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The Real Thing
I had completed the GenEd requirements and was beginning the serious study of literature. I cannot pass my mind back far enough to remember the exact texts that we were reading and studying, but I do remember that they all seemed to ...
Confusion Creates Clarity
After reading Sheridan’s Blau’s The Literature Workshop, the very first chapter intrigued me when he stated, “confusion often represents an advanced state of understanding” (21). Soon after, I understood the genius of this principle. ...
Quote of the Day: On Philippine Literature of the Fantastic
from the Introduction to Philippine Speculative Fiction III, edited by Dean Francis Alfar & Nikki Alfar:. The Philippines is no stranger to the fantastic. Modern fantasy has its roots in folklore, epics, myths and legends of the ...
Biting in
In a similar incident, I was talking with another writer in the Teaching of Writing and Literature program who was curious about the teaching of literature class. She was surprised when I said literature classes were often my favorite ...
Add TRIP to your website
Great news, the new TRIP Database search boxes have been deployed. These search boxes consist of a few lines of HTML which can be embedded into your website, blog etc. These allow users of your site to search TRIP from within your site ...
Well…duh!
I share many of Blau’s takes on the teaching of literature and it would seem many of yours judging on the posts that I have read. Alright, I’m going to apologize ahead of time because I cannot remember who said what in thier posts. ...
Fame Will Tell Chapter 3 Part 8
“Hey, Archie! Nice suit! You never do give the women a break, do you?” That’s Harry. Big talker, and smooth talker. I took his 44 extra-long cashmere overcoat and hung it on the rack, along with his silk scarf. “I try not to,” I said. ...
One of These Things is Not Like The Other
Science and art have not always been as diametrically opposed as they seem to be today. We are all too familiar with the polymaths of the Italian renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, and the like, that not only engaged ...
This Bean Looks Just Like The Leader!
It’s fascinating, the dichotomy presented by contrasting Wilner and Blau (while acknowledging Blau’s caveat that compare-and-contrast assignments are simplistic and nigh-worthless). Several of Wilner’s students refused to read certain ...
The sacred cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky / Jeremy Mark Robinson
PN 1998.3 T36R63 2006.