The Creek story reminded me a bit of the film Memento, where the sequence of events or the story is arranged differently than expected, making the reader or audience reassemble the narrative discourse. I tend to enjoy narratives which make me think so to speak, and make the audience active readers rather than passive ( Read more... )

I am slightly confused about the accuracy of symptomatic readings or their grounding in the literary world. Using paratext as a basis, such as knowing one of the jobs of Chaucer had in his life was a clerk, would be used as evidence for my interpretation of the Canterbury Tales and may not be what was the implied author meant to say at all ( Read more... )

I felt that last class we spend a great deal of time overreading the photo of the Titanic wannabe ship. Abbot points out that "our minds seem to abhor narrative vacuums. We try to fill them in. If a narrative won't close by itself, one often tries to close it.. " (83). In seeing the photo of the sinking ship, our minds naturally imply our own ( Read more... )

After finishing the readings for tomorrow's class, and considering how to write my response paper to overwhelming amount of definitions, I thought that perhaps the best way would to make a mental list of the concepts I think I understood and those *mostly in the Ryan text & Media Reader* those which I felt my grasp for loose. Then it occurred to me ( Read more... )

Abbot ( Read more... )

Vashti clutches onto time like a mother to her nest eggs. Time is truly of the essence to her, and to waste time becomes an embedded fear. Kuno dares to waste her time by forcing her to speak to him face to face, and even when using the Machine to communicate, Vashti continually insists that Kuno "be quick"- she can devote only "fully five minutes ( Read more... )