 | Back to lit critJuly 2nd, 2006 |
Once upon a time, this website contained a section of academic literary criticism papers. They were all written while I was in graduate school getting my MFA; mostly on Modernism, but also on a few other topics.
Well, at some point — probably when we launched this bloggy version of the site — the section fell away, and resided only in old backups. Which is somewhat of a shame, because believe it or not, something like my essay on Bharati Mukherjee’s short stories was one of the few available online, and therefore was cited from time to time.
It’s all back now, even though I imagine most of you who read the site could really care less. Probably the only ones who will care will be college students who have found a small trove of fresh papers to plagiarize. The whole thing is linked off of the Writing section of the site.
The papers presented include a comparison of “Gawain and the Green Knight” and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a rather writerly examination of the technicalities of point-of-view in a D. H. Lawrence story, and a look at the late British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes through the lens of horror fiction.
What’s more, I found some other papers I had never posted. These were more experimental in nature — stuff that i did when I was sick of writing essays. One is in the format of a talk-poem in the style of David Antin (who, ironically, teaches here at UCSD); the other is an essay I wrote and then annotated myself with my own reactions to the first draft, leading to a rather dizzying reading experience. I have spared you all the various academic essays written as collages, or the one essay that was designed to be read with all of its pages in randomized order.
Again, you probably don’t care, and quit reading a few paragraphs ago. 
But hey, it was some years of my life, and traces of it may as well remain here.
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