by Lee | May 27, 2021 | ENG-355 Blog
This week’s focus is on global literature, literature that shows the blending of two cultural identities. This week’s examples are as follows: “The Perforated Sheet” by Salman Rushdie, a story about a man who has recently been educated in...
by Lee | May 22, 2021 | ENG-355 Blog
This week’s readings are all from post-Holocaust literature. Each of these works have a unique theme and way of story telling, but there are a few ways they all connect. The theme for this week is self identity and how it relates to others. The works we will be...
by Lee | May 15, 2021 | ENG-355 Blog
This week’s readings are full of examples of symbolism and choice. The works we will be studying this week are the following. The first is a set of two poems by Octavio Paz, called ‘I Speak of The City’ and ‘Central Park’. These two poems...
by Lee | May 7, 2021 | ENG-355 Blog
This week’s works all have a theme of identity and culture. Our first story is called “Notes of a Native Son”, by James Baldwin. In this story, the main character wrestles with his perception of his father, and how it slowly starts to become his...
by Lee | Apr 29, 2021 | ENG-355 Blog
This week’s theme is spirituality and human connection with nature and how it’s shown in Native American literature. The works used in this section are: “The Conquest of Mexico”(from the 12th book of the Florentine Codex), “The Night...
by Lee | Apr 22, 2021 | ENG-355 Blog
This week’s reading all have a theme of human connection. The first story is “Diary of a Madman” by Lu Xun, about a man suffering from delusions that everyone around him is a cannibal planning to eat him. Throughout the story, despite his delusions,...
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