Miscellaneous Me
iambarr | November 23, 2009
Fear and Confusion
The defining characteristic of metafiction is that the text must self-consciously acknowledge the conventions involved in the fiction-writing process. In Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth not only calls attention to general literary conventions, he blatantly exposes them within his own story, often defining them immediately before defying them. Two of the [...]
iambarr | November 22, 2009
Barth – “Lost in the Funhouse”
The Assignment: Show how it operates as metafiction
The significant way Barth experiments with familiar narrative conventions to comment on the story-writing process.
How do-
-structure
-point of view
-style
operate as vehicles for what Barth wants to communicate about the world?
Do they comment on or critique aspects of contemporary culture?
Outline
I. Introduction
A. Define terms – metafiction [...]
iambarr | November 21, 2009
Outline
I. Introduction
A. Define terms – metafiction (fiction about fiction), postmodernism (a reworking or subversion of past conventions)
B. Present major arguments
C. State thesis – In writing a story about the writing of a story, Barth has created a classic work of metafiction.
II. Definition and defiance of convention – Barth defines many of the conventions of storytelling [...]
iambarr | November 21, 2009
Barth – “Lost in the Funhouse”
The Assignment: Show how it operates as metafiction
The significant way Barth experiments with familiar narrative conventions to comment on the story-writing process.
How do-
-structure
-point of view
-style
operate as vehicles for what Barth wants to communicate about the world?
Do they comment on or critique aspects of contemporary culture?
Outline
I. introduction
A. define terms – metafiction, [...]
iambarr | May 14, 2009
Worried and stressed because I can’t work hard enough or fast enough to overcome the huge mountain of work I’ve got in front of me. How (and why) do I do this? I’m in front of an avalanche and instead of working to get out from beneath it, I’m taking time to stop and explain [...]
iambarr | May 9, 2009
Question for Final Paper (Wide Sargasso Sea)
Comparison of Chirstophine and Antoinette as native women. How are they different? What makes them Different? What are their histories? Difference between native and creole? Discuss the conclusion of the two identities.
Outline / Notes
Section 1 – discussion of Antoinette
Section 2 – discussion of Christophine
Section 3 – Similarities
Section 4 – [...]
iambarr | April 19, 2009
The Prompt:
Take a few examples and descriptions from the book Heart of Darkness to illustrate how Conrad’s depictions of the Congo and its inhabitants (natives) seemed very removed from “civilization” and do not deserve to be considered equal to Europe. Use Said and apply the theories. 7-8 pages.
In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad portrays the [...]
iambarr | April 12, 2009
The Prompt:
Take a few examples and descriptions from the book Heart of Darkness to illustrate how Conrad’s depictions of the Congo and its inhabitants (natives) seemed very removed from “civilization” and do not deserve to be considered equal to Europe. Use Said and apply the theories. 7-8 pages.
boiler in the grass (p.15)
failure to implement “progress” [...]
iambarr | April 12, 2009
The Prompt:
iambarr | November 10, 2008
Chris Barr
11-6-8
ENG 245
Professor Bertram
Gender Roles in the Sonnet Tradition:
An Analysis of Millay
Millay’s sonnet, “I Dreamed I moved through Elysian Fields”, is a moving poem about the speaker’s involvement in an erotic relationship and the similarity of that relationship to several prominent Greek myths. Her appropriation of the sonnet in order to reverse gender roles characterizes [...]
