After I read the play “a raisin in the sun” by Hansberry, I noticed that Hansberry have used many stage directions to connect the plots with the characters, which enables readers to learn about the members of the […]

Herman Melville depicted a failed slave revolt that happened aboard the San Dominick. The three main characters in this novella are Babo, the leader of the slave revolt, Benito Cereno, the controlled Spanish […]

After reading chapter 6, I gain a better understanding about events, plot and discourse of a story. Events are shaped into plot to develop the story. The plot is the basic element of stories, which is presented by […]

In Chapter 5 of Literary Theory, Culler talked about the “rhetoric figures”, “genres”, “poetry as word and act”, “the extravagance of lyric”, “rhythmic words” and “interpreting the poems”. The rhetoric part left […]

From the chapter “Literature, Meaning, and Interpretation”, one of the ideas that strikes me as interesting regarding the relationship between language and meaning is the method of reading literature works, whi […]

In my opinion, the most interesting and useful angle of defining “literature” is its fictionality. In this chapter, when explaining “what is  literature”, Culler took the opening sentence of a book as an example, […]

After reading the chapter “what is literature and does it matter” written by Jonathan Culler, in my opinion, the most important aspect of this section is the diversity of the literature. As Culler talked about […]

My name is Shumin Ma. I came to the United Stated from China last year. This is my second semester in LAGCC. My major is Radiologic Technology (pre-candidacy). In my spare time, i enjoy watching travel vlogs on […]