Friday, April 4, 2014
Response to Course Material(ish)
Well I've learned a considerable bit over the past couple months. In class, we've had some pretty profound moments and some less than profound moments. We read Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and we started Ceremony. The biggest things I feel like I've learned from these works and our team discussions are: authors can use characters to fit myriad literary techniques; culture affects how we read and understand literature; and that there isn't one set way to look at a literary work. There are several lenses to look through. I think I'm even catching on to this whole blog thing... lol
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Peter,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed looking at the other lenses of literature too. I think some of them become part of the discussions naturally. For instance, we talked about each piece through the feminist lense in some respect, especially in The American Dream and Hamlet.
Others are less natural, and they were fun to focus on and added more understanding for my class. It is great that we are able to look back on the works in a new way and use all that we have learned.
Remember to mention things outside of class!
Those are all definitely good lessons to come away with. One of my favorite parts of the year so far was when we went back through the works we've already read and looked at them through just one critical lense that we hadn't considered as much before.
ReplyDeleteThis reflection would probably be more helpful to you if you made some connections, both within our class and to outside events.