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Now that I finished reading “Benito Cereno,” I found it really interesting how Herman Melville speaks about slavery. Through Delano’s eye, we can see that he wants to look at the slaves as normal human beings, […]

I would like to offer my fellow classmates, and you, professor, a little games; some plot are so famous that I thought it would be interesting to try to describe them and see if you can recognize it.
1) My first […]

In chapter 5, Jonathan Culler describes synecdoche and metonymy as using a word to refer to another bringing out the idea of it. I find this absolutely fascinating that thanks to milestones thought history, and […]

The Saussure theory is based on the fact that the word we attribute to an object gives it importance and recognition. But as Shakespeare said, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” English not being my […]

What is attractive in a text? Is it the wording? Is it the story? Its grammatical tournure?

In his paragraph ” the paradox of literature,” Jonathan Cullen argues that literature wants us to fill up specific […]

Is every writing of any type or any form considered as literature? During the first ten pages of the second chapter of the book “Literature theory,” Jonathan Culler tries to expose what could, was, or would in the […]

My name is Geraldine Lamboley, but my friends call me Gerry.
As you might have guessed it I am French. In everyday life, I live with my dog, Luna, and cat, Selina, which are everything for me, I love to […]