Tag: literature
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Reading in Print or on a Screen
A friend was good enough to send me a link to a lengthy paper on literary reading on paper versus on a screen. The Digitization of Literary Reading, by A Mangen, points out quite correctly that the transition between paper books as we know them and digital reading methods is no different than the changes…
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It’s all Literature
From the Encyclopedia Brittanica: “Deriving from the Latin littera, “a letter of the alphabet,” literature is first and foremost humankind’s entire body of writing; after that it is the body of writing belonging to a given language or people; then it is individual pieces of writing.” It is only within that broad generalization that we see…
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The Garden Of Love
Without metaphor, our language and literature would be pale shadows of themselves. For class, we had to “remediate” a metaphor, which was to manipulate an assigned text into a different media, and then present it in public. We were assigned William Blake’s poem “The Garden of Love” and chose to create an image to represent…
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Lit-er-achure
My post for Mad Genius Club is up! What would you expect from a College-level Literature course? And how are you working to subvert the growing aversion to reading? Find out there, as I muse on the seeming demise of words and “works of length.”
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Free Fantasy Story
From today, through Friday, “The Dwarf’s Dryad” will be available free on Amazon! If you like fantasy, stories with a little romance, and a lot of intrigue, check this tale out. After all, it’s free, what do you have to lose? Don’t forget, after you read it, if you liked it, tip the author with…
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Reactions to a Story
This is a bit of my homework for a class I am taking, Comp. & Lit. A story was read aloud to us in class, and these are my reactions, both as I heard it, and after a day of musing on it, with the three questions I will be turning in as homework. I…
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Friday Review: Go West!
First, the sequel to Take the Star Road, last week’s review, is out! I haven’t started to read it yet, but I’m sure I will enjoy it just as much as the last book. Peter Grant also reviewed Vulcan’s Kittens, an unexpected pleasure for me, as I hadn’t anticipated he would want to read it,…