It's been superlong in the making, but here it is as last, the third and final part in my little series about Allen Raine, her #WelshRevival novel and a discussion of #LiteraryLandscape and #music
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/allen-raine-soft-power-rebel-part-3/
#3GoodThings (about literature)
1. My students really enjoyed William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," & we had a great time talking about it (& one student even knew the Zombies song named after the story; we all listened to it & had a good laugh).
2. A student from my first-year comp. class won a writing award for her essay on Edgar Allan Poe's "The House of Usher."
3. A student who is writing a thesis under my direction won a writing award for her essay on Rachel Cusk's Outline.
1. My husband's sugar was very high. Through diet and exercise, he has been able to cut it down to a normal range.
2. A neighbor said how pretty our front yard is looking. It's a work in progress and I'm loving doing it. Photo attached.
3. My students did a great job discussing 2 short stories: Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" and the anonymously published (and oh so contemporary) 1857 story, "The Man Who Thought He Was A Woman."
Just accidentally texted some recent Marxist literary theory research to the post-modernists’ group chat.
#signal #LitStudies #academia #academicchatter
This week in teaching. #litstudies #filmstudies #academia
We were discussing Henry V in class yesterday, and a student was having trouble with the final scene between Henry and Katharine. She asked: “Henry just won the Battle of Agincourt. He’s happy, his soldiers are happy, the audience is happy, Joseph Campbell is happy. Why does #shakespeare include it?”
It gave me a chuckle. Sometimes there are lighthearted stories coming out of the classroom.
#LitStudies #academia #academicchatter
Some of my must-read books for #BlackHistoryMonth.
#PercivalEverett: JAMES and The Trees
#JasonMott: Hell of a Book
#ToniMorrison: Beloved
#MauriceCarlosRuffin: We Cast a Shadow
#SolomonNorthup: 12 Years A Slave
#HarrietJacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
#RalphEllison: Invisible Man
#DanzySenna: Colored Television
Some of my must-read books for #BlackHistoryMonth.
#PercivalEverett: JAMES and The Trees
#JasonMott: Hell of a Book
#ToniMorrison: Beloved
#MauriceCarlosRuffin: We Cast a Shadow
#SolomonNorthup: 12 Years A Slave
#HarrietJacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
#RalphEllison: Invisible Man
#DanzySenna: Colored Television
#GeorgeOrwell died today in 1950. His words & admonitions live on. Let us read, remember, & act upon them.
#Orwell died today in 1950. His words & admonitions live on. Let us read, remember, & act upon them.
January 19th (1809) is #EdgarAllanPoe's birthday. What are your favorite stories? My current ones include:
"The Man of the Crowd"
"The Black Cat"
"William Wilson"
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"Berenice"
January 19th (1809) is #EdgarAllanPoe's birthday. What are your favorite stories? My current ones include:
"The Man of the Crowd"
"The Black Cat"
"William Wilson"
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"Berenice"
#Ursula K. Le Guin on #writing: the freedom, the loneliness, the difficulty.
"You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned how to do it. Of course, there are differences. Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done anywhere, and it is done alone."
https://lithub.com/ursula-k-le-guin-on-how-to-become-a-writer/
#Ursula K. Le Guin on #writing: the freedom, the loneliness, the difficulty.
"You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned how to do it. Of course, there are differences. Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done anywhere, and it is done alone."
https://lithub.com/ursula-k-le-guin-on-how-to-become-a-writer/
One change this semester: I no longer required students to write papers in the dread five-paragraph format. It has been very liberating for some. If we are asking them to think independently, why shouldn’t they also express themselves outside of the cookie cutter? Though I begin many a comment now with: “Disclaimer: a freshman comp instructor probably wouldn’t approve. But I am not a freshman comp instructor.”
#academia #academicchatter #academicmastodon #litstudies
#EmilyDickinson was born today in 1830. What's your favorite poem of hers? So many to choose from. Here's one of mine.
The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and you—beside—
The Brain is deeper than the sea—
For—hold them—Blue to Blue—
The one the other will absorb—
As sponges—Buckets—do—
The Brain is just the weight of God—
For—Heft them—Pound for Pound—
And they will differ—if they do—
As Syllable from Sound—
I can't believe it was 12 years ago that Chris Looby and I edited American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions. The essays really hold up -- Eric Lott on the #Carpenters, Trish Loughran on #Melville, to name just two of the many excellent contributions. On December 2, #Columbia UP is having a 50% sale on all books (discount code CYBER) , including mine and Chris's, and 70% on selected others (discount code 70OFF).
Check out Columbia's terrific list!
I can't believe it was 12 years ago that Chris Looby and I edited American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions. The essays really hold up -- Eric Lott on the #Carpenters, Trish Loughran on #Melville, to name just two of the many excellent contributions. On December 2, Columbia UP is having a 50% sale on all books (discount code CYBER) , including mine and Chris's, and 70% on selected others (discount code 70OFF).
Check out Columbia's terrific list!
LitHub published a piece today on #memoir and discussed how so few were listed in the top 100 best books of the past 25 years. #Didion's Year of Magical Thinking was on it, which is one of the greatest memoirs/books I've read. Here are three of my other favorites (there are more!). How about you?
#PattiSmith, Just Kids
#HuaHsu, Stay True
#MichelleZauner, Crying in H Mart
