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That’s All for Now, Folks!
As a finish my last take-home test of the semester, I am breathing a huge sigh of relief. It feels amazing to have made it through another year, but it also seems unreal that I am halfway done with my college career. This semester was a challenge, to say the least. However, for the first [...]
The end of a long semester
This is my final blog post (if I have counted correctly and I sure hope I counted correctly) and I have mixed emotions about the class ending. While I am ready for new adventures in new classes I can’t help but feel that there is still so much I could learn. More theories of writing, [...]
Literary Theory and Life
I do not have really any plans for the future. I have few specific dreams, but one of my dreams is to write a screenplay; if I take this dream one step further, I would want to win an academy award for best original screenplay. One does not need a college education to write a [...]
The Heart of the Matter
One of the enlightening concepts Literary Theory and college courses in general have taught me about my writing, is that there are so many different modes of writing and to be an efficient communicator, you have to dabble in each one; you have to learn the rules of each game. Poetry and creative writing, close readings, [...]
Summer Reads
As we near these last grueling days of the semester, which will be consumed of nothing but staying up late to cram for our exams [I just rhymed there], I post this week with the intent to discover what will be on everyone’s “summer reading lists.” Perhaps for some of you a summer reading list [...]
More on Revision
When reading Leah’s post this morning, it struck me that I shared some of her feelings. The writing for this class has definitely been challenging and time consuming, and I am getting more than I ever could have expected to get out of the revision process. That being said, there are some areas that could [...]
Jesus Did What, Now?
I would say the best thing about Mark Twain’s writing is his dry sense of humor. As a class, we briefly discussed irony (isn’t it ironic that Alanis Morissette is not ironic?) but we have not talked about literary humor in-depth. I am sure it is something worth considering, but perhaps only on a minimal [...]
Peer-Reviews
On Wednesday I had the lovely honor time of having my papers critiqued. While no one likes to know what they are doing wrong, it was very beneficial for me to better understand what I am doing right and what I still need to work on. I am very critical of my own work because [...]
Final Thoughts on Ethical Criticism and the Like…
Thank you guys so much for an incredible class on Wednesday! I thought it went well and I’m glad it got you all thinking about the relationship between texts and readers, as well as texts and ethics. When I was starting on my quest for something to talk about, it was quite daunting and I [...]
Transitioning from Books to Life
After reading a few blog posts, particularly Seve’s “Underlying Lessons in Fairytales,” I revisited Wayne C. Booth’s The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction because I’m still curious about what it means to apply ethical criticism to literature. The questions of whether or not a fairytale is required to have a moral led me [...]
