zombie apocalypses are already happening… and have been for quite awhile apparently
I, unfortunately, am also included in the “zombies” because I completely blanked out and just remembered I have a blog post due today. Well technically yesterday. Whoops. Northanger Abbey is interesting, and I got into it right at the beginning … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Love is all good… right? A note on Northanger Abbey
First of all, I am a huge Jane Austen fan. Even though today in lecture I found out she was not the NICEST person….. I don’t care. Her writing, (as quotes by somebody I do not recall in the lecture … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Maybe Jane Austen doesn’t need to die in a dark, dank hole.
So here is my first literary blogpost of the year and I think this is a good book/reading to start with. this is not my first time around the Austen rodeo. In the past I have read Sense and Sensibility, … Continue reading → Continue reading →
A Note on Romanticism
I think English Romanticism has to be my favourite period of English Literature. Though Wordsworth and Coleridge have written wonderful works of literature I have to admit, they aren’t my favourites. It would have to be Thomas Grey, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. I know I should be writing my blog post about Lyrical […] Continue reading →
When Will my Reflection Show.
Some people may be shocked by my openness with making my reflection a blog post but..YOLO 1. I think my biggest improvement this term has been meshing my own unique voice and a more analytically and academic style of writing. … Continue reading → Continue reading →
When Will my Reflection Show.
Some people may be shocked by my openness with making my reflection a blog post but..YOLO 1. I think my biggest improvement this term has been meshing my own unique voice and a more analytically and academic style of writing. … Continue reading → Continue reading →
A Note on the Kingdom of This World
Well, I haven’t made an actual blog post in a very long time, but here it is. A Note on the Kingdom of This World. I should have written this post in the beginning of last week but I have been thinking about it for a while now, and I think my opinion on it […] Continue reading →
A Note
XVII. MEDITATION. PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I […] Continue reading →
Better Late Than Never? (Post on Cesaire & Kingdom of This World)
For this blog post, I will comment on not only Kingdom of This World, but Cesaire’s play as well. Both texts focus on similar subject matter yet manage to leave the reader with entirely different impressions of the, in Cesaire’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Césaire, Walcott and Henri Christophe
[In the Arts One group in which I’m teaching, this week we read two plays about King Henri Christophe of Haiti, one by Aimé Césaire called The Tragedy of King Christophe (mid 1960s) and one by Derek Walcott called King Christophe (1949)]. In class today I had planned to have us talk about the […] Continue reading →