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| I'm still here |
| 2008-05-29 12:15:00 |
Finals, and final papers, were rather overwhelming. Now that I'm home I'm getting to work, so there'll be more going up here soon....
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| Thoughts on Louisa May Alcott |
| 2008-03-31 10:12:00 |
The Subjugation of Males in Louisa May Alcott’s Thrillers In Behind a Mask by Louisa May Alcott, gender roles are reversed as males become objects of lust and women become the people in power. Unlike the more common male protagonist-centered stories, Alcott has women as the main character of her fiction. As a result, while there are elements of female oppression in the novels, there is also a strong theme of male subjugation by females in her stories. As women overcome their oppression and rise above their circumstances, males begin to fill a more traditionally female role in literature, becoming secondary characters that are the objects of desire, lust, and oppression. This theme is most clear in “Pauline’s Passion and Punishment.” The story is about Pauline, who has been de...
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| Narrowing Things Down |
| 2008-03-29 23:22:00 |
So this week I've been doing some serious thinking about narrowing things down, and also minimizing the amount of work I need to do as far as research. This is, in a way, a very confusing idea for me because I often think of research as doing as much work on a subject I don't know about as I can possibly do. It's possibly a holdover from when I had to do research projects when I was younger... and I didn't know as much as I know now.For the more immediate research project that is due at the end of the semester, I have a fairly good idea about what I want to do it on. I want to research how Louisa May Alcott objectifies men in her stories. I'm also thinking of after proving that she does objectify men, either try to express that it is, in a way an expression of repressed desires in her...
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| I'm starting to realize that there is a lot more out there than I thought. |
| 2008-03-22 14:29:00 |
Today I began exploring Romance Wiki which is an online resource, best as I can understand, the documents different trends in the Romance Genre- authors, books, academic happenings, and other stuff. It has some great links, which I'm still delving into, but it's got me excited because I'm beginning to realize that there is a lot more academic research out on Romance novels than I thought. The killer is, part of me wants to go out and read some of the books that people are mentioning that I haven't read (and boy, do I feel like my head is under a rock, because a lot of these authors are fairly well known, and I just haven't gotten around to reading them), and the other part wants me to go on inter-library loan and get out all the different academic articles I can get my hands on. I think...
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| Thank God for the MLA International Biography |
| 2008-03-20 18:04:00 |
So my first day of delving into what's on MLA... and wishing that I didn't have to request so much in Inter-Library loan. Refworks is very very helpful, at least for keeping track of what I've already looked at and deemed appropriate to what I'm working on.At this point I'm just looking for context, increasing my vocabulary, and understanding what I'm doing. Getting direction, and trying to figure out if what I want to do has been done yet.For amusements sake, and so I have a backup copy of what I need to look at more throughly, and figure out what I need to get off of ILL/ones I found interesting and thought might pertain in some way shape or form to what I'm interested in:Works Cited Austin, Andrea. "Details: Hitchcock Reads Rebecca." Empowerment Versus Oppression: Twenty First Centur...
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| And my Resarch Begins... |
| 2008-03-17 17:37:00 |
My first really helpful link I got from Smart Bitches, a site that writes very critical reviews of romance novels. This was one of the first sites I stumbled upon that gave me a sort of vindication... here was a site that was not afraid to give a book a really bad review. Here was a site that held romance novels to the same standards as any other type of novel. I felt like I had finally found a place, a group of people that felt the same way that I did... that just because romance novels are popular fiction didn't mean they had to be badly written.For a long time I lurked, and then was lured into commenting. And then my second break happened. In reference to a Romance Writers Association award, SBTB linked to Teach Me Tonight, a blog about scholarship on romance novels!!! Really, thi...
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| The Obligatory First Post, wherein I state what this blog is about. |
| 2008-03-15 16:02:00 |
I've always loved Romance Novels. While I share a love of most popular fiction, Romance Novels are what I devour. I called them my brain candy- fluff, basically. I was an English major who had just as much love of Shakespeare and Lord Byron as Nora Roberts and Lisa Kleypas. It never occurred to me that I could ever incorporate my love of literature and romance novels. One was read for pleasure, the other to expand my mind. It didn't occur to me that I could do both, within the same field.However, this last semester (Fall 2007) and this semester (Spring 2008) I took a series of courses that made me realize that I could do both loves at once.So after trying and failing to incorporate my two interests in a variety of formats, I finally hit on creating an independent study where I invest...
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