Jerz: Am Lit II (EL 267): Article on Fitzgerald 1
This was a really interesting article. It gave me a new outlook on how to be innovative and write a different type of paper instead of the same drab "The theme of this story is..." type of paper.
Although this paper was written rather lofty in my opinion, it did have a good central theme. Not many people would have picked up on the "egg" as being a metaphor or something important in the story. More often than not, while reading a story like this we don't pick up on small details that the author leaves behind. I'm thoroughly impressed.
However, the author looses me when he starts dabbling in the "chicken" part of his article instead of sticking with the "egg" idea. Although, he probably did this because there wasn't much to reference the egg idea he had so he tried to expand upon it.
Posted by LesleyTodoric at February 21, 2005 02:29 PM | TrackBackI'm glad that reading a professional scholar's essay opened your mind up to what literary research can be. Very different, indeed, from the kind of thing that your high school teachers praised you for submitting. Yes, the "chicken" part of the essay sort of puffs up what would otherwise be a very short treatment of "eggs," but as Karissa noted in class, the chicken and the egg are closely related concepts.
I was hoping to see your responses to the poetry readings for tomorrow... I hope you catch up on that soon.
Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at March 2, 2005 10:19 AM