Blog Archive for March, 2012
Queer Theory: Typee and Glee
After our class on Friday about Queer Theory and Typee I became curious about other places I could apply this criticism to. As I thought about it I realized that despite our world today being “modern” and “progressive” there isn’t too many places in media where we find the LGBT community prominently represented. The first [...]
Blog spin-off! Further queer theory applications to Typee and Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight
In Tara Lovdahl’s post “Melville on Team Edward?” she paralleled Twilight‘s characters and plot to Typee. I would like to focus on the infamous feud between werewolves and vampires and how it is similar to the disinclination between Westerners and the tribes of the Marquesas, and consequently how these hostilities emulate prejudices in Western culture against [...]
Lost vs Typee
Okay! So as I was reading Typee I got this very weird Dejavu like I had seen or read this story somewhere. Upon much deliberation, I came to the conclusion that my favorite show is inherently a comment on Typee: Lost! I wanted to use my post for this week to exemplify the qualities that [...]
Melville on Team Edward?
On my last blog I talked about homoerotic tension in Melville’s novella Typee. One of my colleagues, Ms. Scott, identified the concept I was describing but could not name (Sedgwickian Triangle) and applied it to a well-known contemporary novel (and film) series: Twilight. At first, I chuckled. Even though her literary connection to this homoerotic [...]
“The Host”, a different kind of trailer
I recently saw a teaser trailer for “The Host” which was a book that I really enjoyed, and am excited to see translated into film. I noticed that the trailer got me very excited for the film but was very different from the trailers we watched in class. The trailer contains no footage of the [...]
The Effectiveness of Movie Trailers
Last week, I found our lecture in Cofrin lab particularly stimulating, not just because I have a certain soft spot for film, but also how interesting it is to note the thought that goes into the trailers we watch to entice us to watch movies. Before Cordell’s thorough examination of film trailers and the effects [...]
Looking Back
Most people continue to post about the things they have learned, hope to learn or are currently learning. I want to take the time to reflect on the adventure that Literary Theory has brought my way so far. Most of the readings in Craft and Texts have been extremely beneficial and really put a different [...]
New Historicism and Gulliver’s Travels
I’m not sure about anyone else, but throughout this semester I keep thinking of good works of literature to write my papers on and help me understand criticisms well after my paper is due. It happened to me again when we started discussing New Historicism. I was brought back to last semester, when I read [...]
Nicole Dunbar: Meta-Post
In my past blog posts, I’ve mostly talked about our in-class discussions. I consider how other people reacted to reading a certain work, as well as my personal feelings toward the work. I think that over the course of blogging, I’ve seen a slight move from a discussion of my personal feelings to a more [...]
Connections!
In my British Novels class we have just finished reading and discussing perhaps the most famous dystopian novel of all time: 1984 by George Orwell. I found the concepts in this novel very interesting: the destruction of language, control of thought, the communist oligarchy, etc. The aspect that hit me the hardest was Room 101. [...]
