Okay, either I have just discovered a completely untapped vein of literary criticism, or the new MLA database search algorithms really are that bad.

*checks other databases*

Wait. Seriously, no one has written anything connecting Chopin's Awakening to Woolf's A Room of One's Own? Not a single person? Okay, yes, it probably wouldn't make up a ( Read more... )

This lack of e-mailed comments is really starting to get annoying. lj_maintenance claims it's fixed, but as yet I have nothing in my inbox. Did the snowflake cookies break LJ permanently?

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( Interview meme from loneraven )

You know how "text" has become the de facto short form of "text message"? EVERY TIME I see it used in a sentence, I think "literary text." Which is what leads me to incidents like reading number six on this list, and spending several seconds wondering if Chris Pine is a fan of D.H. Lawrence or something.

An exceptionally cool poem: "Beach Climbing," by Elizabeth Barrette. Science fiction and poetry, the best things ever, combined into one! Lots more at the Strange Horizons site ( Read more... )

I finally got around to watching the 2003 live-action Peter Pan.

WOW, that was Freudian. Wow. It's like shooting fish in a barrel when one applies Freudian analysis[1] to texts about puberty and growing up, so generally I try not to do it. (To those kinds of texts or anything, really, because usually someone doing that makes me want to scream ( Read more... )

I finally finished A.S. Byatt's Possession last night. I saw the movie when it first came out on DVD, but was only dimly aware that it had first been a book. Picked it up from the library a little while ago.

( Longish discussion with many spoilers; blather about postmodernism and deconstruction within )

Remember how I said I wanted to do a paper on how a similar premise is treated by two different TV programs?

Er, yes. I got another disc of Ballykissangel episodes from Netflix today.

( Really, really long treatise on Ballyk and Northern Exposure, with related 'ship comparisons and some babble about differences between America and Ireland. Spoilers for everything. )

( 'The Hand of Fear' and some general Sarah Jane ramblings )

BWAH!

Post-modernist deconstruction of a grocery list, as seen on metaquotes.

Sheer brilliance. And people wonder why I don't want an advanced degree in English...

For my Linguistics paper, in which I'm doing a linguistic analysis of scenes from Elizabethtown, I'm supposed to include a section on the "communicative effect" of the "speech event," which as far as I know, basically means "describe the interaction ( Read more... )