Not really clear on what Albert’s condition is, but is anyone? Including the very psychiatrist who tended to him? “The Man Who Walked Away” reminds me of the scene from “Forrest Gump” when he just starts running all across the…
Writing about Mental Health
Our discussion in class the other day about the ethics of writing about mental illnesses reminded me of this Vice article that I had read a few months back. The author, an anonymous observer, writes about his experience with his…
I wanted to continue the brief conversation we had about our feelings of college on this post. I agree with many of you when you say that we learn a lot of pointless things in school. I feel like school,…
Professor Chu on Lyricism
What makes a lyric poem “lyrical” is a constellation of interrelated attributes that have characterized Anglophone poetry from the Renaissance (if not earlier) to the present. Lyric poetry is frequently soliloquy-like. Lyric voices speak from beyond ordinary time. Lyric poems…
Annotated Bibliography Guidelines
You have hard copies already, but I figured I’d post the annotated bibliography guidelines here too. Once you have completed your proposal and received feedback from me, the next phase of your research projects will be to compile an annotated…
Maud Casey, In Her Own Words
Hi everybody. Maud Casey wrote an article about The Man Who Walked Away for my blog a while back, and I also interviewed her about the novel. I thought you might want to read what she has to say about…
A look at Casey’s narration style in ‘The Man Who Walked Away’
“To keep from being afraid, Albert sometimes says to himself, Fascinating! Or, Magnificent! Or, Yet another escapade! Even when he is lost, he is not lost. No one fine day he found himself in a public square. No it seems…
The Man Who Walked Away
Maud Casey’s novel The Man Who Walked Away was well written, almost poetic. The protagonist Albert walking from place to place, different cities and countries was an interesting concept. It was unfamiliar to me how someone could walk all over…
An End In Itself/An Ant on the Shelf/An Aunt Who Needs Help
“Ronald Schleifer argues that the shortening of the distance between the signifier and signified, together with the emphasis on the materiality of language- both common to all poetic phenomena- are also features of Tourettic language. Thus, the connection between linguistic…
workshop and Motherless Brooklyn
On Tuesday, we visited the Library to get an insight on how to go about finding sources for our final project. I found the library meeting to be very helpful because we got advice from one of the best Nancy…
