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in defense of Conrad, the racist and mysoginist? i know, i was surprised too.
after reading and discussing Conrad and HoD for the second time in my academic career, I have resolved that at least at this point in time I am a fan. I do not see Conrad or HoD as fundamentally racist … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Things Could Fall Together Better
So today’s lecture was about Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, but really it just felt like a lot about the issue of racism between Conrad and Achebe. Now I’m not complaining. I think it’s an interesting topic, and one I focused … Continue reading → Continue reading →
things are indeed falling apart
soooo my thoughts are things fall apart are rather surface level, i apologize. with a novel like this it takes me a little to process exactly whats happening and the lecture today left me thinking even more about the book! … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Remake;Remodel
The closer we get to the end the more I find myself appreciating the Stream B theme. Everything is starting to tie all together, and I believe I am making more sense out of everything we have read so far. In retrospect, the past things we have read have more importance and significance. I greatly […] Continue reading →
Things Fall Apart
I am not afraid to admit that I am not a fan of Heart of Darkness. I respect that it is a well-written work that was quite pivotal in its time, but it is just not the style of literature that I enjoy reading and/or analyzing. In my high school English class we read Heart […] Continue reading →
The shape of things falling apart
I’m participating in the open online digital storytelling course called DS106, which is happening on a shortened, 7 week schedule until about mid-May. For the first week, we were asked (among other things that I didn’t have time to do because I’m still teaching right now) to think about the shapes of stories. Two things […] Continue reading →
Post Seminar Thought
Well actually I had an underdeveloped version of this thought during seminar, but I wasn’t really sure of what I was trying to say. I got it while waiting for the bus though and I thought I’d just post it. In response to Andrew’s question about motifs such as light and dark and the blurriness […] Continue reading →
Things really are falling apart
so since I epically suck at the portion of this course that is worth the biggest percentage, I thought it would be appropriate to assure that the portion that is worth the least is always done on time and such, … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Coming to the end…
YES! any who, I was looking at the lists of prompts that were given for Beauvoir and Conrad and number five instantly grabbed me “is Marlowe racist” I didn’t realize we would have the option of writing about Christopher Marlowe, … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Realizing one’s Heart of Darkness
I thoroughly enjoyed monday’s lecture since it put a new view—an existentialist one—onto Heart of Darkness (HOD), instead of the one I was shown in high school originally, relying on light/dark symbolism, race relations (of course, that’s impossible to avoid), etc. … Continue reading → Continue reading →
