Comments for axa7572's blog http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572 Just another Maverick Blogs weblog Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:19:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Blog #12 – Achebe & the English Language. by Kim Sasser http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/2012/11/29/blog-12-achebe-the-english-language/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Kim Sasser Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:19:56 +0000 http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/?p=34#comment-353 As I described in class, I see Achebe's position as optimistic pragmatism. He's realistic about the causes of English language in Africa, as well as other effects of colonization, yet sees the potential benefits. Perhaps that optimism has to do with the proximity between Nigerian independence and the date this essay was written (w/in a few years of each other). As I described in class, I see Achebe’s position as optimistic pragmatism. He’s realistic about the causes of English language in Africa, as well as other effects of colonization, yet sees the potential benefits. Perhaps that optimism has to do with the proximity between Nigerian independence and the date this essay was written (w/in a few years of each other).

]]> Comment on Blog #11 – Achebe and Elemnts of Time and Space by Kim Sasser http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/2012/11/22/blog-11-achebe-and-elemnts-of-time-and-space/comment-page-1/#comment-352 Kim Sasser Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:17:13 +0000 http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/?p=32#comment-352 I, too, find it intriguing to consider TFA's relationship to realism simply because of the way it differs ideologically from the kind of Enlightenment realism described by Weinstein. We're off Weinstein's grid with this novel, yet, at the same, time, the text does entail many characteristic features of realism, as you detail so well. I, too, find it intriguing to consider TFA’s relationship to realism simply because of the way it differs ideologically from the kind of Enlightenment realism described by Weinstein. We’re off Weinstein’s grid with this novel, yet, at the same, time, the text does entail many characteristic features of realism, as you detail so well.

]]> Comment on Blog #10 – Magical Realism in “Light is Like Water” by Kim Sasser http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/2012/11/15/blog-10-magical-realism-in-light-is-like-water/comment-page-1/#comment-351 Kim Sasser Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:13:10 +0000 http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/?p=29#comment-351 There is a critic who uses GM and Rushdie for what he calls a "prototype" definition - these two authors' works define the mode for him. Everyone else's work is judged according to theirs. There is a critic who uses GM and Rushdie for what he calls a “prototype” definition – these two authors’ works define the mode for him. Everyone else’s work is judged according to theirs.

]]> Comment on Blog #9 – Calvino & Postmodernism by Kim Sasser http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/2012/11/01/blog-9-borges-postmodernism/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Kim Sasser Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:59:53 +0000 http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/?p=25#comment-195 Postmodernism can be mind-boggling sometimes! You pick up on a fascinating feature - the frame tale and the disjunction b/t the interlocutors of the external narrative. As you'll read in Weinstein, the critic argues that this kind of radical and unstable subjectivity you describe contrasts with postcolonial fiction, which places importance on subjectivity - it needs and relies upon a degree of stable subjectivity. Let me know your thoughts (do you agree?) after you read it. Postmodernism can be mind-boggling sometimes!

You pick up on a fascinating feature – the frame tale and the disjunction b/t the interlocutors of the external narrative. As you’ll read in Weinstein, the critic argues that this kind of radical and unstable subjectivity you describe contrasts with postcolonial fiction, which places importance on subjectivity – it needs and relies upon a degree of stable subjectivity. Let me know your thoughts (do you agree?) after you read it.

]]> Comment on Blog #8 – Victorian Ideals in Heart of Darkness by Kim Sasser http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/2012/10/25/blog-8-victorian-ideals-in-heart-of-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Kim Sasser Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:54:11 +0000 http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/?p=23#comment-194 I'm reminded of the snippet from the text by Leopold II of Belgium I showed to the class wherein he also calls upon the civilizing mission to prop up his exploitation of the Congo. I’m reminded of the snippet from the text by Leopold II of Belgium I showed to the class wherein he also calls upon the civilizing mission to prop up his exploitation of the Congo.

]]> Comment on Blog #7 – Gregor letting go. by Kim Sasser http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/2012/10/18/blog-7-gregor-letting-go/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Kim Sasser Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:12:43 +0000 http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/?p=21#comment-148 You refer to what I find to be one of the most pitiful elements of this narrative -- that even after the way he's been treated by his family, Gregor still feels guilty for being a burden to them. You refer to what I find to be one of the most pitiful elements of this narrative — that even after the way he’s been treated by his family, Gregor still feels guilty for being a burden to them.

]]> Comment on Class Blog #6 – Modernity by Kim Sasser http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/2012/10/11/class-blog-6-modernity/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Kim Sasser Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:32:10 +0000 http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/?p=19#comment-121 I wonder how we might see the dislocation among modernist space/time/subject as implicitly arguing with the idea of progress, even its possibility? How does a Gregor Samsa's complete inability to master space and objects/others call this ideal in to question, for example. In this light, we see modernists as opposing modernity/modernization. I wonder how we might see the dislocation among modernist space/time/subject as implicitly arguing with the idea of progress, even its possibility? How does a Gregor Samsa’s complete inability to master space and objects/others call this ideal in to question, for example. In this light, we see modernists as opposing modernity/modernization.

]]> Comment on Class Blog #5 – A Doll’s House: Genre. by Kim Sasser http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/2012/10/04/class-blog-5-a-dolls-house-genre/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Kim Sasser Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:01:45 +0000 http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/?p=15#comment-97 If we read Nora as better off, at the end of the play, than she was when it began, are there other ways we might understand ADH as a tragedy, as Ibsen identified it? If we read Nora as better off, at the end of the play, than she was when it began, are there other ways we might understand ADH as a tragedy, as Ibsen identified it?

]]> Comment on Class Blog #4 – Desiree’s Baby: The Importance of Historical Context by Kim Sasser http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/2012/09/27/class-blog-4-desirees-baby-the-importance-of-historical-context/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Kim Sasser Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:12:28 +0000 http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/?p=11#comment-72 Great argument here. A little digging in to the reception history of this piece would be fascinating...a final paper project? Great argument here. A little digging in to the reception history of this piece would be fascinating…a final paper project?

]]> Comment on Class Blog #3 – Rousseau: From Enlightenment to Romanticism by Kim Sasser http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/2012/09/20/class-blog-3-rousseau-from-enlightenment-to-romanticism/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Kim Sasser Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:24:27 +0000 http://blog.uta.edu/~axa7572/?p=9#comment-11 I smell a (strong!) final paper in the works! Cogent argument here, Amad. Well done. I smell a (strong!) final paper in the works!

Cogent argument here, Amad. Well done.

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