Presentations

I have to say that the last group that presented on Wednesday did an awesome job. Well, both groups did. I'm amazed at how many closet actors and actress he have hiding in the English department. What I've always liked about taking classes in the English world, is that the students of literature never seem afraid to have fun with any assignment, be it a 12 page paper or a free oral presentation. Not only did they do an outstanding job of embodying their school of criticism, but they embodied the element of fictional fantasy that is in Don Quixote as well as in our hearts as students of literature, language and writing.

Shooting a video that told a story and also innerweaved the fictional quality, as well as the fantastical quality that all these different critics from different places and times interact IN the story that Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are partaking in.

Group 6, also did an amazing job with psychoanalysis theory and had me giggling the whole time.

I love th notion of intertextuality. That all texts are connected and share and intimate if not invisible relationship. There are strings tying all pieces of literature together, and to be able to see, or find them all, one has to wear many different criticism spectacles. For you can't see all possible ties, themes, ideas, or...basically EVERYTHING without looking at a text in every possible way.
But I also think that a text can and should be read as merely a text. To be read for enjoyment, before analysis. Because if we concentrate on only what a text means, or what it is trying to say, I feel we forget why we started reading in the first place; to experience the joy and wonder of a world outside the reality we are rooted in.

So a balance between study and joy must be found, and I think as English majors and minors we are doing just that. For we all started out reading for the pure fun of it, and now we wish to delve deeper into the world of words and stories.