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-19 posts tagged "literature"
Abigail Piper | Tuesday, February 20, 2018
“In this false world, we guard our lives with our deaths.” When I began reading “Call Me Zebra,” quotes like this made me think it was going to be a hard read. I did not need another “The Satanic Verses” circa 2015 moment, where the entire book flew so far over my head a sharpshooter
Colleen Zewe | Wednesday, October 11, 2017
To prepare for the upcoming Christian Culture Lecture, Saint Mary’s hosted a discussion about “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood on Tuesday. Speakers included Phyllis Kaminski of the religious studies and gender and women’s studies departments, Ann Marie Short of the English department and Laura Williamson Ambrose of the humanistic studies department. The three professors
Martha Reilly | Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Though the Saint Mary’s English Club learns from its past, lives in the present and plans for the future, no tense situations arise as members share their love for reading and writing. Sophomore secretary Riley Harber said she enjoys expressing her love for literature outside of the classroom. “I always value being a Saint Mary’s
Rebecca Feng | Friday, September 9, 2016
The first time I met Mrs. Brown was in Virginia Woolf’s essay “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.” Woolf introduced to me this old woman, in her 60s, sitting in the corner of a train from Richmond to Waterloo. There was a line I dare not forget: “She gathers herself together with superb dignity.” Woolf says,
Christopher Damian | Thursday, February 18, 2016
When I first read “Harry Potter,” I secretly waited for a letter from Hogwarts. Part of growing up was realizing the letter would never come. It’s like the young C.S. Lewis said, when confronted with the confrontation between poetic myth and hard rationalism: “Nearly all that I loved I believed to be imaginary; nearly all
Courtney Phelan | Thursday, January 28, 2016
To become an elementary school teacher, you major in education. To become a secondary school (middle or high school) teacher, you major in the subject you want to teach and earn a minor in secondary education. While teaching English at the secondary level isn’t the only use for a degree in English, it’s mine. I want to be
Jennifer Vosters | Thursday, January 21, 2016
Last semester, my writing professor forbade us from using the word “relatable” to describe each other’s work. I thought it was because the word was overused, the same way I was forbidden to use the word “skillz” in seventh grade (“You’ve got mad skillz!”). But, after thinking about it, it’s really the idea behind it that’s overused. Yet
Charlie Ducey | Monday, October 5, 2015
I’m a big fan of browsing shelves. I do this all the time, compulsively. I’ll enter an office, lounge or dorm room, and before I know it, I’m scanning the bookcases in the room. A novel by Vonnegut, a pre-calc practice book, a copy of the Ignatius Bible. You can inform yourself about a person
Gabriela Malespin | Monday, September 28, 2015
John Sitter, Mary Lee Duda professor of literature, discussed the relationship between sustainability, posterity and liberal arts in his lecture Saturday, “What’s Posterity Ever Done for Us?: Literature and the Future.” Sitter’s lecture, part of the Snite Museum of Art’s “Saturday Scholars Series,” highlighted specifically how the liberal arts can help us understand the role
Martha Reilly | Monday, April 13, 2015
Unless you clumsily drop the entire box set of “Harry Potter” on your foot, you won’t suffer too many injuries from books — maybe a paper cut here and there from turning the pages too excitedly. Compare that with the lasting emotional pain onset by heartbreak, and you will see that literature clearly does less