In “A Raisin In The Sun”, Lorraine Hansberry sets the stage in a way for us to expect our characters to be in a spot of hardship, feeling stuck, and left wanting more. The description of the Younger’s apartment […]
True, It’s a tragic case of social norms at the time that makes everyone suffer in the end. I thought the same, about Cereno’s mental state. I found it ironic how he ended up feeling like how so many slaves must […]
Benito Cereno turns out to be a marvelous mystery novella. It also happens to shed a negative light on the practice of slavery. Whether it was intended to do so or not, I believe showed how slavery could bring […]
NICE CHOICE! A great example too; the constant in-out from first to third. How he will let other characters talk, but sometimes omnisciently explain to us what they are saying or what they are doing. Also agree […]
In Chapter 6 “Narrative”, Culler mentions the two quintessential parts to any story; plot and discourse. A plot, according to Aristotle, is to have a beginning, middle, and end. It requires a transformation of […]
Skillful indeed! I noticed that metaphors serve as conversion tools for us. We know not to take them literally, we are then forced to think of them figuratively, and in analyzing the correlations, we come to a new […]
I paid particular attention to Culler’s mention of rhetorics being seen as the element that most readers, myself included, write off as pretty, but ultimately pointless wordplay. Quote, “When poetry has been […]
I like where you went with this; and it made me think about how languagues often have slang, where the practitioners knowingly use words other than in their usual and assigned contexts and meanings. It is often […]
What caught my attention the most was actually the correlation Culler made between language and thought. Specifically, the “extreme view” that comes from the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, that states what we think is […]
I laughed when I read the “Look I’m Language” part. But it really does come off as that way. A poem or a novel is such because it meets the prerequisites that the foregrounded poem or novel has set, without it […]
I found Culler defining “literature” from the angle of it being an intertextual or a self-reflexive construct to be the most interesting. “Recent theorists have argued that works are made out of other works: made […]
1.After reading Jonathan Culler’s “What is literature and does it matter?”, I’m tempted to say that the main aspect of it all is that context is indeed key. He informs us that unlike science that has a definitive […]
Hello Chaewon! That’s all quite impressive; you certainly sound determined. I have no doubt you’ll accomplish your goals with that attitude. I’m looking forward to improving my writing with fellow students like yourself.
My name is Hector Ramos. I’m currently a PTA candidate here at LaGuardia Community College. This is my third attempt at college and my first attempt at pursuing a career that I find worth my […]