Though I’m sure there are some that would argue me on this one, I give things the benefit of the doubt probably more than I should. I swear this to be true. Experiences, for example. I have tried escargot and head cheese and caviar, because why should we prejudice these any more than pork or [...]
Posts Tagged ‘shakespeare’
Drinking the Kool-aid
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged academia, caviar, church, escargot, head cheese, hell, Landmark Education, philosophy, Plato, religion, self-help, shakespeare, Star Trek, The Love Guru, work on December 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Battle of the Elizabeths: Bennett v. Lemon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cultural theory, Disney, feminism, jane austen, movies, nancy drew, Narnia, sci fi, shakespeare, superheroes, tv on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just wrote an entire note about how modern culture fosters relatively no positive female role models…and then I accidentally deleted it all. I’m not going to rant it again but I’ll give you the short version:
Boys are taught to band together; girls see each other as competition for the sparse female spots within the [...]
Say it with me: Am-bi-guity!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ambiguity, chaucer, cultural theory, improv, jon stewart, language, mullets, school, shakespeare, stephen colbert on March 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is it just me, or does every semester seem to take on its own unique personality or theme, regardless of whatever classes one happens to be taking? No matter what the content, it always seems like the same issues are at stake, and every term it changes. I realize of course that what’s happening is [...]
Romeo and Juliet Revisited
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, language, romeo and juliet, shakespeare on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hate Tuesdays today; some weeks I can scrounge up an adequate space filler to occupy myself between morning and afternoon lectures, but alas, today that would mean working on my Shakespeare seminar, and I don’t feel quite ready to do that yet.
It feels odd writing about Romeo & Juliet in grad school; the last [...]
On Literature…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, chaucer, cultural theory, freddy and fredricka, malcolm lowry, middle english, on beauty, shakespeare, the gum thief on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Between feeling ill and having no pressing assignments due, I have during the last few days, found significant time to read books that are neither from 14th Century Britain, photocopied from various theory anthologies, or by Malcolm Lowry.
I’m going to pause for a few lines to stew in the comfort of that last sentence.
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Breathe out, [...]
