I’ll start this post off by saying that I am a British literature fanatic. I focused on British literature, inadvertently at first, in my undergraduate work, and I have been fortunate enough to have landed a job teaching British literature to 12th graders, a job which I have done for the past 3 years. However, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘criticism’
Stop Judging me!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged analysis, criticism, Graff on September 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Wordplay
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged critical, criticism, Dr. B, Elias, literacy, wordplay on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to Dr. Bottinelli’s Literary Criticism (or has it been renamed to Literary [Critical?] Theory yet?) seminar, I have this dirty habit of overextending the value of a single word. Sign, signifier, signified- all that meshes together into language, which is symbolic enough, but what about words that struggle with multiple meanings? The layers of [...]