Great Works \’09

Hello Professor,
This is Seinfeld Hello Voice that I find very similar to your greeting.
*toast* Good luck everyone and best wishes *eye contact* *tap cups* *sip*

Here we are, our wonderfully insightful English class is drawing to a close. As I sit here at 2 in the morning lamenting my inability to properly put into the words the ideas floating around in my head — OH ESSAY, HOW YOU TORTURE ME SO — I started thinking again about what the use [...]

I decided to post my thoughts about this class as a whole and wanted to reflect on the knowledge I have acquired throughout the semester. I realized that the books assigned all contained the common theme of personal change and transformation (both for the good and for the bad). I now believe that growth as [...]

 
What is the use of literature? That question immediately irritates me because its brusque tone implies that there is no point in reading. If there is no point in reading then why read at all? Take me for example, how could I aquire the ability to interpret and describe tone if I did not take [...]

What is the use of literature? The panelists of the event, “What is the Use of Literature?” all had the goal of answering this question. Coming into this event, I had the perception that all English majors would end up being writers, poets, or professors. The event definitely changed this view, as the first [...]

The next time you (the reader) need to exact revenge on a rival foe or just feel like reading something that will make your insides writhe in pain with burning despair and complete utter sadness, by all means, The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother is the story for you. [...]

I am often frustrated in English classes or in conversations with fellow readers whenever discussing anything by Marquez, because the inevitable discussion centers on how the work belongs upon the bookshelf with all of the others by Latin American authors in the genre of “magical realism.”  I recently read something on the topic that summed [...]

So there’s been the debate about being a Reader or Not-A-Reader. I would say I am a Reader, but I have had someone accuse me of not really being a Reader since I don’t make the time to read whenever possible. Nonetheless, I do enjoy reading.
Sometimes I feel that being a Reader can be a [...]

So after attending the session on what is the use of literature, I’m sorry to say this but I feel like I did not really get much out of this discussion.  I was looking forward to the event because this is a question I ask myself everytime I have to read something for an English [...]

I’m currently taking an anthropology class and earlier this semester we discussed race as a social construct.  This seems extremely significant to this class as we are now discussing a book that takes place during Apartheid and deals with many racial questions.  Mirror For Humanity, by Conrad Phillip Kottak, describes race as a “cultural category [...]