Posted in 3387, 3386, 3385, 3388, 3389, 3392, 3391, 3390, 2735, 2964, story, the, my, and, 2745, 2962, 2829, General on Feb 27th, 2008 Comments Off
I’m too tired tonight to do any justice at all to this story, but I would like to note it and perhaps return to it another time.
Today in the 11:00 section of my Introduction to Literary Studies class the discussion was particularly rich and intense. At one point I was asking one student a series […]
Posted in 3234, 3232, 3230, 3227, 3236, 3238, 3245, 3243, 3241, 3239, 3226, 3223, 2940, and, the, my, 2745, 2962, 3207, 2752, 2735, General on Feb 12th, 2008 Comments Off
I’m in the midst of A. S. Byatt’s Possession in my Intro. to Literary Studies class, working up to assignment one, which asks students to work with symbolism in Byatt’s romance. The idea of symbolism is quite complex (the etymology alone is intricate and fascinating). Students are accustomed to talking about imagery, themes, character, even […]
Posted in 3059, 3058, 3057, 3056, 3060, 3061, 3065, 3064, 3063, 3062, 3055, 3054, a, and, the, my, 2745, 2746, 2735, 2964, 2962, General on Jan 25th, 2008 Comments Off
There’s a thread here I’d like to pursue, or at least snarl with elan.
Today in my “Introduction to Literary Studies” class we were discussing Aristotle: the Poetics mostly, with a fillip of the Rhetoric. Our text, the redoubtable Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism, had an especially observant introduction to the Aristotle selections, one […]
Posted in 2962, 2961, 2960, 2959, 2963, 2964, 2968, 2967, 2966, 2965, 2958, 2829, and, the, my, reading, 2905, a, 2746, 2745, 2942, General on Jan 15th, 2008 Comments Off
I’ve met all four of my classes once now. This semester it’s two sections of Introduction to Literary Studies (gateway course for the major–theory and criticism and genre and close reading and a partridge…), one section of Introduction to New Media Studies, and one section of Rock/Soul/Progressive. Each beginning was different. Some of the classes […]