The skill of a writer is a happy one because it is based upon play.
Ah, Robert Scholes. You’ve descended into my life like a whimsical breath of fresh air, bringing with you dangling preludes of change and evolution tangled between scholastic facts and personal revelations. You dazzle me, the eager reader, with chance and possibility, [...]
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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 [...]