Unoriginal
"There's no such thing as a wholly original work of literature." (Foster 29)
I thought about this fact a lot, even before I read this statement. Everything we write or read has a source somewhere that is similar that inspired it. Every work shares something similar with another writing. Its almost depressing in a way to understand.
To be honest after reading these few sections in the book and even after what we've been doing in class, I'm beginning to believe more and more that this isn't what I want to do. I love English, but I think I would rather just enjoy it however I choose than try to dissect it and find the right and wrongs. How could I become a English teacher and motivate my students to study English when I find myself not really caring about it?
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Dennis G. Jerz on Unoriginal: Katie, that's a very honest co
Katie, that's a very honest comment.
One of the points I want to make in EL150 is that interpreting literature is not about looking up and memorizing the "right and wrong" answers (which can really kill the enjoyment in reading). Instead, there are any number of *possible* readings, and being a critical reader means you can focus only on those readings that are actually worth discussion because they are not only *possible*, but there is textual support (in the reading itself) for why this reading is also *useful* or even *necessary*.
I'd be very interested in hearing from you as you work out this idea as the course progresses.
there is only so many books that writers can write before copying from some other source, just look at Hollywood remaking old films again.