What assessments of the Humanities generally or of your particular major/minor area of study do you see being made in current media? Find an article to summarize, comment on, and share with the class. Oftentimes I find more evidence of how closed-minded the English field is rather than the opposite. However, today I have an … [Read more…]
The following assignment sheets give you two different examples for writing a proposal for a research project. Following these assignment sheets, you’ll see samples of proposals students have written: one from English and two from Philosophy. TO DO: Read the guidelines with attention to commonalities between them: what’s their purpose, what are they asking students/scholars … [Read more…]
Quote from Speculations: Contemporary Poetry and Painting, by Fred Moramarco “Reading poems, we convert their language to the visual images they evoke in our mind’s eye. A poet who writes about a painting performs precisely the reverse activity. By converting painterly images to words, he/she “envoices” a canvas, finding a language for the ineffable world … [Read more…]
