(Week 16) End of the semester

I have really enjoyed this class and doing this blog. I plan on keeping it and adding to it what I read in the future. It has been an interesting class full of great discussions! I hope Dr. Hoc. and all my fellow classmates have a wonderful summer!!!


For Week 17----Good luck on finals everyone:)

(Week 15) More Mrs. Dalloway

The questions asked for Week 15 on Moodle where very interesting ones and dealt a lot with the psychology of the novel. I didn't realize how much psychology is emphasized until I answered those questions. What makes the novel psychological is the incorporation of Woolf's own life through many of the characters. I think this really heightens the stream of consciousness aspect!

(Week 14) Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Dalloway

Since I did Virginia and Leonard Woolf for my website, I did a bit more research on her. I enjoyed sharing my knowledge to other students; many of them didn't realize that Mrs. Dalloway was based on events in Woolf's life! And did she have an interesting life!!!

(Here's my website if anyone's interested:
http://www.geocities.com/soonerlady85/
marriedauthors.html)

One thing I like about Woolf, her style of writing and Mrs. Dalloway is her use of stream of consciousness. I love how authors reveal what characters are thinking, it is so very real!
*note in this image of the book, Mrs. Dalloway, who the publisher is...Hogarth Press. This was created by Virginia and Leonard Woolf!!! Just an interesting fact:)

(Week 13) James Joyce

I had a little trouble with James Joyce "The Dead." I enjoyed reading it but trying to understand what the author was intending was difficult. I thought the questions the class was to answer on Moodle helped dive into the story deeper. The comments from other students showed me more to the story.

(Week 12) Eliot and Pound

In my American Lit. class we discusses the relationship between T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. I didn't think much of it until I read Eliot's The Waste Land which Eliot dedicated it to Pound- "il miglior fabbro"-the better craftsman. I researched more about The Waste land and found that Eliot had shown Pound the first draft. Upon Pound's suggestions Eliot edited much of the poem, (I also learned Eliot's wife helped edit the poem)and mentored him. Even though there are many aspects that are different between the two's writing, but readers can see how each one helped and influenced one another.

(Week 11) Spring Break

For spring break I was able to go to Santa Fe!!! It was a lot of fun and I got to see so many wonderful places and eat at so many delicious resaturates! The weather was wonderful the entire time! I stayed at the Loretto Hotel which is connected to the famous Loretto Church. That staircase is truly amazing!