Great blog Maria! I really enjoyed your inventiveness with this! I think you should consider your word choice through implementing textual or directive words in order to evoke energy and interest from the reader. For example you said; “taps into them”, consider, “engages the audiences’ soul”, this is captivating and clear. Similarly, there are instancesContinue reading “Peer Review #4”
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Sweet Confectionary
Week 10: BEAT Generation. CREATIVE: Create a short story that captures the values of the BEAT Generation. I was walking past my local milk bar that was advertising a… “! NEW CANDY ! It’ll put a hole in your tooth! The new rock sour candy is too BIG to fit in your mouth! It isContinue reading “Sweet Confectionary”
Virginity is a construct. Critiquing Mina Loy “Feminist Manifesto”
Write a response, either agreeing or disagreeing, with Mina Loy’s revolutionary suggestion that women should undergo “unconditional surgical destruction of virginity” Virginity as a construct is a fact of innocence. The convolute qualities of this can mislead people to objectify and or interpret virginity with weakness, vulnerability and subservience. Mina Loy was a modernist poetContinue reading “Virginity is a construct. Critiquing Mina Loy “Feminist Manifesto””
A Diary Entry Set during the Early Colonialist Period
Blog 5 OWN TOPIC: CREATIVE. Create a diary entry from the perspective of a person set in the early 19th Century with injections of anti context values and perceptions from a modern perspective. Dear Diary, Today I had the most odd experience… I was pegging the sheets on the string from the house to theContinue reading “A Diary Entry Set during the Early Colonialist Period”
Peer review #3
Du Bois African American Literature. Nice work Bella! You have effectively explained how Du Bois identified the colour line. Your explanation is comprehensive, however, I would love to hear about whether you think the issues of the “colour line” are still present today? In the context of American western society today, there are still issuesContinue reading “Peer review #3”
Peer Review #2
Lovely words! the excerpt you picked out is one of my favourites as well. Perhaps, the reflection on the source can be more directive, you list a lot of terms using commas, however, expanding on these ideas and romanticising them would be a pleasure to read and relate to the theme of your piece nicely.Continue reading “Peer Review #2”
“Every Day Use” preservation or participation?
WALKER Does Alice Walker believe that the “Everyday Use” of the old quilts is protecting or destroying tradition? Remember from the Introduction that we are told that Alice Walker resembles each of the characters in her narrative. “Everyday use” can be used a metaphor for how African American cultured is practised in every day lifeContinue reading ““Every Day Use” preservation or participation?”
Peer Review #1
Reflection from Joey’s blog about modernism! Thanks Joey for a really exciting piece! Your rhetorical question is something I consider often, what is the next ‘thing’ in literature and how will it impact our lives? Will it be the consequence of a morbid WW3?Or Will the increase of anxiety in society finally seek an outletContinue reading “Peer Review #1”
A Narrow Fellow In the Grass- Remastered.
Week 5: Write a poem like Emily Dickinson Starting line: “A narrow Fellow in the Grass-“ A narrow Fellow in the Grass- Wanders- consumed was I- And there’s a time his head did click- There he silently lay- – – – Senseless sadness left in shade- Upon his bony name- The flowers writhed in subtleContinue reading “A Narrow Fellow In the Grass- Remastered.”
Unity of Nature and the Mind. Referencing Emerson’s Nature Essay (1836)
CRITICAL and CREATIVE Week 4 Blog 1 Choose a sentence/s from Emerson’s essay “Nature” that really struck you as being accurate to your own experience of nature. Write a paragraph that captures an experience of nature of your own that supports what you understand to be Emerson’s vision of nature. Emerson highlights the importance and sacrednessContinue reading “Unity of Nature and the Mind. Referencing Emerson’s Nature Essay (1836)”
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