I had school last night...

IminWonderland · 01-24-2007, 12:49 AM

And I can't believe how awesome my semester is going to be...

I'm taking Modern Critical Theory....and although I can explain each of those words indivudually, the three of them together like that seems complicated. The Professor assured us, that although we were not graduate students, this would be a Grad level class, and that "this will be the hardest class you've ever taken." So after everyone pissed themselves and he assigned the first night's readings, I dove in last night and was up until 2 a.m. reading Freud and Marx. The class is philisophical in nature, and while I read it, I found myself finding for the first time, what it has been that I have been doing and interpreting literature for the past several years. Looking through the text and seeing the psychoanalytical significances, the structuralist perspective of interpretation, and looking at the same text from multiple angles, and then with all of those angles trying to fight out how they can co-exist, how they cancel each other out, and why the interpretations are even availible to myself. The professor told us "Most of you, will not get this material. It will be dense, it will be profound, it will madden you, and it will make you completely confused, but there is that small percentage of people, and they are rare, they read this and they get it. They get it all." I get it. If I turn out to be one of those rare people, it sure will explain what my real education has been about. I feel like this class is going to define for me if I am as intelligent as I think I want to be.

My second class is just as enchanting as the first...Contemporary Poetry. Some of the authors we will be reading have such fantastic works, that I can hardly stand waiting for the first real week of class...next week we will be covering Elizabeth Bishop...

One Art

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three beloved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

-- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) a disaster.

Elizabeth Bishop

This semester is going to KICK ASS.

7960 · 01-24-2007, 12:59 AM

..........too few semicolons to be graduate level work.

IminWonderland · 01-24-2007, 01:09 AM

Originally Posted by 7960

..........too few semicolons to be graduate level work.

Can't say I generally use them anymore. I believe the semi-colon is just a cop out for not being able to complete a concrete idea without decoration. I'd rather just make statements.

ballz2wallz · 01-24-2007, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by IminWonderland

I believe the semi-colon is just a cop out for not being able to complete a concrete idea without decoration.

What; do you mean.

7960 · 01-24-2007, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by ballz2wallz

What; do you mean.

what do ronald reagan and a typewriter have in common?

IminWonderland · 01-24-2007, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by ballz2wallz

What; do you mean.

See, even when I read that the semi-colon looks like clutter.

Grammar isn't just function, it's art too.

curlyque221 · 01-24-2007, 10:28 PM

Good for you. There is something refreshing hearing about someone who really appreciates going to school and learning something.

I am against those who go to school just to go to school.

I hope your semester will be as good as it sounds.

avsp · 01-25-2007, 09:57 AM

Originally Posted by IminWonderland

See, even when I read that the semi-colon looks like clutter.

Grammar isn't just function, it's art too.

Indeed,
Not My Type I
Not My Type II
Not My Type III
Not My Type IV

..., well, ok, its more punctuation marks, characters & fonts than' grammar' but it was too goood an opportunity to miss

IminWonderland · 01-25-2007, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by avsp

Indeed,
Not My Type I
Not My Type II
Not My Type III
Not My Type IV

..., well, ok, its more punctuation marks, characters & fonts than' grammar' but it was too goood an opportunity to miss

That was so incredibley cool.

See...Grammar is art.

Writing is art.

avsp · 01-25-2007, 11:00 AM

Isnt the syllabus, (textual analysis of Marx AND Freud) a lot of work for just one term? Good job you're into that kind of thing.

As for semi-colons, ..., I can't help noticing that you lot are using perfectly adequate but nevertheless rather nasty mechanically produced sep ones, ..., over here we've still have access to lush fresh naturally grown ones, ..., here! have some ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;. Pretty arent they? Use them wisely now.

Perhaps one day I'll use the families ancient tilda that dates back to pre-colonial war times, ..., but its for special occasions only I'm afraid

IminWonderland · 01-26-2007, 02:44 AM

Originally Posted by avsp

Isnt the syllabus, (textual analysis of Marx AND Freud) a lot of work for just one term? Good job you're into that kind of thing.

As for semi-colons, ..., I can't help noticing that you lot are using perfectly adequate but nevertheless rather nasty mechanically produced sep ones, ..., over here we've still have access to lush fresh naturally grown ones, ..., here! have some ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;. Pretty arent they? Use them wisely now.

Perhaps one day I'll use the families ancient tilda that dates back to pre-colonial war times, ..., but its for special occasions only I'm afraid

What I am reading of Marx and Freud aren't their texts but more like Academic Essays on them and their precursor to Formalism.

T.S. Eliot, Cleanth Brooks, Northrup Frye, Derrida, Lacan, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Foucault...

And then we will also be discussing Feminismk New Historicism, Culture Studies, and we will be discussing "The Canon" which I can't wait for, it's a discussion on why the collective we thinks a certain collection of books is relevant for the time, and why certain books are taught.

Lastly we'll be talking about Harold Bloom from Yale. My professor believes that in 50 years he will be the new Marx or something, or that he will be as relevant.

I think when they are in a row....

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

They look like a cute picket fence.

And these:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Those look like ocean waves.

Stylerod · 01-26-2007, 04:17 PM

Cool you are getting into what you like. But what career path with this get you exactly?

IminWonderland · 01-26-2007, 11:41 PM

Originally Posted by Stylerod

Cool you are getting into what you like. But what career path with this get you exactly?

Your sentence made my head spin.

Career path?

Who knows. They say the average adult changes "careers" eight times in their life time.

I may start teaching High School English this Fall in Arizona depending on the credentialing factor.

The nice thing about a BA in english is that it certifies that I can read, write, and orate my ideas clearly. I can go into several career paths, it's a pretty broad degree.

The Ultimate dream is to write, but writers are poor and I, like Sylvia Plath, have two mouths to feed, and I am sort of in my Husband's shadow as far as career options go. I can only do what my role as a wife and Mother allow. I have to take a job for practical reasons, instead of following what I ultimatley want to do. I am hoping to pick up my writing once we move.

Sylvia Plath used to get up two hours before her kids woke up to write. She wrote much of her contemporary work in the wee hours of the morning.