So Long, Farewell, Auf wiedersehen, Good Night

Well, this is AndrewTheory’s final post. In total, this is the 24th, but if we count just the active, functional ones (the ones that dealt with Literary Criticism and not just announcements) then there are 20. Below, you’ll find a list of all of the blog posts here. The announcements, which are not counted for [...]

Feminism: Take Two

If you’re wondering if “Take Two” is a subtitle or a medication suggestion, its officially just a subtitle. After last time’s fiasco with Hélène Cixous, I’m going to take another crack at understanding Feminism via Virginia Wolfe. Wish me luck.

(Good luck!)

Shakespeare’s Sister: OK, I’ve got this one. Basically, if Shakespeare had a sister who was [...]

Hey, Lane? Seek Sue.

Hélène Cixous, a feminist writer. “Born in Oran, Algeria, to a multicultural, diasporic Jewish family that spoke German and French, she was surrounded by Spanish and Arabic . . . ,” etc., etc. Wow. I think I noted before that a lot of the people in our textbooks led interesting lives. Cixous does not disappoint [...]

Literature and Genre Fiction

Alternate Title: I Just Finished My Senior Project Presentation and Need To Talk About This
Heya, loyal readers! I’m done with my Senior Project, finally, and I’d like to repeat my feelings about Genre and Literature. A lot of this post is going to be pasted from my essay, but trust me, at least 300 words [...]

Sartre in a Jiffy

Alternate Title: “I Spent Too Much Time Reading the Essay and Now I Only Have Ten Minutes Before I Need to Leave For a Meeting So Don’t Read This One As Typical of My Work, Because It Really Isn’t All That Good At All.

Ack! Not much time today! This blog post is a rushed job. [...]

Blogs Gone Wilde

This is going to be a brief post; I feel I’ve earned a respite after the last three 450-word works.

Today’s topic is Oscar Wide, specifically his “Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray” which is on page 899 in our class textbooks. By the by, I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned what our book [...]

Pierre Corneille and the Deathly Hallows

OK, look, I’m back and I SWEAR this is the last entry about Pierre Corneille. He’s a nice guy and all, but third time is the charm. No more introduction; if you haven’t read the last two posts, don’t read this one. There’s just too much history behind it. Diving in:

For my senior project this [...]

Pierre Corneille and the Goblet of Fire

OK, we’re back. If you haven’t read the last blog, go back and do so now, because this one just takes off from where the last one left off. We were talking about Pierre Corneille’s idea about the “unity of time.”

Here are two interesting examples and just a brief statement about each.

Mason Free (A Drama): [...]

Pierre Corneille and the Sorcerer’s Stone

While it may seem odd, I prefer the biographical essays in our textbook far more than I tend to enjoy the “critical essays” themselves. A lot of these writers, like Pierre Cornielle’s, today’s (or this week’s) essayist, lead very interesting lives. It’s probably just the History-minor and Storyteller in me. Anyway, here we go: “Of [...]

Re: Kant

If it seems to you like I’m jumping around the book all willy-nilly, it’s probably because I am. I tend to poke around a bit for anything that looks interesting, and then reading it over and writing up a blog about it. Somehow, this way makes more sense to me than writing about what we’re [...]