After finishing Benito Cereno, I stopped for a minute to marvel at what a masterpiece Herman Melville had written. Melville’s depiction of the practice of slavery is a scene that I had never thought about or heard […]
Recently, I began to write a little realistic fiction. As it was my first attempt it wasn’t very good. There were many details that I failed to include. However, as I was the author, narrator, and protagonist, it […]
As Culler describes the relationship between poetics and rhetoric as “allies” it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that many poems happen to use a lot of rhetorical figures. In regards to the two poems we read, it […]
The idea that language, regardless of whether it is spoken, written or sung, can convey an entirely separate meaning than the intention of the speaker, author or singer is something that never occurred to me. […]
After continuing to read Culler’s “What is Literature and Does it Matter?”, his explanation of Literature as Fiction really stuck with me. In my mind this angle of literature is the and easiest to see and […]
Personally, I believe that the most important aspect that Culler points out is that there is not one way to define literature. He makes this clear when he states that “We are dealing with two different […]
Hello everyone, my name is Amir Hanif Uddin. I usually just go by Hanif. I am a transfer student to LaGuardia, making me a freshman again. I spent a few semesters in Hunter College, and made a lot of […]
