**Not to sound too excited but… HERE’S MY LAST BLOG for the class!! I really enjoyed the class because to tell you the truth I was a little afraid of taking it in the beginning because I’ve never been the “poetry type”
Thanks for another great semester Debbie!!!

Well here goes…. BLOG #10
In the overview for Professional Foul, the article instructed ( Read more... )

The play deals with a lot of moral/ethical issues... should he help the Hollar’s? Should he smuggle the thesis back home with him? It is important to note when reading the play that sometimes personal morals conflict with those of the state. Anderson witnessed the Czech police planting the foreign currency in the Hollar residence but he was unable ( Read more... )

I really enjoyed the story; however, I must admit that the entire time I was reading it I was trying to figure out why the story was so familiar! After reading our blog assignment for the week I was incredibly thankful that Debbie was able to put an end to my unanswered thoughts. I had read Perrault’s original “Bluebeard” years ago and just couldn’ ( Read more... )

Postcolonialism… another new theory!! I have to admit that this blog entry took a bit of research be cause I didn’t know how this theory was related to literature.

Well here goes…
            It is important to know that not all postcolonial scholars are literary scholars; they are also political science and history scholars. I believe that it is ( Read more... )

Derek Walcott’s

“Ruins of a Great House”

There are numerous inter-textual references in Derek Walcott’s “Ruins of a Great House”.  The poem begins with a brief excerpt from Thomas Browne’s “Urn Burial” which suggests that eventually everything dies.  I believe that Walcott incorporated the quote into his work because it ties together nicely with ( Read more... )

So it seems that I have let my blogging slip away from me in the last couple weeks!!!  Well there is no need to fret because I will be a blogging professional over the next couple days to get caught up.  Hopefully everyone is either done or working through their midterms…

On with the question…

History, time... seems to be a theme, yes? So what do ( Read more... )

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake”

Stephen Daedalus is a character that has been in many of James Joyce’s literary works.  Daedalus is said to be Joyce’s literary alter ego.  The quote is taken from Ulysses which appears in episode two during Stephen’s conversation with Mr. Deasy, the school’s head master.  I think the quote ( Read more... )

So what’s it all about???

Woolf does a wonderful job of demonstrating a connection between all the characters in the novel as well as their connection with London itself.  Woolf’s repetitive use of London as a symbol shows the many times that the characters cross paths throughout the day.  As we all know… there is never enough time in a ( Read more... )

     Hopefully everyone is keeping up to date with all the assignments.. I know I've fallen a little behind but good news.. Its reading break this week so we will all be able to get caught up on things that have been pushed to the back burner.. such as: BLOGGING!!!

Deconstruction operates on binary oppositions by illustrating how the ( Read more... )

Sorry for the late entry… however judging by Debbie’s threatening statement about blogging on the homepage I’m not the only one who is playing catch up!!! J

Fear no more the heat o’ the sun

Nor the furious winter’s rages.

The re-appearing quote on page 10 of Mrs. Dalloway is taken from the funeral song in William Shakespeare’s comedy, Cymbeline, ( Read more... )