Sutpen's Delusion

English 3319 students: 

During your 50-minutes class time (1:00-1:50 p.m.) on Monday, September 27, please publish a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs about this topic: What do you think are the most significant moral flaws in Thomas Sutpen's attempts in Absalom, Absalom! to create a coherent history and family legacy during his life, as William Faulkner explains on pp. 224-285. (This part begins with the statement, "His trouble was innocence," and ends with "what had happened was just a delusion and did not actually exist.") 

When you compose your comment, please keep in mind that modernism emphasizes examples of the corruption and fragmentation of allegedly stable social order in the past. This corruption and fragmentation has led to chaos, according to Faulkner and other modernists.

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

As we have discussed, you should compose your comment and reply paragraphs in a separate Word document or in an email to yourself so that you would not have to rewrite them in case you have a technical glitch when you try to publish them. If you have trouble publishing them at first, just copy and paste them into the comment and reply boxes a second (and even a third) time until they are successfully published. 

This glitch usually happens when a student is not logged into a Google account (gmail) when he or she tries to submit the comment or reply. To avoid that possibility, be sure to log in first. However, this glitch also sometimes happens even when a student is logged in, so, to avoid being frustrated in either case, you should compose your comment and reply in a Word document or an email to yourself. If you cannot submit your comment and reply after a few attempts, please email them to me to publish on your behalf: linda.kornasky@angelo.edu. 

Reminders: On Wednesday, September 29, we will discuss Gertrude Stein's experimental writings: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gertrude-stein 

Thank you, 

Dr. Kornasky

The Deaths of Gatsby and Hopkins

English 3319 students: 

During your 50-minutes class time (1:00-1:50 p.m.) on Monday, September 20, please publish a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs about this topic: Compare and contrast the death of Gatsby at the end of Chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald with the implied death of Hopkins at the end of Part I of Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River:” (link: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/hem_river.html) 

When you compose your comment, please keep in mind the maximalist and minimalist approaches to Modernism that were discussed in class this past week. 

After you publish your two-paragraph comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments. Do not merely write that the comment is awesome! Please explain why you think the comment is well-done. 

As we have discussed, you should compose your comment and reply paragraphs in a separate Word document or in an email to yourself so that you would not have to rewrite them in case you have a technical glitch when you try to publish them. If you have trouble publishing them at first, just copy and paste them into the comment and reply boxes a second (and even a third) time until they are successfully published. 

This glitch usually happens when a student is not logged into a Google account (gmail) when he or she tries to submit the comment or reply. To avoid that possibility, be sure to log in first. However, this glitch also sometimes happens even when a student is logged in, so, to avoid being frustrated in either case, you should compose your comment and reply in a Word document or an email to yourself. If you cannot submit your comment and reply after a few attempts, please email them to me to publish on your behalf: linda.kornasky@angelo.edu. 

Reminders: On Wednesday, September 22, we will discuss the research paper and start to delve into William Faulkner's literary renown. We will meet in Academic 101. 

Thank you, 

Dr. Kornasky

Our First Blog

English 3319 students: 

During your 50-minutes class time (1:00-1:50 p.m.) on Monday, September, please publish a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs about this topic: 

Compare and contrast the marriage of Minnie and John Wright portrayed in "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell with the marriage of Daisy and Tom Buchanan portrayed in the first chapter, pp. 1-21, of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 

After you publish your two-paragraph comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments. Do not merely write that the comment is awesome! Please explain why you think the comment is well-done. 

As we have discussed, you should compose your comment and reply paragraphs in a separate Word document or in an email to yourself so that you would not have to rewrite them in case you have a technical glitch when you try to publish them. If you have trouble publishing them at first, just copy and paste them into the comment and reply boxes a second (and even a third) time until they are successfully published. 

This glitch usually happens when a student is not logged into a Google account (gmail) when he or she tries to submit the comment or reply. To avoid that possibility, be sure to log in first. However, this glitch also sometimes happens even when a student is logged in, so, to avoid being frustrated in either case, you should compose your comment and reply in a Word document or an email to yourself. If you cannot submit your comment and reply after a few attempts, please email them to me to publish on your behalf: linda.kornasky@angelo.edu. 

Reminders: On Wednesday, September 15, we will continue to discuss The Great Gatsby. Please finish this short novel by that day. We will meet back in Academic 101 again then.

Thank you, 

Dr. Kornasky