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,…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

“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…

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…

I was a bit hesitant and worried about the library workshop because I always find it difficult to find what I am looking for. Its easy to come to a dead end when looking through the databases because its difficult…

The books and the other sources we have read in the past in the course, their stories were straight forward and to the point. But in Motherless Brooklyn Lethem I feel like the author is playing the game of mystery.…