Hey all, been a while. Took a bit of a break as the spring semester started to get hectic really quickly. Shakespeare, Advanced Composition, just needed to focus. Sat my final exam today: Shakespeare. Think I'm coming out with a 3.9 this time around, oh well. Heading to London in two weeks for a summer study abroad, hopefully I'll be able to keep up with this blog and the London vlog at the same time. Check in for updates. Anyway, here's what I'm reading now.
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Friday, May 6, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
The H-Word
In perusing the nigh-on-400 comments made on The New York Times’ website concerning Lorrie Moore’s article “Send Huck Finn to College,” one gets a taste of the immense can of worms that was opened when NewSouth Books announced their new, “n-word”-free edition of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The commentators – and the author – bring up good points: Does the American canon need revision? Yes. Is the literature on the average high school curriculum racially biased? Sometimes. Is the infamous “n-word” a sensitive term connoting centuries of racism and atrocities? Of course. Should Huck Finn be censored? Absolutely not. Censorship is the worst enemy of literature. But Moore’s point in writing her article is not questioning whether or not the book should be censored – she stands unequivocally against it – but whether or not Huckleberry Finn should be taught in high schools in the first place.
"Jane Eyre" Chapters 1 - 4
For a class on Victorian Literature, I am again reading through Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece Jane Eyre. For this post, I am focusing on the first four chapters of the novel, representing Jane’s time at Gateshead with the Reed family and her mistreatment there. In particular, I want to briefly discuss the liminality of the novel and the action of thresholds in these first four chapters.
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