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Goo All Over Me: Dirty Metaphors from the Vault
In the metaphors and similes in You All Over Me, Taylor Swift paints an increasingly grim series of portraits of herself after a breakup.
Missed Connections and Crossed Wires: Communication Breakdowns in Stay Beautiful
"Despite providing five examples of failed communication, the overall tone of Stay Beautiful is hopeful. While Tied Together with a Smile left us spiraling into an epistemological crisis, Stay Beautiful suggests that there are truths that transcend communication — such as beauty. Further, while the truth of beauty is impenetrable to Cory now, it is not permanently so. Cory will stay beautiful, and if he learns to become an active seeker of knowledge, he will become aware of t
A Penny for your Thoughts: Epistemology of the Self in Tied Together with a Smile
"Tied Together with a Smile thus demonstrates how a lack of self-knowledge can have a cascading effect, setting into motion an epistemological crisis in which no one else can know that self either. "
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Diogenes the Dragon: Battling Cynicism in Long Live
We know from Swift’s later work that she was a noted scholar of Greek philosophy during this era of her life “You know how to ball / I know Aristotle” (So High School). It is thus worth digging into Swift name dropping a group of people who were deeply upset by her success – the world-denying philosophers known as the Cynics.
Saint Stephen I just wrote you a paean: Signifier and signified in Hey Stephen
Swift, a philosopher of language, explores the relationship between a name and what it signifies by fully exploring the meaning of 'Stephen'
Swift's Theology of Noise Music in Our Song
In Our Song, noted music theorist Taylor Swift grapples with the question “What is Music?”
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