Monthly Archives: November 2009
Julie Myerson on the pleasures of writing
Writing gives me such enormous pleasure, and I’m a much happier (and therefore nicer) person when I’m doing it. There’s a place in my head that I go to when I write and it’s so rich and unexpected – and … Continue reading
Form and desire
[Form is] an arousing and fulfillment of desire. A work has form insofar as one part of it leads a reader to anticipate another part, to be gratified by the sequence. –Kenneth Burke
I will be in class on Monday
Here are your assignments for Friday, 06 Nov 09. 2250 Using the material you wrote and emailed me in class the last time we met, complete exercise one on page 206. Use this, like all the exercises in class, as a … Continue reading
Rhetoric and fiction
English 3510 Our introduction to Hope Leslie suggests that Sedgwick sees her texts as teaching morals: “Nineteenth-century critics endowed literature with both an aesthetic and moral purpose, which accorded with her perspective. Their laudatory recognition of her moral intent gave … Continue reading
The sickness continues
2010 (both sections) Proceed with the peer review we have planned. Be sure to email the completed forms to me as well as the peer whose work you review. The link “logos, ethos, and pathos” under 2010 can help you … Continue reading
I’ve got a sick family
and so I won’t be at school today. 2250 Workshop without me. You don’t need to email the completed forms to me this time. 3510 Keep up with the assigned reading. We’ll talk about the first big chunk … Continue reading
Metaphor by Metaphor 