Note on our first weeks of blog posting
Here is how our posting for the first weeks of the semester works. By Tuesday, 1 October, you need to have answered one question from each of our first three weeks. (Week-three questions will appear in...
View ArticleSupernaturality in In Memoriam (a week-five question)
Show us one or two moments of interesting supernaturality in In Memoriam. How is the sense of supernaturality created, and what does it mean for or make happen in the poem when it occurs? Remembering...
View ArticleIn Memoriam, Canto XCV (95!) (a week-five question)
Return for a minute to the section of In Memoriam that we read on the first day of class, the canto that envisions a moment of contact between poetic speaker and dead friend. Identify a few words or...
View ArticleSeeing in “The Library Window” (a week-six question)
Identify a passage in “The Library Window” where vision is important. How is the experience of seeing rendered in prose, and what role does the experience have in the development of narrative? What...
View Article“The Library Window” and our other reading (a week-six question)
How can we relate Oliphant’s “Library Window” to our other reading and to our discussions in the course so far? Show us a passage from the story that resonates with a text — whether one of our...
View ArticleInterior Design and the Time Traveller (a week-seven question)
What is it like in the Time Traveller’s home, and what does Wells’s representation (through his narrator) of this domestic interior suggest about how we are to understand the Time Traveller and his...
View ArticleThe Time Traveller as Theorist
Identify a passage or two in which the Time Traveller theorizes about the world of the future he encounters. Tell us what he is trying to explain (and where the passage is), and then consider these...
View Article*Using* a secondary source (a week-eight question)
Post here a sentence (or two) in which you draw a connection between a secondary source and a primary text. Quote directly from your secondary source (and give a parenthetical page-number citation) as...
View ArticleSome sources on gender and the Victorian world
Here are some sources I (Prof. Drury!) found. If you found a useful source, please add it here in a “comment”! Author: Griffin, Ben. Title: The politics of gender in Victorian Britain : masculinity,...
View ArticleSome sources for Stevenson’s Strange Case
Here are some sources on Stevenson’s Strange Case. (These are *not* in impeccable MLA format in this blog display, and the page range is missing for the last article.) Remember that the back of your...
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