The American Lit Wayback Machine
Jun. 12th, 2013 12:00 am[sticky]
This quarter, I'm taking a course called "Masterworks of American Literature." For this course, there is a final project that can take almost any form. Two of the professor's suggestions are: "Keep a journal of your responses to the readings, the topics, and/or the discussions" and "Keep such a journal in a blog so that others can read it and comment on your entries."
I thought it would be fun to do a variation on that -- more of a book-review blog, but dealing with these standards of American literature, instead of new books coming out. Also, since I've had a few other literature courses recently, I could go grab some of the pertinent essays and add them, as well.
The tag on these posts will be "wayback," so please feel free to filter that tag out if you're not interested in seeing them.
Once I get going, I may make a sticky post with a list of all the works. I would be EVER SO GRATEFUL if you were to share links of your own reviews of American literature, from colonial times to the present. (Yes, genre lit counts. Yes, fan lit counts. And hell, yes, diaspora lit counts. This is MY blog, goldurnit.)
This quarter, I'm taking a course called "Masterworks of American Literature." For this course, there is a final project that can take almost any form. Two of the professor's suggestions are: "Keep a journal of your responses to the readings, the topics, and/or the discussions" and "Keep such a journal in a blog so that others can read it and comment on your entries."
I thought it would be fun to do a variation on that -- more of a book-review blog, but dealing with these standards of American literature, instead of new books coming out. Also, since I've had a few other literature courses recently, I could go grab some of the pertinent essays and add them, as well.
The tag on these posts will be "wayback," so please feel free to filter that tag out if you're not interested in seeing them.
Once I get going, I may make a sticky post with a list of all the works. I would be EVER SO GRATEFUL if you were to share links of your own reviews of American literature, from colonial times to the present. (Yes, genre lit counts. Yes, fan lit counts. And hell, yes, diaspora lit counts. This is MY blog, goldurnit.)