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Female Hero Archetype
A reader (Wayne Stauffer) sent in his conference notes from a presentation given by Jack Marshall of Houston Community College, Central (where I used to work) to add to my “How to Write a Character...
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Literature: More Than it Was Cracked Up To Be
Remember the six elements of the Conceptual Age that Pink argues we have moved into? That’s okay if you don’t. Unlike my students, you don’t have a quiz (or a test) on the topic. One of the six...
View ArticleShakespeare Sonnets and Play (and/or Design)
Still mining the comments from Siobahn Curious’ Classroom as Microcosm blog post “How Do Games Help Us Learn?” Samuel Wood said: One which I have used when teaching Shakespeare’s sonnets is to take...
View ArticleMaking the Grading Lighter
Every time I teach one class (outside my major field but not outside my minor field) I think I am not going to have such a big final exam. This year I took it to one of my colleagues. She said it was...
View ArticleObject Oriented Ontology for Lit Crit
OOO as Mode of Literary Criticism has an interesting point. It’s on a newer lit crit theory that I would actually agree with (as far as I understand it). Object-oriented criticism for its part– and it...
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“The Yellow Wallpaper”
The short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a fascinating description of clinical schizophrenia, or dementia prœcox. The idea for the yellow wallpaper in the room may be related to the fact that some...
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Introducing Shakespeare
From a friend on Facebook, I have found a video that is a wonderfully funny and pertinent introduction to Shakespeare’s language through comedian John Branyan’s Shakespearean translation of “The Three...
View ArticleTeaching Sonnets?
Billy Collins’ Sonnet on writing sonnets is online and cute. (Okay, it’s not stately like sonnets usually are, but it is fun.)
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MLA: Why Comics Are and Are Not Picture Books
While I had intended to live blog the MLA sessions I attended, I did not do so. I saved this one to add pictures to, forgot about it, and left it in my drafts without much hope of ever coming out....
View ArticleFast & Furious: How Fiction Shapes Us
The commercial: 29-seconds discussing the issue of How Fiction Shapes Us.
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Intersubjectivities in The Flood
Adam Welstead intersubjectivities Maggie Gee’s The Flood early 20C dystopian literary legacy of utopian and dangerous European experience from utopia 1910 Wells critiques of utopian stories James...
View ArticleIf Teaching Oedipus…
If you are teaching Oedipus Rex, here are modern day articles you might want to use to introduce the topic: 2014– Woman discovers she is married to her brother. 2008–Twins married.
View ArticleSCMLA: Storyworlds
Colin Irvine, Augsburg College (Minneapolis) “Reading into the World of Panem” associate prof, literature, environmental Marie-Laure Ryan writes on dystopian texts and story worlds Textual worlds—both...
View ArticleSCMLA: Close Reading Toolkit
Jennifer Sapio Close Reading Interpretive Toolkit: Transforming how we teach close reading Graduate student at University of Texas at Austin Tasked to think about traditional large lecture format, try...
View ArticleRichard III DNA Introduces New Mystery
According to the BBC, the body of Richard III is definitely his. However, his paternal line is not what they were expecting. Apparently there was some infidelity somewhere. (Wow! What a surprise!) Now...
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Spock v the Sorcerers: Fantasy or Science Fiction?
These are notes from a presentation at NineWorlds. I took them last year (2014), but apparently didn’t post them. Oops. Spock vs the Sorcerers: F or SF? The Genre Deathmatch Smackdown! Anne Perry...
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Why Folks Avoid Literature
The authors says it’s all about us. If the readings were interesting, the students would be there. What can students learn from literature that they cannot learn elsewhere? Why should they bother with...
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Literary Map of English Language
Literary history of the English language in one map: It moves through time. It starts in 1800 and moves through to this year. The article also has Kalev Leetaru’s map of locations mentioned in...
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