Readings: Gene Wolfe, “Useful Phrasesâ€; Ursula K. LeGuin, “Therolinguistics†In linguistics, code-switching is switching between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation. More generally, code-switching is switching between two or more semiotic systems, in the context of a single conversation, text, or event. Code-switching is also an excellent creative […]
Continue ReadingReading: Lynn White, Jr: “The historical roots of our ecologic crisis†by Lynn White Jr (in the Ecocriticism Reader) Prompt: Lynn White’s essay is filled with controversial theses, all of which tend to criticize the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. Read the essay, locate one such assertion, and offer a refutation of it or further support for […]
Continue ReadingWriting Prompt: In his essay on the uncanny, Sigmund Freud describes the strange sensation one experiences when he or she feels both at home and estranged at the same moment. Â For this assignment it is your task to find one passage in your assigned chapter of Turn of the Screw that engages with any of […]
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