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Expectations

I read this and got pretty excited: “Literacy, Gender, and Adolescence: School-Sponsored English as Identity Maintenance.” It has the makings of something I’d love to read about; I am involved with literacy, I have a thing for gender and all its makings and transformations, and I deal with adolescents on a daily basis. Also– I [...]

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Wordplay

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 [...]

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