Booknotes from Literacy-chic

[...] nonblackened eye widened at sight of me, and he started up with an exclamation of surprise. “Father Kenneth .” I gripped him by the hand and squeezed, smiling broadly for the benefit of whatever [...]

[...] Continued from Pt. 1 So where is literacy in the Hunger Games?  It is clear that the people of Panem are literate.  There is education in all of the [...]

[...] that fascinated me that seems to need to be addressed before I can move on--or back--to the Hunger Games article that I've been trying to write since February or March (and then ultimately to Lord of [...]

[...] It's been a while since my Hunger Games posts, but after seeing Catching Fire last night (it was good; go see it!), and after reading [...]

[...] , I have, like Damocles' sword, two articles that I would like to write--one on where the Hunger Games novels fit in the history of dystopian discourses on literacy, and one that discusses the [...]

[...] rather than in nature.  In particular, there is no running water.  There is also no priest.  Farmer Maggot is a shrewd fellow, but he does not, in fact, preside over the meal.  His wife is more [...]

[...] . Reading very specifically with the locus amoenus in mind, I am approaching the farm of Farmer Maggot, with Black Riders on the road--Farmer Maggot is an important personage, and even though his [...]

[...] in memory, it does not seem imbued with power the same way that others are--though Farmer Maggot's house is a decent candidate for a locus amœnus.  Tom Bombadil's house is most [...]

[...] , and to practice close reading on the web (or at least closer than your average book review!) Notable moments are "rhetorical responses."  They stem from the circumstances of reading--what [...]

[...] of creative/critical energy this morning, I decided to collect everything I have said about notable moments--on my original class blog, which is private, in a conference presentation I gave, in an [...]

[...] It's a funny thing about Notable Moments.  Once I commit one to writing, my mind becomes oriented in that direction--seeking, finding, [...]

[...] on literacy, and one that discusses the purpose and pedagogy behind what I call "notable moments" posts.  The former, on the Hunger Games, has (I believe) been more or less accepted as [...]

[...] ) is the depiction of unrestricted, unprotected sex.  It is perhaps the prominance of the birth control message in the subsequent books that make it seem not only like a backlash against its absence [...]

[...] up with fertility, that develops, in later books, into a curious near-feminist statement on birth control and reproduction. The Early Books From the first novel, Outlander, Gabaldon's novels have been [...]

[...] placed in the novel for three purposes:  to disgust the reader, to stress the importance of birth control by depicting the (historical?) dangers of childbirth, and to introduce the ethics of forced [...]

[...] that dwarves are particularly strange in Rohan, though their ways are known. This is not the notable moment that inspired me to write, however.  The moment occurs in Helm's Deep--in a chapter that I [...]

[...] we will speak also of Tobold the Old and his herb-lore. Farewell!" (545) It is a truly notable moment, and one that could easily be missed in a first reading of Lord of the Rings.  What we have [...]

[...] This is a Notable Moment post, and what I mean by "notable moment" reaches back into my purpose(s?) for keeping up this blog (intermittently):  to give an [...]

It's a funny thing about Notable Moments.  Once I commit one to writing, my mind becomes oriented in that direction--seeking, finding, and writing no [...]

[...] not they would let their sisters, nieces, or daughters watch the film, they said no, literary criticism would have no bearing on their actions.  And yet, they parroted it.  *sigh*  That [...]

[...] in a well-constructed, coherent volume, since contemporary poets are seldom the subject of literary criticism by non-creative writing professors (unless they draw on their network of friends and [...]

[...] ; go see it!), and after reading an essay on Neville Longbottom that typifies the kind of literary criticism I want to do, I want to return to my final commentary on the Hunger Games trilogy. The [...]

[...] it is an outdated concept; perhaps it is simply foreign to the American tradition of literary criticism, which seems likely, even given the advent of ecocriticism, which purports to root itself [...]

[...] -01). The Fiery Cross (Outlander) (Kindle Locations 2645-2646). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.  [...]

[...] ). Drums of Autumn (Outlander) (Kindle Locations 10291-10292). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.  [...]

[...] ... Gabaldon, Diana (2004-10-26). Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.Gabaldon, Diana (2004-10-26). Drums of Autumn (Outlander). Random House Publishing Group. [...]

[...] ! Gabaldon, Diana (2002-10-01). The Fiery Cross (Outlander). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. [...]

[...] Fire that introduces the reader to one of the grand literacy themes in the Hunger Games trilogy, which can be best summed up in the question:  scripted or unscripted?  Up to [...]

[...] kind of literary criticism I want to do, I want to return to my final commentary on the Hunger Games trilogy. The topic here is literacy, and originally I saved it until last because at first glance, [...]

[...] related to the Outlander series that I never actually completed, and one or two about the Hunger Games trilogy--not entirely satisfactory, but not completely lost, either.  When I'm reading a paper [...]