Wow, I just can’t believe it is already time to write our “I, Literary Critic” blog entry.  I feel like it was just yesterday that we wrote “Literature, Criticism and I.”  In that paper, written very early in the semester, I expressed my concern with being able to “do” literary …

Well friends, this is the final participation portfolio of the semester and of my college career since I graduate in LESS THAN TWO WEEKS!!!!  Looking back on my blog entries since the last participation portfolio, I am noticing that I do not have as many as usual.  We have been …

I was surprised reading about the different critical theories that I have never heard about in “Theory After Theory” in Barry.  I thought the concept of presentism was interesting.  Look at a piece of literature considering the context of the present instead of the past just seems so interesting to …

For exercise six, I am going to do a cultural studies approach to Gwendolyn Brook’s works “We Real Cool”
Here is the poem:
“We Real Cool”
THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
I read Dick Hebdige’s …

For my term paper, I am working with the topic of Gilbert and Gubar’s “angel woman.” I am looking at both “The Oval Portrait” and “The Birthmark.” I was hoping to find an article in Rivkin and Ryan dealing with psychoanalysis to include in my paper about the angel woman …

“Such a position would allow us to include people geographically displaced by colonialism such as African-Americans or people of Asian or Caribbean origin in Britain as ‘postcolonial’ subjects although they live within metropolitan cultures. It also allows us to incorporate the history of anti-colonial resistance with contemporary resistances to imperialism …

As I want to write a New Historicism paper on Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” I did not find any of the New Historicism essays to be helpful.  I read through three of them and glanced through the rest of them, and still had no luck finding one that would help me …

In “Introduction: Writing the Past,” Rivkin and Ryan provide background information on New Historicism and how to utilize it. The quote I will blog about is one I found so absolutely relevant within this essay:
“History is not some unmediated reality out there, some stable background that the literary text reflects …

As I’m sure the case is for many of us, this is not my first time reading Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.”  Before reading it again, I instantly remembered the grandmother’s hat and white gloves.  Since these articles of clothing are symbolic of her social class, …

In “The Company of Wolves,” Angela Carter conveys the way women in earlier times were submissive in the first half of the story when she discusses the stereotypical women and the history of wolves. Through the retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood,” Carter is proclaiming that women today are capable …