, 2011Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 16:
Thus Spake Cliff Huxtable: The Ever Nietzschian Cliff Huxtable or Some Thoughts On Cliff Huxtable as Übermensch -
July 14, 2011Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 15: The Huxtables and the Unknowable: Incommensurabilities and the Unknown in the Huxtable Narrative
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June 17, 2011Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 14: Part Two of Toward a Conception of Blakian Prophetic Mythology in (and through) the Huxtable Narrative: The Many Worlds (and Multiple Histories) of Bill Cosby and the Quantum Suicide of Cliff Huxtable.
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May 31, 2011Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 13: The Huxtables and the Disaster(s) of Olivia Kendall or Toward a Conception of Blakian Prophetic Mythology in (and Through) the Huxtable Narrative. PART ONE
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May 16, 2011Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 12: Chaos, Psychonautics and Discordianism in the Huxtable Narrative: Russell, Cliff and Rudy Huxtable as Psychonauts and Chaos Magicians
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April 25, 2011Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 11: Exit (and Enter) Author: Jeffrey Engles, The Death of the Author,M What is an Author? and the Postmodern Castration of the Author Figure in the Huxtable Narrative
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April 5, 2011Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 10: Conspiracy, Paranoia and Simulacra in the Huxtable Narrative or the Crying of 10 Stigwood Avenue
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March 17, 2011Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 9: Yet another Interlude: The Huxtables and the Failures of the 1960s; Modernist Impressionism, Rorschach and Cliff’s Sweaters; and the (((im))possible) Confessions of an African-American Opium Eater
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February 28, 2011Selections From the Cosby Codex: Selection 8: Contemporary American Political and Social Allegory in The Cosby Show or How Cliff Huxtable Learned to Suffer and Long for the Bomb
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September 8, 2023My Saturday Self Versus My Sunday Self
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September 11, 2023Welcoming Remarks Made at a Literary Reading, 9/25/01
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