Introduction to Literary Study Spring 2008

Yesterday I went to Long Beach where a couple of my friends have a house. Unfortunately it was Irishfest , I don't get it. I don't ...

I recently went shopping, I used to hate it, but now in some strange way it makes me feel important. I don't know. Anyway, I was look...

Another music installment, just recently purchased One Day As A Lion . The band consists of front man Zach De La Rocha from Rage Against Th...

I'm pretty sure no one is reading this and it will fade away into the infinite cyberspace. So I will write in this every once in a while...

I am reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy, so far it's nothing to go crazy about. I was expecting something a little different after vi...

As I announced in class, you can rest content: there will be no more blogs through the end of the term. We'll be working on the final ...

I think that Shakespeare’s King Lear offers a very interesting analysis for a Feminist Critic. Shakespeare does not relegate his women to an...

Women in Shakespeare haven’t always been given a fair shake. I’ve mentioned before about Kate in Taming of the Shrew and I’m sure we’re a...

Due to transportation/vacation issues, it looks like I won't be able to make it for class tomorrow. Let's just push everything to W...

The Story of King Lear suggests a feminist thinking. When King Lear decides to give up his kingship to his 3 daughters, he wants to hear how...

I haven’t finished the entire play yet, but I’m assuming that this will play a big factor in how it all ends: Of Lear’s three daughters Cord...

While reading William Shakespeare’s King Lear, the various plot lines taking place create multiple layers in which to uncover theories we’ve...

King Lear is a shakespare play that displayed everything horrible that could be imaginable by any one else that would have read this, wou...

From the moment the play starts, you can see an obvious role that femisims plays throught it. It starts with King Lear asking his three daug...

King Lear is known as being a tragedy, and as I read this play for the second time I realized and understand why Shakespeare and its critics...

Reading "King Lear" with the theory of genre in mind, many of Chandler's points are illuminated. The play is supposed to be a ...

Reading King Lear from the beginning I got this notion of Post-Colonialism and specifically reading Conrad’s, Heart of Darkness. Through cri...

“Come not between the dragon and his wrath,” King Lear exclaims angrily, when Kent tries to tell him that what he has decided upon his daugh...

An interesting look at King Lear from a feminist perspective can be taken in Act I Scene III, the Duke of Albany's Palace. This scene c...

In the opening of act one scene one, I immediately catch sight of a feminist point of view. In this act, King Lear anticipates to divide his...

A feminist literary critic would be interested in analyzing King Lear , particularly 1.1.190-1.1.276, the first scene in the play in which t...

PLEASE NOTE: This morning (4.22) I returned via email the second drafts of your first essays. If you haven't gotten yours, please let m...

Is it fair to judge a writer for the topic he chooses? Is a writer just writing what the world portrays or is he actually sharing in those t...

With each topic of discussion, whether it be genre, Marxism, feminism, or colonialism/post-colonialism, the focus seems to keep coming back ...

Coetzee new move to me wouldn't seem to be a strike towards him being a racist , neither would his writing. to me most writers tend to...

Coetzee’s book was in heated controversy, with people pouring out their own side of stories. In my mind, this is reminiscent of the book ‘he...

I found Coetzee’s comment on T.S Elliot’s emigration the most provoking thought in Rachel Donadio’s article “Out of South Africa”. Coetzee m...

According to the New York Times article, South Africa is referring to Coetzee’s novel Disgrace as being a racist novel. This article is b...

The New York Times article accusing Coetzee of being a racist is ridiculous, especially in instance of his work Disgrace. For throughout the...

So we’ve come back to these questions: Is a work racist? And if a work is racist does that mean that the writer is a racist? I thin...

After reading the article on Coetzee and finishing the novel, my opinion of Coetzee had remained the same. I don't know if you can call ...

After reading Coetzee’s move to Australia New York times article it is now revealed that the author discovered the tensions of post-aparthei...

Although Coetzee's, "Disgrace" does have undeniable undertones of post-colonialism and post-apartheid themes, we also have to ...

From the standpoint of the South African government, J.M. Coetzee's book, Disgrac e , is racist literature. Coetzee, according to the g...

Coetzee’s Disgrace has been accused of misrepresenting racial relations in South Africa by providing a very limited perspective of blacks, ...

Coetzee didn’t really come off as racist to me. While reading “Disgrace” I didn’t really think of race that much. I must have read right ove...

“Disgrace” was a novel about a David Laurie a college professor who goes to live with his daughter Lucy on the farm after he is accused ...

I feel that the New York Times is going about this all wrong, just as everyone else seems to be doing as well. You see I think people seem t...

Knowing that Coetzee’s novel “Disgrace” explored unresolved tensions of post apartheid order we begin to investigate that the author was acc...

I'd like to combine our closing conversation on post-modernism with a discussion of authorial responsibility. To that end, for Wednesda...

Post colonialism can be described as “a set of theories in philosophy, film, political sciences and literature that deal with the cultural l...

"Disgrace" is an amazing story, that really allowed me to play with my emotions. In the beginning I could not see how this story w...

When completing Coetzee’s novel Disgrace, the remnants of post-colonialism are clearly seen underlying the dramatic story of David Laurie an...

The link between post-colonialism and “Disgrace” becomes much more apparent once I reached chapter seven. Lurie leaves his sophisticated cit...

Effects of colonization around the world today include conflicts found in many areas that were once colonized or controlled by Western Europ...

I have to say I was getting a little choked up at the end when he was giving his dog over to Bev Shaw, I was kind of hoping he was going to ...

What I think I was sort of getting to (in a kind of roundabout way) in the last blog was the evidence of Achebe's idea that we (Westerne...

Upon finishing Coetzee's "Disgrace", there is definitely more of a connection to post-colonialism and the relationship that fo...

After having completed Coetzee's Disgrace , a more direct connection to post-colonialism is apparent. Rather than setting up a context ...