Sunday, December 7, 2008. Derrida is known as the father of Deconstruction. Recognized that writing has both advantages and disadvantages - like good and evil, you cannot have one without the other. Believed that through writing, the work can make an author present without the author being physically present. what does the author really mean? 8220;O.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008. It took all semester but I finally finished Don Quixote. I feel that even though we already finished the coursework on Don Quixote, it would be a shame not to finish the novel anyway. Just for good measure I want to make a few notes on Don Quixote. Wednesday, December 3, 2008.

Friday, December 12, 2008. The End of English 300. I have already said that I learned an unsurpassed amount this semester from Dr. Sexson, but I have also learned a lot from my fellow students. We are all here, as English major and minors, to celebrate the world of literature and of the word. And yes, I bet even dinosaurs liked to read. The End of Don Quixote.

Friday, December 12, 2008. While reading for another class, I came across a passage that stopped me in my tracks. I read over the passage many times not because it was confusing, but because it was beautiful. I had finished with that life, perhaps, and could not admit it, being stubborn or afraid, or perhaps did not know it, habit being a great binder. Wednesday, December 10, 2008.

Friday, December 12, 2008. I think you know which is me. I am going to leave the class with two of my favorite quotes. And unleash the dogs of war.

All structures in words are partly rhetorical, and hence literary, and the notion of a scientific or philosophical verbal structure free of rhetorical elements is an illusion. Thursday, December 11, 2008. Essentially it came down to the reality that I was clueless about Marxism, a state of being which I am not especially fond of. There are two upsides to this story, however, which I discovered later.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Literature. The Poem Means the Poem. Trust the Tale and not the Teller. If you put lipstick on a pig its still a pig. Dont Ask What Literature Means, Ask What Literatu. All Literature is Displaced Myth. Literature is Not Dull and Boring, the Reader is! I am interested in something because it interests . It doesnt matter what you read; just dont read t. Hold the Mirror of Art up to Nature. Movies to Watch That Definitely All Pertain to Lit. Moral of Wizard of Oz.

Friday, December 12, 2008. Say what you want about Jim Morrison. I sometimes feel either way. But watching a PBS documentary on the doors last night, i saw that he had a few beautiful things to say. A few things that if we look at what hes saying we can see we see the same things. Music is a pure expression of joy, a pure expression of beauty. A little guide to the story.

Friday, December 12, 2008. Well after an entire semester of reading more material then I would like I am finally glad to be done, but realistically are we ever done? There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. This is the Elegiac section. Wednesday, December 10, 2008.

Friday, December 12, 2008. Frye, Don Q, the critics and memorizing Idea. Dream about the power he has.