Daily Archives: March 23, 2011

Since having our discussion in class on Tuesday and reading the assignment for Thurday, history- or the study of history, or the study of the study of history (basically epistemology)- has become a complex topic. There are two extremes of … Continue reading →

I was a little bit confused by the amount of time that we spent talking about issues of space, in comparison to the amount of time we spent on the section that brought up the marketing techniques used by shoe … Continue reading →

All this talk of Historicism reminds me of being 12 and reading Edgar Allen Poe. My parents had bought me a huge volume of his collected works for my birthday, and I was instantly hooked. I read and re-read “A … Continue reading →

I thoroughly enjoyed the discussion of history the other day, mostly because of how heavily it focused on the fact that so much of history is based upon interpretation–not simply the interpretation of individuals, but the interpretations of an entire … Continue reading →

             This week is deemed history week. We are focusing on history in general as well as history in a literary sense. The Theory Toolbox took a specific look at history as a whole. Like literature, history tells a story. … Continue reading →

After our discussion on Tuesday about History and my reading in the Bedford, I am looking forward to studying the Wife of Bath through a historicist approach. As I have slowly learned to appreciate a more formalist approach in criticism, … Continue reading →

I went to visit the Classics department today to declare a Latin minor when I noticed that the door to the office of my Latin professor from last semester was open. I decided to pay him a visit and we … Continue reading →

Last semester, while still a history major, I took the department’s equivalent to this class, History 299: The Historian’s Craft. This class was essentially an overview of the techniques of studying history and the difficulties it presents. Our professor, Dr. … Continue reading →

One of the working questions in the space/time chapter mentions the “Global village” theory, where the world would feel like a more connected place as advances where made in communication. I think that this can be seen in attributed of … Continue reading →

I have been working on my research for our annotated bibliography.  My topic is how the theme of the American dream as presented in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” is received throughout time since its publication.  I really took … Continue reading →