Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840. Traveller Looking Over the Sea of Fog, Wanderer Above the Sea of Mist, Wanderer Above the Mists. c.1818. Ah yes, there’s nothing better then the feeling that you’ve joined the club. My friend, who is an English grad student here, hosted a Halloween party last month where the theme was to… Read More How was I suppose to read Hemingway?

I’m not going to pretend I’ve ever cracked open a Vogue magazine, but Madonna is now stuck in my head. Among being impressed with all of the different subjects to mess around with in the digital humanities, I like that these tools can paint a larger picture (figuratively and literally).  The Vogue production team can take a look at… Read More Strike the Pose

The World’s Wife.  What can you say? This post is really just my musings and new impressions of the second of Duffy’s poetry collections in our reading que.  I fully expect most of them to change and evolve as we continue to discuss this. -While Standing Female Nude’s collection of poems are threaded together loosely in… Read More First Impressions of The World’s Wife

I love it when concepts currently studied in another class begin to make reappearances in others.  Recently, in one of my english classes we studied a fairy tale spin-off of Beauty and the Beast titled The Tiger’s Bride by Angela Carter.  It follows similar suite to Beauty and the Beast.  A young woman is lost in a gambling… Read More Standing Female-*runs away*

As I read Franco Moretti’s essay on trees and evolutionary theory a shadow of a thought crossed my mind that perhaps there are thousands of novels that have been lost to time.  I work in the library and it’s pretty astonishing how many books are categorized and kept there.  If a person were to read… Read More Ode to the Books that have Survived

Okay DIGHT 215, you got me. It’s been an interesting process trying to reach the end of Mrs. Dalloway and I’m happy to report a certain change of heart has taken place.  Like how most things are in life, the reading process has been like a marathon, and the person I was at the beginning… Read More A Change of Heart

I struggle forming my impressions of characters mid-story whether it be in a book or a movie.  I also finding myself struggling really hard with forming an opinion of Mrs. Dalloway (the book too while I’m at it) and I’m interested to see where she and the plot goes. “Mrs. Dalloway” is unlike most novels… Read More Mrs. Lighthouse