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About Me! Writing, Pickles, and Netflix
Hey everyone! My name is Neia, I’m a 4th year arts student majoring in English Literature and minoring in Sociology. I’m from Richmond, BC and have lived in this city my whole life. Fun fact: I lived on campus for … Continue reading Continue reading
About Me! Writing, Pickles, and Netflix
Hey everyone! My name is Neia, I’m a 4th year arts student majoring in English Literature and minoring in Sociology. I’m from Richmond, BC and have lived in this city my whole life. Fun fact: I lived on campus for … Continue reading Continue reading
Rights of Man
Thomas Paine is a curious character, whose legacy is hard to assess. But perhaps this is why it is all the more important to (re)read him. His difficulties, ambiguities, and ambivalences, in the midst of the eighteenth-century “Age of Revolutions,” … Continue reading Continue reading
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey pulls off the difficult feat of being both relentlessly self-reflexive and (on the whole) a genuinely enjoyable read. It is, after all, a commentary on the writing and reading of novels, and more specifically on the … Continue reading Continue reading
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe’s classic novel Things Fall Apart (1958) is often seen as a riposte to European representations of African life and culture, not least for instance Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, which Achebe memorably described as the work of “a … Continue reading Continue reading
Antigone
It is not always entirely clear who (if anyone) or what is the tragic hero(ine) in Sophocles’s Antigone, or what exactly is the nature of their tragedy. One might have thought that the tragic figure was the eponymous Antigone herself, … Continue reading Continue reading
Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
In one of his final essays, “Analysis Terminable and Interminable” (1937), Sigmund Freud writes that “it almost looks as if analysis were the third of those ‘impossible’ professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results. The … Continue reading Continue reading
English 220 Summary of my favorite works and what I liked about the course
Hmm… I would like to talk about one piece of work in the course, but I’m not sure exactly which one, so in the aftermath of the exam, I’m going to talk about…. well the highlights. Coming into English 220 … Continue reading Continue reading
English 220 Summary of my favorite works and what I liked about the course
Hmm… I would like to talk about one piece of work in the course, but I’m not sure exactly which one, so in the aftermath of the exam, I’m going to talk about…. well the highlights. Coming into English 220 … Continue reading Continue reading
Oronooko… staged so that it really hits you when you least expect it.
My feelings for Oronooko is hard to pinpoint. At first glance I thought it was a tragedy set in the scenes of the age of European Empires. I did notice its critique on the crime of slavery, and frankly I … Continue reading Continue reading
