Archives
- 2010.05.09: Final Portfolio---Ever!
- 2010.05.09: Text as Art
- 2010.05.03: eBook Readers and the Future of Education
- 2010.05.03: But Teacher, Aren't We Supposed to Share?
- 2010.05.03: Text Standardization, but What Does It Mean?
- 2010.05.03: ROYGBIV Isn't Just about Looking Pretty
- 2010.04.28: Will iPads, nooks, or Kindles be a Common Sight in Classrooms of the (Not So Distant) Future?
- 2010.04.24: I Really Don't Get What the Big Deal Is
- 2010.04.22: Topics in Media and Culture: The History and Future of the Book--Portfolio II
- 2010.04.14: A Big Suprise from Interactive Fiction
- 2010.04.14: I Think I Am Understanding Aarseth
- 2010.04.14: This Video Was a Helpful Guide
- 2010.04.12: Just Trying to Get Aarseth's Ideas
- 2010.04.11: ELO Collection
- 2010.04.07: Cybertext Might Not Be So Bad Afterall
- 2010.04.07: Some Research Ideas
- 2010.03.29: I'm Agreeing with Darnton
- 2010.03.24: Translation or Preservation-Books Will Still Have To Be Forgotten
- 2010.03.24: Originals are Great to Have, but We Need to Be Realistic Too
- 2010.03.22: This Is a Really Strange Book
- 2010.03.22: I Don't Know If I Like It Yet
- 2010.03.17: Print: Good and Not So Great
- 2010.03.12: Did Technology Really Develop the Soul?
- 2010.03.06: Why Are We Not Speaking about What We Are Writing?
- 2010.03.03: Text Does Speak, but It Has Many Voices
- 2010.02.24: Handwriting: It Started with Slaves, Moved on to Doctors, and Now It Has It's Own Doctor!
- 2010.02.24: Topics in Media and Culture: The History and Future of the Book--Portfolio I
- 2010.02.15: "Classic Orality Is..." Translatable?
- 2010.02.14: Are Our Own Ways of Teaching Appropriate?
- 2010.02.14: The Alphabet: Simplified, but Is It Really Simple?
- 2010.02.08: Have Our Stages of Communication Really Changed That Much?
- 2010.02.08: PowerPoint-Not So Bad Afterall?
- 2010.02.07: Today I'm Liking the Physical World the Best
- 2010.02.03: How Do We Think?
- 2010.02.03: Ancient Romans, Illiteracy, and the Internet
- 2010.02.01: Not Loving Technology, but Learning to Appreciate It
- 2010.01.27: Anyone Can Provide Some Truth
- 2010.01.27: Translation and Homer's Iliad
- 2010.01.27: Simple Paths, but Empowering Consequences
- 2009.05.08: Blogging Portfolio III- Yay! We Are Done!
- 2009.04.20: Term Project Update
- 2009.04.20: Con-texts in Context
- 2009.04.20: Suprises
- 2009.04.20: Some Answers (for me) and Some Questions (for you)
- 2009.04.20: Connections
- 2009.04.19: Some Surprises
- 2009.04.13: "Political Criticism": A Disappointment
- 2009.04.13: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them- and If They Can't Beat You, Join Them Anyway
- 2009.04.13: "Wallpaper," "Wall Paper," or "Wall-Paper": Uncertainty in Gilman's Story
- 2009.04.13: Reading the Work and What Is Being Read Within It
- 2009.04.13: I Spy More Than Poststructuralism
- 2009.04.13: Literature: Reliable or Unreliable?
- 2009.04.07: Poststructuralism and Deconstruction Deconstructed (Maybe)
- 2009.04.02: Blogging Portfolio II
- 2009.03.28: Help with Signifier and Signified
- 2009.03.28: Understanding Poststructuralism-At Least I Think
- 2009.03.28: Poststructuralism-Is It Really Its Own School?
- 2009.03.24: I Don't Like Scrambled Eggs, but I Do Like Eagleton's Essay
- 2009.03.14: Terms from Northrop Frye's "The Critical Path"
- 2009.03.14: Important Quotes from Frye's "The Critical Path"
- 2009.03.14: A Road to Help You Through Frye's "The Critical Path"
- 2009.03.13: What Is a Diptych?
- 2009.03.13: More Evidence for the Monomyth, Plus I Really Understand Intertextuality!
- 2009.03.13: A Little Different, but Still Valuable
- 2009.03.13: A Really Great Critical Piece and...Maybe We Are Getting This Stuff!
- 2009.03.12: The Feminists Are Making Me Angry
- 2009.03.12: Actors or Actresses-It Makes All the Difference
- 2009.03.02: Project Proposal
- 2009.03.02: Some Themes for You to Think about
- 2009.03.01: Free Thinkers and Divine Monarchs-How Do They Get Along?
- 2009.03.01: Synesthesia-Imagery with All the Senses
- 2009.03.01: I Think I Like Mimetic Criticism!
- 2009.03.01: It Might Be a Poor Critique of the Literature, but a Good Mimetic Evaluation
- 2009.03.01: It's Too Complex for Me
- 2009.02.25: Portfolio 1
- 2009.02.25: Colonialism Carnival
- 2009.02.23: A Little Fun and a Little Analysis
- 2009.02.22: Getting Ready for "Life Is a Dream"
- 2009.02.22: Reader-Response Criticism + Others = Understanding
- 2009.02.22: Who Is the Reader?
