Friday, November 19, 2021

Tell Us about a Source for Your Research Paper


                      


English 3319 students:

For our Monday, November 22, blog, please post a comment of just one well-developed paragraph about the most helpful secondary source of literary criticism you are going to use in your research paper, which is due after the break, on Friday, December 3, which is the last day of classes. 

In your comment, please answer these questions: In what way is this particular literary critic who authored this source helpful to you? How do you plan to use this critic's insights in your paper?

This week you do not have to reply to another student's comment.

This weekend's reminders:

  • Please keep in mind scholarly secondary sources from other disciplines (social sciences, history, etc.) are not supposed to be used in your paper and that those sources would not count toward your required minimum of seven sources of literary criticism
  • The two literary works you have chosen to write about are primary sources that are not counted toward the required seven secondary sources.
  • The paper (a print copy, please) is due at the beginning of class on December 3. If you have to turn in your paper late, you may email it to me as a Word document attachment.

Have a delicious and productive holiday break,

Dr. Kornasky

Sunday, November 14, 2021

"What the Hell Happened to Maggie" in "Recitatif"?!

English 3319 students:

For our blog on Monday, November 15, during class time (1:00-1:50 p.m.), please publish a comment of two well-developed paragraphs about the character of Maggie. Why is she so crucial to Twyla and Roberta's conversation at the end of the story? https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/1073/Morrison_recitatifessay.doc.pdf

After you publish your comment, please reply with one paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments. 

If you have any problems publishing your comment, please do not hesitate to email me (linda.kornasky@angelo.edu) your comment, and I will publish it on your behalf.

Sincerely,
Dr. Kornasky

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P.S.:
As promised, here are links to sources about contextual details that will help you to understand the social setting of the story: 

An article about the history of desegregation busing:

Here is famous conductor Leonard Bernstein's clear explanation of what a recitatif (or recitative in English) does in Opera:

Here is a clip of the very popular Bozo the Clown, a kids television show, which suggests how insulting that the Big Bozo nickname of Miss Itkin is meant by the girls to be:
Here is an article about the Howard Johnson's restaurants (Twyla works at one of them) during the time of the story:



1987: An Orlando Sentinel article refers to HoJo’s as a “sagging chain” and quotes FAI chairman George Carter saying, “It desperately needs to be modernized, internally and externally ...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PVjcIO4MT4
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Sunday, November 7, 2021

Two Poetic Journeys

 

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English 3319 students:

During our class time, 1:00-1:50 p.m., on Monday, November 8th, please publish a comment of two well-developed paragraphs on the stark differences between the two imaginary journeys taken by Robert Frost in "The Road Not Taken" and Sylvia Plath's "Elm:"

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49003/elm

In your comment, please include how natural images are used and how choices/decision making are depicted.

After you publish your comment, please reply in one paragraph to at least one of the students' comments.

Reminder: For Wednesday's class, please read Flannery O'Connor's classic Postmodern short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find:"

https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/160332/A%20good%20man%20is%20hard%20to%20find%20-%20Flannery%20O%27Connor.pdf

Sincerely,

Dr. Kornasky

Sunday, October 31, 2021

The Ghosts of Long Day's Journey Into Night

English 3319 students:

For our Monday, November 1st, blog, during class time (1:00-1:50 p.m.), please publish a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs about this Halloween-related prompt:

What are the haunting and haunted aspects of the end of Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill, from 2:35:00 to the end, 2:50:00 (the last fifteen minutes of the play).

After you publish your comment, please comment in at least one well-developed paragraph to one of the other students' comments.

If you have any trouble publishing your comment, which you should compose in Word or an email and then copy and paste it into the comment box, please email me it to me so that I can publish it on your behalf.

Thank you,
Dr. Kornasky

Sunday, October 24, 2021

Video of Long Day's Journey Into Night

English 3319 students:

For our Monday, October 25, blog, we are going to do the same thing as last week: take a break from a written assignment and, instead, watch a video of a renowned production of this week's play: Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, linked below. 

Like last week, you do not have to publish any comments. Please just enjoy a celebrated production of a great Modernist drama, starring some of the best actors from the era of the play (the middle of the 20th Century).

The running time for the entire play is two hours and fifty minutes.

Here is the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hncUJiK2Zsg

Thank you,
Dr. Kornasky

Thursday, October 14, 2021

Video of Death of a Salesman

        Death of a Salesman (1985)


English 3319 students:

For our Monday, October 18, blog, please take a break from our usual blog writing assignment and just watch the video of the play, Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, linked below. You do not have to publish any comments. Just enjoy this celebrated production of this great drama

The running time for the entire play is about two hours. This light duty provides you with a needed reading break at the midpoint of the semester.

Here is the YouTube link for the play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMqiCtq5VLs

Thank you,
Dr. Kornasky

Sunday, October 10, 2021

In-Person Class on Monday, October 11

 English 3319 students:

We do not have a blog assignment this week, and we will meet in our classroom on Monday, October 11, instead. If you have any questions about the midterm exam on Wednesday and Friday of this week, please ask them in class tomorrow.

See you tomorrow,

Dr. Kornasky

Tell Us about a Source for Your Research Paper

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