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Now that class is over…

byarbrough — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:56:03 +0000

How are everyone’s essays going? Is anyone planning on rewriting an essay? What are you going to change if you do? I’m not sure yet if I’ll have time, I’m going in to talk to Dara tomorrow I think. If I do a rewrite, it will probably mostly be structural changes and some content stuff.Â

The Bloody Chamber

byarbrough — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:51:02 +0000

What did everyone think? I loved it, something about Carter’s writing style is really compelling. The story seems much more real than the other fairy tales we’ve read, it’s definitely not for kids, and I thought the sexual aspects of her writing are intriguing. There definitely is a more feminist feel to the story, but I don’t think it’s overdone at all. Good stuff

Tomorrow’s Reading

byarbrough — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:37:02 +0000

Did anyone else have trouble with tomorrow’s reading? I can’t get through it, it’s so dry. All I got from it was that politics are important in all works, but after that everything stops making sense. Same problem for anyone else?

Readings for Tomorrow

byarbrough — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:01:07 +0000

Does anyone know if Sumpter’s “Crusade Against the Giants” and “The Brave Little Tailor” are the same thing? I only see one Sumpter article on eres.

Grimm essays?

byarbrough — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:19:49 +0000

Anyone feeling the crunch yet? Does anyone know where I can get sources on the economic conditions during the Grimm time period, more specifically on the struggle between the upper and middle/lower classes?

Essays?

byarbrough — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:50:43 +0000

Since we’re getting close to the deadline, how are everyone else’s essays going at this point? I’m having some trouble getting my thesis in order and connecting all the points in my essay, and it’s also not long enough yet. Has everyone else been using a lot of sources? For some reason I’ve been using a lot of Zipes and I feel like I need to expand my source list. Hopefully I’m not the only one who’s not finished yet?

byarbrough — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:45:33 +0000

I’m still a little unsure of what I want to write about. The gender roles in the stories is something I’ve thought about and it seems a lot of other people have thought about, but how would we make that relate to German nationalism? I don’t want to stray too far from the prompt and end up writing an essay that isn’t about what it’s supposed to be about. All of the women in society and gender roles essays on eres make me think that it would be a good idea to write about this topic since there are so many sources right in front of us. Another idea I had was writing about how the brothers create a nationalistic feeling by portraying the upper class/royalty in a negative light (Cinderella, The Frog King, etc). If I wrote an essay on that, do you guys think would it be OK to use more than one fairy tale so I can show how they use the theme throughout many of their stories?

byarbrough — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:24:49 +0000

What does everyone think of the Grimm fairy tales we had to read? I liked the Juniper Tree a lot more, maybe because I’ve never read it before or maybe because I thought it was weirdly funny like the Grimms’ Cinderella was. I don’t know if I see all of the crazy metaphors and allusions like Bettelheim does, but they’re interesting to read anyway By the way, where can we find the academic honesty paper?Â

Hey guys

byarbrough — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:29:20 +0000

I hadn’t thought about the essay at all yet, but looking through the choices I think I’ll either write on Yeh-Hsien or Yin Yan. They’re both pretty different from the regular Cinderella story and would have a lot of interesting details to write about in a paper. I thought it was interesting how the last paragraph in Yeh-Hsien has practically nothing to do with any of the main character, but instead focuses on the fish bones and how they were used. It definitely has a lot to do with the differences in cultures, so there would be a lot of stuff to discuss in there.