Portfolio 2

The Second Half...and still more to come!!!
When you finally feel like the semester is coming to an end, another Portfolio pops up!! Sadly I then have the realization that it is not the last one :-(. Anyways, I always find the second portfolio and half of class to be the most challenging. We are all far into our semester and have work coming out our ears! I will admit that my commenting hasn't been up to par these past few weeks, but I am happy to say I didn't fall behind in my own blogging. Although I am glad I have been on top of my own work, I am disappointed in my comments and plan to step it up for this third blog! I have learned a lot so far this semester and feel like I have had a few Ahhh Haaa moments, but am still hoping to have the overall and overwhelming moment of enlightenment any day now! Here's to the 2/3 of class being over! One more portfolio to go!!!

1.Coverage: contains all the agenda items I have completed so far this semester
For Realzo
Men DO IT too--but who cares?
A Mouthful of Info
politics...blah
ABSURD!
Blogging From Hilton Head, SC--Response to Azar Nafisi
SHU PROduction
Always Changing and Growing
Unique STYLE!
Can't I have them All!?
The Glass SHOULD be half FULL!
T.S. is back for more and it's muddy!
Comic Parody
Make It Work!
retreat-retreat!
Melee...and some accent thingys
in at least some senses
Center of What?
the Wright question
Meta-fabulous!!

2. Depth: the blogs I felt were my best and most interesting
Sears, "Freedom Isn't Free: Free Will in La vida es sueño Revisited"
A Mouthful of Info.: I discuss the inability of free will to go hand in hand with freedom

Keesey, Chapter 5 Intro
Always Changing and Growing: I blog that literature depends and grows from the past

Paris, ''The Uses of Psychology''
Can't I have them all?: I struggle with the idea of looking at literature as a whole

Swann, ''Whodunnit? Or, Who Did What? 'Benito Cereno' and the Politics of Narrative Structure''
Make It Work: I pick apart the text to learn the intertextual style

Wright, ''The New Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism''
the Wright question: I looked at the hidden meaning in literature!

3. Interaction: blogs that helped other students and discussion
Erica Gearhart
Sears

James Lohr
Brann

Derek Tickle
Donovan

Erica Gearhart
Donovan

Mara Barreiro
Eagleton

Michelle Tantlinger
Eagleton

Derek Tickle
Eagleton

4. Discussion: interaction with my peers that helped support and challenge my blogs
Sears
A Mouthful of Info.: classmate enforce my claims and take it a step further

Keesey, Chapter 5
Always Changing and Growing: my peers relate to my use of outside art to explain the literary criticism school

Paris
Can't I have them all?: course mates help me better understand the meaning of Paris's article

Hamilton
Melee...and some accent thingys: Derek challenges my word and I try to find more information to answer his questions

Derrida
Center of What?: Ellen and Dr. Jerz primarily try to help me understand the essay better and help other students as well!

5. Timeliness: blogs that were posted early and led to discussions
Eagleton
retreat-retreat!

Swann
Make It Work!

Derrida
Center of What?

Wright
the Wright question

6. Xenoblogging: things I do to help others with blogging
Comment Primo-
Quinn Kerno: Gilbert & Guber

James Lohr: Gilbert & Guber

Ellen Einsporn: Frye

Jenna Miller: Frye

Derek Tickle: Donovan

Michelle Tantlinger : Eagleton

7. Wildcard: the one I want YOU to see!
Wright, ''The New Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism''
the Wright question

Honestly, I wasn't sure which blog to pick this time around. After looking over all my entries, I decided I was most proud of this blog. Like many of my classmates, I found post-structuralism to be a struggle. Especially after reading Derrida, I thought I wouldn't get it at all. Luckily Wright came and saved the day. I feel that after reading Wright's essay I have a better understanding of post-structuralism. Through this blog, I show the ability to find textual issues and analyze the meaning of the school of criticism. I believe it helped me understand the writing and the thought process of a post-structuralist. I am most proud of this blog, because I think I have helped my peers by posting my analysis of the reading. I hope you agree! Please read on to decide for yourself!!!