After reading Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics, I felt like I had a fair understanding of what he was saying. However, when I began writing this I started questioning myself again completely changing my original thoughts sending me back to recent weeks where I was continually stuck in a rut of misunderstanding about what [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Saussure! We’re getting there Theory…(slowly but surely)
Posted in theory 330 on January 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Marxism and Literature/ Introduction: Rhizome
Posted in theory 330 on January 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is my attempt to discuss what I understood in both of these readings and what left me a puzzled.
What I found most interesting in Williams whole essay was the last line on page 1567 when he states, “Indeed the special property of ‘literature’ as a concept is that it claims this kind [...]
Bakhtin…
Posted in theory 330 on January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For me this reading was difficult in more than one way. As soon as I felt like I was understanding what Bakhtin was trying to say, the next sentence would completely throw me off and make me think I had no idea what I had previously read. To take a stab at what [...]
Introduction- Theory 330
Posted in theory 330 on January 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I chose to study English when I realize how much of a passion I had for the subject. In high school I had a ninth grade teacher that was so intriguing when she spoke of authors like Shakespeare and Homer. She brought life to a subject that most students dread because it was [...]
