Franzen’s analysis of the German writer Karl Kraus was nothing surprising or noteworthy, in my opinion. Although he says a lot about what Franzen finds valuable about reading and writing, the qualities needed in a good book that he points out are what every reader…

I think that Meredith Grey is one of the most miserable and whiny people in the world. Fortunately, her continuous banter has yet to stop me from cozying up in bed and watching my ultimate favorite TV show, ever, Grey’s Anatomy. Meredith, being the main…

We started off class with Professor Bergren giving us a little grammar lesson on run on sentences. The lessons consisted of using words such as however, and how we should use them carefully–usually when however is used in the middle of a sentence it is…

The conclusion of LAS could be called “uniformly satisfying”, but I would say it is “uniformly unsatisfying.” After reading this victorian novel with murder, bigamy, secrets, and lying I expected the ending to have much more of a purpose, or satisfactory element to it. Yes,…

When google imaging “pre-Raphaelite”, all of the paintings depicted are of women-women with long protruding hair and wandering, pain-filled eyes. The first word that came to my mind when grazing these paintings was distress. The only way to really describe “pre-Raphaelite” is ethereal; all of…

In Melanie Koss and William Teale’s “What’s Happening in YA Literature? Trends in Books for Adolescents” the authors conduct many studies about what makes YA reading so popular. When analyzing popular subject matter, they found that overtime, YA books have been called “problem novels”—“novels with…

(second go, hope this works now) To be honest, I would love to read TFIOS with Augustus narrating it. It would be completely and utterly different. I think that if Augustus wrote it, TFIOS would be romanticized a lot more. To me, TFIOS is written…

1. How are Hume, Kant, and Bourdieu different in their thinking about taste? (You might choose to focus on two rather than all three.) Whom do you tend to agree with more, and why? What examples might help support your preference? When comparing all three…