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i am so stressed right now.
so stressed that i actually put a mood icon up for this entry! thats a rarity.
let me list the work that needs to be done:
* 10 - 15 page paper for my lit critical theory class (assigned today)
There are three parts to this paper.
Part I:
You are to take any theorist that we have not looked at from the second half of the text and perform a full and complete analysis of the work. You are not to interpret it, per se, although there is plenty of room for you to agree or disagree with the theorist. I want to know that you are able to read it, to understand it, and to situate it. That means that you are to outline the main points, explore the premises and assumptions underlying the work, and place it in a context. To place this work in a context can mean any of the following: does the work fall into a paticular school of criticism, and, if so, what are the tenets of that school; do you find any relationship between the work at hand and works that we have read previously in the semester; does it develop or continue a particular theme that we have discussed and that you have found in other works. In some ways, situating the work at hand is the most difficult task. If necessary, you might have to read other works from that school or you might have to look for other writers who have used/considered the same issue.
Part II:
Here you are to go into that particular essay and take one of the ideas that you feel is particularly provacative or contentious or exciting and develop what you feel to be the full implications of the idea. In other words, take this one idea and go with it as far as you can. But look closely at that one concept. In other words, think like a theorist.
Part III:
One of the most difficult tasks of a critic is to reasonably apply a theory to a text or use a theory to explore an issue. For this part of the final you are to choose one text - and I am using the term loosely - and you are to apply that theory or that critical school to the text at hand. The text can be drawn from poetry, drama, fiction, the movies, or television, ballet, opera, or popular theatre. It can, in other words, be any symbolic object in the public sphere, including painting or music. It must, however, be an aesthetic, as opposed to an informational, object. Should you decide that you are going to read Clifford Geertz or Pierre Bourdieu - or any of the writers in cultural studies, for that matter - you will have even wider latitude. Remember, though, that you must apply the theory or the school to the text. Don't choose a text that you like. Start with a theory to which you are attracted and then find an appropriate text.
* 7 page paper for my ancient greek lit class (assigned yesterday)
* finish my ePortfolio for my learning through tech class
* two more online discussions for my learning through tech class
* final project for my toni morrison class - prefers not to be a paper but something creative, i.e film a scene from one of the books, go to different colleges and interview people and then write about their responses, blah blah fucking blah (assigned tuesday)
* my teahcing of language arts professor just told us LAST NIGHT that our final would be this upcoming wednesday and not the following wednesday during final weeks because she's going to fucking jamaica!
* re-write goldpaugh first paper
* finish goldpaugh second paper
* start goldpaugh third paper (first thing listed)
* attempt to memorize lines to the scene from The Frogs with Jenn which will be performed next friday
* i have to meet with deangelis
* i have to meet with sagarese
* i have to meet with goldpaugh
i want to go home. and curl up on the red couch. with my cat.
so stressed that i actually put a mood icon up for this entry! thats a rarity.
let me list the work that needs to be done:
* 10 - 15 page paper for my lit critical theory class (assigned today)
There are three parts to this paper.
Part I:
You are to take any theorist that we have not looked at from the second half of the text and perform a full and complete analysis of the work. You are not to interpret it, per se, although there is plenty of room for you to agree or disagree with the theorist. I want to know that you are able to read it, to understand it, and to situate it. That means that you are to outline the main points, explore the premises and assumptions underlying the work, and place it in a context. To place this work in a context can mean any of the following: does the work fall into a paticular school of criticism, and, if so, what are the tenets of that school; do you find any relationship between the work at hand and works that we have read previously in the semester; does it develop or continue a particular theme that we have discussed and that you have found in other works. In some ways, situating the work at hand is the most difficult task. If necessary, you might have to read other works from that school or you might have to look for other writers who have used/considered the same issue.
Part II:
Here you are to go into that particular essay and take one of the ideas that you feel is particularly provacative or contentious or exciting and develop what you feel to be the full implications of the idea. In other words, take this one idea and go with it as far as you can. But look closely at that one concept. In other words, think like a theorist.
Part III:
One of the most difficult tasks of a critic is to reasonably apply a theory to a text or use a theory to explore an issue. For this part of the final you are to choose one text - and I am using the term loosely - and you are to apply that theory or that critical school to the text at hand. The text can be drawn from poetry, drama, fiction, the movies, or television, ballet, opera, or popular theatre. It can, in other words, be any symbolic object in the public sphere, including painting or music. It must, however, be an aesthetic, as opposed to an informational, object. Should you decide that you are going to read Clifford Geertz or Pierre Bourdieu - or any of the writers in cultural studies, for that matter - you will have even wider latitude. Remember, though, that you must apply the theory or the school to the text. Don't choose a text that you like. Start with a theory to which you are attracted and then find an appropriate text.
* 7 page paper for my ancient greek lit class (assigned yesterday)
* finish my ePortfolio for my learning through tech class
* two more online discussions for my learning through tech class
* final project for my toni morrison class - prefers not to be a paper but something creative, i.e film a scene from one of the books, go to different colleges and interview people and then write about their responses, blah blah fucking blah (assigned tuesday)
* my teahcing of language arts professor just told us LAST NIGHT that our final would be this upcoming wednesday and not the following wednesday during final weeks because she's going to fucking jamaica!
* re-write goldpaugh first paper
* finish goldpaugh second paper
* start goldpaugh third paper (first thing listed)
* attempt to memorize lines to the scene from The Frogs with Jenn which will be performed next friday
* i have to meet with deangelis
* i have to meet with sagarese
* i have to meet with goldpaugh
i want to go home. and curl up on the red couch. with my cat.