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I was recently perusing the inteweb looking for books on writing and found How to Write a Lot:   A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia. I love reference books on writing as they are a enjoyable procrastination reads. I was reading some reviews on the book and found this interesting bit on AMAZON and thought I would publish it here.  Hello, my name is Renee. I am an assistant professor and a mother. I write a lot. I inherited this book from a friend who didn't get tenure. I find books on writing valuable, because even though I write a lot, there's always something to learn from others who write a lot. This book was interesting and easy to read. It was funny, and I share the author's interest in mid-century furniture (although I am not sure it is relevant to writing!). I would recommend it to people who want to read a useful text on writing productively. However, I am giving this text only three stars because the advice is rather thin, an

I recently  picked  up Ulysses and felt like I probably should read  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before fully jumping into Ulysses. My experience with Joyce before this novel was his short story “The Dead” from his collection The Dubliners. I remember absolutely enjoying “The Dead,” but like most readers, who approach Ulysses for the first time,I felt a little overwhelmed. I am a big fan of stream-of-conscious narration. Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner are two of my favorite Modernist writers. Further, as a fan of serious literature, I need to conquer Joyce at somepoint (and prepare for my intense Faulkner course next semester).  So now, onto this fine piece of literary experimentation. Joyce’s   A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  poses basic questions about the human condition. A coming-of-age story in its truest sense, Stephen Dedalus finds himself asking and pondering some life’s most trivial questions. These questions, however, were some of the most

http://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/ Here it is. Finally, My Classics Club Book List. There are several key titles missing, well that is because I have read those. I do plan to review each book and also back track and review the classics I have read. I would like to complete this list by December, 12, 2017 five years. I'm sure that many more will fall into this list. Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart Anderson, Sherwood: Winesburg, Ohio Austen, Jane: Emma Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Bellow, Saul: Herzog Bellow, Saul: The Adventures of Augie March Bellow, Saul: Henderson the Rain King Bellow, Saul: Seize the Day Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray: The Illustrated Man Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Aurora Leigh Burke, Edmund: A Philosophical Enquiry Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland Cather, Willa: A Lost Lady Cather, Willa: My Antonia Cather, Willa: Death Comes for the Archbishop Cather, Willa: Lucy Gayheart

Episetmology : the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity. From Greek: Episteme OED: Epistemological, n.   The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge. 1856   J. F. Ferrier Inst. Metaphysic 48   This section of the science is properly termed the Epistemology..It answers the general question, ‘What is Knowing and the Known?’ or more shortly, ‘What is Knowledge?’ 1883   Athenæum 20 Oct. 492/3   He divides his work into four sections, dealing with epistemology, ontology, anthropology, and ethics. This word has often come in essay relating to Blood Meridian and Episteme is often used by Micheal Foucault. Episteme : This term, which Foucault introduces in his book The Order of Things , refers to the orderly 'unconscious' structures underlying the production of scientific knowledge in a particular time and place. It is the 'epistemological field' which forms the cond

By Inenarrable "And they are dancing, the board floor slamming under the jackboots and the fiddlers grinning hideously over their canted pieces. Towering over them all is the judge and he is naked dancing, his small feet lively and quick and now in doubletime and bowing to the ladies, huge and pale and hairless, like an enormous infant. He never sleeps, he says. He says he’ll never die. He bows to the fiddlers and sashays backwards and throws back his head and laughs deep in his throat and he is a great favorite, the judge. He wafts his hat and the lunar dome of his skull passes palely under the lamps and he swings about and takes possession of one of the fiddles and he pirouettes and makes a pass, two passes, dancing and fiddling all at once. His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never

  "surrealism, n.". OED Online . June 2012. Oxford University Press. 16 June 2012.  A movement in art and literature seeking to express the subconscious mind by any of a number of different techniques, including the irrational juxtaposition of realistic images, the creation of mysterious symbols, and automatism ; art or literature produced by or reminiscent of this movement. The term surréalisme , coined by Guillaume Apollinaire, was taken over by the poet André Breton as the name of the movement, which he launched with his Manifeste du Surréalisme in 1924; his statement there of the term's meaning is given in quote 1935.  "S urrealism , pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, verbally, in writing, or by other means, the real process of thought" ( D. Gascoyne tr. A. Breton in Short Surv. Surrealism iv. 61).  Hyperrealism, n.  A style in art that attempts to reproduce highly realistic graphic representatio

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt reconstructs history by showing the reader the reciprocal effect history and literature has on each other. Greenblatt re-imagines a time when human civilization was emerging from the darkness by reaching back to the past and uncovering the creation of the Renaissance and the Humanist’s movement. What Greenblatt initially reveals is the beginning of the Early Modern Period through ancient text. This book strikes a chord for book lovers, scholars; classicist, early modernist, and even modern scholars. It conjures up a late medieval romance of digging through monasteries and hidden chambers of West’s past. This book works as a retelling of an archeological process illuminating a story that has shaped the way our modern minds think. The struggle of a secular society versus a religious society. It explores atheism, Christianity, Paganism. Blending per-Christian ideas with a dominating Roman Catholic i

 I n Walter Sullivan’s 1965 review of Cormac McCarthy’s first novel The Orchard Keeper, Sullivan claims McCarthy’s novel takes shape in “the middle of the agrarian influence” (721). This quote sends up a flare within the McCarthy community of scholars, who continue to debate Sullivan’s claims. Sullivan also acknowledges that McCarthy can be read as an author who has “had enough sense to see in the land a source of human salvation. [McCarthy] is a kind of anachronism who celebrates the traditional values in the traditional way” (721). However, many recent scholars disagree with Sullivan’s claims about the “land as a source of human salvation.” In her book Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee Period, Dianne Luce states that, “[i]t is a mistake either to confuse East Tennessee with the plantation South or to label McCarthy a latter-day Agrarian” (271). In making this comment, she also argues that The Orchard Keeper can be read “in the context of the classic Southern Agrar

Since I plan on spending the better part of this summer and semester researching and writing about this classic piece of American literature. I figured I could document my progress and for those interested in seeing a developing thesis process. Here ya go.  To begin things I will include an interview of myself by myself conducted on the 10th of June 2012. RP: Why did you choose Blood Meridian as the main focus for you Senior Thesis? RP: Hm. good question. Well, I have always been fascinated with the human species's ability to commit acts of violence when we are constantly conditioned to be good humans. However, to make it even more interesting lets include American humans--or better yet American humans in the 19th century. A lot of what is American today is based out of the 19th century and most philosophical American ideas stem from the American Romantic period and definitions of what it means to be American are defined as well by the likes of Walt Whitman, Henry