Category Archives: LITERATURE

LITERATURE & WRITING: Voice

Posted on February 3, 2004 by susan

We’ve had many long discussions here on the voice of an author and how it is indelibly marked within one’s writing style. While pure fiction does not relate personal episodes of the writer’s life, the experience must exist as a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Hurston’s “The Gilded Six-Bits” Part I

Posted on February 3, 2004 by susan

It’s taken me forever to write an essay on this story by Zora Neale Hurston, because something about it bothered me—not bad-bothered, good-bothered, and it finally came to me late last night: The story is an updated version of Adam … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Short Stories

Posted on January 25, 2004 by Susan

Just pulled out Ann Charters’ The Story and Its Writer, the textbook used in my last Contemporary Fiction course as one of the easiest spots to dive right in and start learning to read and write. I admit, I chose … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & WRITING: Submissions

Posted on January 24, 2004 by Susan

It’s been a long time since I’ve submitted anything for publication, but I just finished up and submitted “Sad Endings” to Written Impressions as a Parody of Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings” which I started here on Spinning back in October. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: How to Read It

Posted on January 23, 2004 by Susan

There’s an excellent post on Jerz’s Literacy Log regarding a student’s honest fears regarding learning how to dig deeper into literature as one reads. I do hope that he continues his thoughts on this, because I know it was personally … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Mixed Media

Posted on January 7, 2004 by Susan

Saw The Terminator for the first time on TV last night. Boy, Arnold looked silly. Lotsa silly things in the movie actually, and at the famous phrase, “A’ll be back” I turned to my husband and said, “That’s it?” Of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Bad Writing

Posted on January 4, 2004 by Susan

Some of you may be aware of the The Bulwer-Lytton Website, “Where WWW means Wretched Writers Welcome” and their annual Fiction Contest which celebrates the worst opening sentence of a story. I came across it and found it hilarious, especially … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: View of the Media

Posted on January 3, 2004 by Susan

The more English Literature courses I take, the more it enhances as well as wrecks my vision. Taught now to automatically see beneath the surface while following the story, the details are sometimes too much to bear. I’m sure I’ve … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Playwright Eugene O’Neil

Posted on December 27, 2003 by Susan

Another shameless steal from Jerz’s Literacy Log, I lead you to the TSL Education site for the Times Literary Supplement and Tony Kushner’s interesting piece on Eugene O’Neil. One of the main points I took from this was what the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Nothing Lately

Posted on December 15, 2003 by Susan

I have not abandoned my posts on literature, nor on interactive fiction; I just have not been able to read or play anything much lately. Books in every room stare back at me accusingly, but I have whispered, “January. In … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: John Cheever’s The Swimmer

Posted on December 10, 2003 by susan

Literature Students, listen up! I feel compelled to warn you that at this point, there have been hundreds of hits on my previous postings regarding Cheever’s wonderful short story, The Swimmer. You can quote from these entries, but please, do … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING & LITERATURE

Posted on December 10, 2003 by Susan

In a previous post I mentioned that Google, Yahoo, etc. searches have found my little comments on some short stories I’ve been reading lately, and that my blog hits were hitting the ceiling from these alone. While I may have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Posted on December 4, 2003 by susan

I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but I can’t seem to read even a four and a half page short story without a notebook handy to scribble in. Ursula K. Le Guin’s story … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Isabel Allende’s And of Clay Are We Created

Posted on December 2, 2003 by susan

In class discussion today of this short story of a young girl trapped by a volcanic landslide and a reporter who stays three days by her side, there was one of those moments when the lightbulb glows above your head … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Short Stories

Posted on December 1, 2003 by Susan

Although it seems I don’t have much time to read anymore, I have found through a Contemporary Fiction course that the short story is an excellent way for me to keep up. Until two years ago, I never really bothered … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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