Category Archives: LITERATURE

NEW MEDIA & LITERATURE: Writing for New Media – The Classics?

Posted on May 27, 2006 by Susan

Well, either none of my readers are into new media or those who may be chose to giggle in secret. I was doing just fine with this book by Andrew Bonime and Ken Pohlmann, breezing through the basic introduction and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: McCullers’The Heart… – Technique

Posted on May 27, 2006 by susan

First off, let me say that McCullers is at least a thousand times the writer I could ever be.  Then, because I cannot help but read as a writer, let me say that there  are some elements of writing in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & LITERATURE: Writing for New Media – The Talmud

Posted on May 26, 2006 by Susan

I picked this up at the last book sale and started going through the first few pages this evening to diversify my reading of novels and philosophy.  The beginning is much of what was presented in the New Media course … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: McCullers’ The Heart… – Social Statement

Posted on May 26, 2006 by susan

While it is debatable as to exactly what the event or situation need be, most of the best novels go beyond just the lives of their characters to include some more important question of interest to society.  McCullers has the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: A Visual Story

Posted on May 25, 2006 by Susan

Have been working on nothing but an art installation for the past several days.  One hundred and sixty seven tiny 3 x 3 inch square of various colors and sizes with tiny mats (unfortunately, since this is the math and … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Soon. Soon.

Posted on May 25, 2006 by Susan

Antsy for a dose of McCarthy; know it will rejuvenate me just as Willie and Waylon have sent the blood racing and the imagination bouncing off the convolutions of my brain.  Don’t know why I’d shut them out so long; … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & WRITING: McCullers’ The Heart… – Description in a Single Word

Posted on May 23, 2006 by susan

Carson McCullers has a way with words.  I still tend to believe that the above is where the natural talent displays itself, and the skill is learned through study and reading.  In this novel, her first, there is an obvious … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: McCullers’ The Heart… – Awesome: Character-Driven

Posted on May 22, 2006 by susan

I am well on my way to being awed and intimidated by McCullers’ writing.  This is one author I do want to know more about; natural talent? study of writing?  a reader? an observer? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: McCullers’ The Heart… – Conflict

Posted on May 21, 2006 by susan

The tension that arose in the reader’s mind for the party to go well for Mick, given the knowledge of her character and her tendency to not quite fit in with her peers, does come about when the boys and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Ethics Theory and Practice – Terms

Posted on May 20, 2006 by susan

I am enjoying this book though I’m taking it slow.  Just to understand and relate to something and find the correct term, such as the difference between cultural relativism (different cultures have completely different beliefs about morality) and ethical relativism … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: McCullers’ The Heart – Tension Through Character

Posted on May 19, 2006 by susan

During the first week she walked up and down the halls by herself and thought about this.  She planned about being with some bunch almost as much as the music.  Those two ideas were in her head all the time.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Ethics Theory and Practice – Comprehension

Posted on May 18, 2006 by susan

It don’t take much lately to make me feel even a tad bit better about myself and this was my boost for the day:  In Ethics, the first essay presented is Plato’s Crito, which I just read last month on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: A Bit of History

Posted on May 18, 2006 by Susan

Nice rundown on the base of interactive children’s books by if.books complete with pictures to call up memories to help us understand direction of the written word. I’d never had the opportunity between generations to come across the My Adventure … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Ethics Theory and Practice – Up Now

Posted on May 17, 2006 by susan

As with my last selection of Carson McCullers, something drew me into picking up Ethics, Theory and Practice by M. Velasquez and C. Rostankowski and opening to the first page.  From there, drawn into this textbook by the story given … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Acquisitions

Posted on May 17, 2006 by Susan

Well, I may never be a writer, but I’ll be one helluva reader!  Went to the Harwinton Library Book Sale, hot from my success at our Burlington sale a few weeks past, but must say that I am a bit … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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