Day 14
We received our essay questions today to prepare for our exam next week.1 There are five questions. He will give us four, we will choose two.
I used my free time on Tuesday to get caught up on the reading so I was prepared for class. Unfortunately, the tangential nature of the class reared its ugly head and we spent a good deal of the class discuss the nature and role of the rebel in our modern society and the societies of Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales. This I had not prepared comments on. I still remain too anonymous for my own comfort. In the one class I am almost too conspicuous and this one I've never exchanged words with the professor.
We discussed the reversion from a literate culture to a culture of the image and our accented voice proposed a number of conspiracy theories, none of which I am at liberty to comment on.
After the break we continued to contrast the author of The Canterbury Tales with the narrator. I had considered the Wife of Bath to be a purely comical character, but now I can see where Chaucer seems to revere her. I admit to being a little sleepy as I read and not quite catching all the details of dress in the General Prologue. All in all, every day in this class I am reminded that my mind does not work in the same way as an English major's so I must continually be alert and on my guard.
Where should I see conspiracy and degradation? Where should I rise above my culture and where conform to it? I have only a year to answer these questions.
NOTE:
1- This will be a busy weekend with watching Orlando, writing the Orlando paper and preparing five essays. "This is not a drill, soldier."
I used my free time on Tuesday to get caught up on the reading so I was prepared for class. Unfortunately, the tangential nature of the class reared its ugly head and we spent a good deal of the class discuss the nature and role of the rebel in our modern society and the societies of Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales. This I had not prepared comments on. I still remain too anonymous for my own comfort. In the one class I am almost too conspicuous and this one I've never exchanged words with the professor.
We discussed the reversion from a literate culture to a culture of the image and our accented voice proposed a number of conspiracy theories, none of which I am at liberty to comment on.
After the break we continued to contrast the author of The Canterbury Tales with the narrator. I had considered the Wife of Bath to be a purely comical character, but now I can see where Chaucer seems to revere her. I admit to being a little sleepy as I read and not quite catching all the details of dress in the General Prologue. All in all, every day in this class I am reminded that my mind does not work in the same way as an English major's so I must continually be alert and on my guard.
Where should I see conspiracy and degradation? Where should I rise above my culture and where conform to it? I have only a year to answer these questions.
NOTE:
1- This will be a busy weekend with watching Orlando, writing the Orlando paper and preparing five essays. "This is not a drill, soldier."
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