- 2009.02.22: Is It a Help, a Hindrance, or Just Plain Crazy?
- 2009.02.22: Is Reader-Response Criticism One School or Four?
- 2009.02.15: An Aphorism and Chiasmus
- 2009.02.15: A+ Example of Style and Organization, but I'm Not Sure about the Rest
- 2009.02.15: Understanding Formalist Criticism
- 2009.02.15: No More Paraphrase (Okay, We Have to Use It Sometimes)
- 2009.02.14: I Think I Found a Muddy Point
- 2009.02.08: History and the Audience
- 2009.02.08: I Think Watson Has Learned Something from Sherlock
- 2009.02.08: Yay--There Are Pictures in This Book!
- 2009.02.08: Where Is the Perfect Formula for Literary Criticism?
- 2009.02.08: Animated Shakespeare
- 2009.02.02: Thank Goodness We Have Hamilton!
- 2009.02.02: Who Can Be a Critic?
- 2009.02.02: I Get Her Condition, but What about the Rest of the Story?
- 2009.02.01: Letters, Novels, or Blogs-What Really Is Literature?
- 2009.01.25: Formalism, Correspondence, Coherence, or a Little Bit of Everything?
- 2009.01.25: Litotes and Chiasmus- I've Never Heard of Them, but Did Keats?
- 2009.01.25: Really, Who Is the Unidentified “they?”
- 2009.01.25: Lack of Personality and Emotion-Is this really what writing is about?
- 2008.05.02: Hordes of Hyperlinks Part III: A Final Portfolio
- 2008.04.24: Commas in Wit
- 2008.04.22: The Bible and Free Verse?
- 2008.04.22: The End of Ender
- 2008.04.20: Why Are They Outcasts?
- 2008.04.20: Prose or Poetry?
- 2008.04.17: Sci-Fi Is Actually Real
- 2008.04.15: "One Tiny Little" Problem
- 2008.04.10: I Still Prefer the Oxford English Dictionary
- 2008.04.10: Hidden Rhymes
- 2008.04.08: Introspection
- 2008.04.08: Subplots or Superplots, They All Make a Difference
- 2008.04.03: Hordes of Hyperlinks Part II, but This Time Much More Enjoyable
- 2008.04.02: The First :-)
- 2008.04.02: !:The Really Active and Disruptive Sibling
- 2008.04.01: Virginia Woolf, Semi-Colons, and (Hopefully) a Colon Example
- 2008.04.01: I Think I Lived Another Life as a 6th Century Scribe
- 2008.03.30: It Is a Puctuation Book, Not a Grammar Book
- 2008.03.30: A Small Confession- I Actually Like Learning about Grammar
- 2008.03.25: Peacocks, Peacocks, and More Peacocks
- 2008.03.13: Mrs. Havisham Isn't a Round Character?
- 2008.03.13: Ambiguity in O'Connor
- 2008.03.11: I Finally Get Close Reading!
- 2008.03.10: An Unconventional Birth of Ideas
- 2008.03.06: Be Your Own Tour Guide
- 2008.03.06: The Corporate World Is Not for Me...Or Maybe it Could Be
- 2008.03.05: Good Story and Academic Literary Devices? Of Course!
- 2008.03.05: She Really Just Wanted to Sell the Book
- 2008.03.01: Sir Michael Sims
- 2008.03.01: Could the Valedictorian Be a Crappy Teacher? Of Course!
- 2008.03.01: Could You Live on Only $281 Per Month?
- 2008.02.28: Fate and Raindrops
- 2008.02.28: Dickinson's Diction
- 2008.02.25: Verbal Irony or Just an Angry Tom Wingfield?
- 2008.02.25: Suicide? Mercy? Or Just Another Sad Story?
- 2008.02.24: Women Rule (But I Feel Sorry for the Guys!)
- 2008.02.23: Hordes of Hyperlinks: A Compilation of Blogs
- 2008.02.21: Falling Stars, Witches, and Anime
- 2008.02.21: On Creepy Men and Plotting Women
- 2008.02.19: Good Gifts: Money or Talents?
- 2008.02.18: Love Cards and Shakespeare
- 2008.02.18: Life, Death, and Poetry
- 2008.02.17: God and Victory
- 2008.02.17: Imagery in "Because I could not stop for Death"
- 2008.02.14: Great Writers in Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
- 2008.02.14: Critical Reading and Symbols
- 2008.02.12: Foreshadowing and Characterization in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
- 2008.02.12: Epic Myths
- 2008.02.12: Epic Myths
- 2008.02.07: Showing in Short Stories
- 2008.02.07: Never Judge "A Book" by Its Cover
- 2008.02.05: Showing Why "Seasons Matter"
- 2008.02.05: Women's "Trifles"
- 2008.02.03: Foster and Lemire
- 2008.02.03: The First Story
- 2008.02.02: Teenagers, Bobs, and Liberation
- 2008.02.02: The Ham Shows All
- 2008.02.01: Meaningful Title
- 2008.01.27: Seton Hill University Academic Weblog
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