My favorite project of the semester was the project I did for Bisclavret. Bisclavret has to be my favorite thing we’ve read in class despite it being maybe five pages of poetry. It was short but there is so much to unpack in this story. The reason my first project was my favorite was because… Read more It was the gay werewolf project, did you expect anything different? (reflection)
shinrasblog
Help with Hoccleve – Second Unessay
What exactly are you looking at, aren’t they just regular annotations? They aren’t entirely “normal” annotations. I’ll explain this. I tried to make a group of annotations using Hypothesis that could help people in the future while reading Hoccleve’s Complaint. Hypothesis is an extension that people can use to annotate a text online. The extension… Read more Help with Hoccleve – Second Unessay
Bisclavret Deserved a Better Wife (Or Maybe Not – Let’s Talk About It)
Bisclavret’s wife is a terrible person. I don’t believe anyone deserves bodily harm, but I also don’t blame Bisclavret for tearing her nose off. I have questions that don’t have answers within the poem, or do they? Kind of is my answer to that. Why is this woman so manipulative if she’s supposedly perfect? I… Read more Bisclavret Deserved a Better Wife (Or Maybe Not – Let’s Talk About It)
The Brain is a City of Fairies and That’s Magical
“The Fairies in the Brain May Be the Causes of Many Thoughts.” This poem stuck out to me due to its title. I don’t recall talking about this in class at all so I feel the need to talk about it in a blog post. This poem seems to be a sequel to another poem… Read more The Brain is a City of Fairies and That’s Magical
Bisclavret: A Delightfully Trans, Gay Werewolf
This footnote obviously stuck out to everyone in class: “3. At first, I use “it” to refer to the werewolf as seen by the king; at the point when the lady’s husband enters the picture, I return to the masculine pronoun. In French, and therefore in Marie ’s text,, there is no neuter pronoun; the… Read more Bisclavret: A Delightfully Trans, Gay Werewolf
Words are (Not) Absolute
Who is correct about what a text means: a scholar, the reader, or the author? Perhaps it’s all of them. I wanted to bring up signifiers and the signified when we talked about American Moor in class. There is one passage that irked me because the director in the play didn’t consider the idea of… Read more Words are (Not) Absolute
How to Morally Require Representation in Theatre (and other movie-media)?
When discussing American Moor so long ago, we (the class) brought up the problem with lack of representation in theatre. This is something that spans back in multiple countries: sometimes women couldn’t be in a play or certain people of color weren’t allowed or even both! It’s sad when you grow up and there’s a… Read more How to Morally Require Representation in Theatre (and other movie-media)?
Gender or Disability? Thoughts about what kind of paper I should write (brainstorm)
I want to challenge myself and with the permission of Nic, I’m thinking about doing a 10 page paper divided into two parts (so this unessay is the first 5 and the third unessay is the other 5). I’m also partly doing this because I need a 10-15 page paper to get into the master’s… Read more Gender or Disability? Thoughts about what kind of paper I should write (brainstorm)
Iago and Izaya – a brief look into character archetype evolution
“Awful, sometimes witty, manipulative, has convoluted plans, potentially secretly gay for somebody he claims to hate, obnoxious, ‘evil,’ and wants to make everyone’s lives hell because it’s fun/ benefits him somehow” is how I would describe one of my favorite anime characters of all time. However, despite how incredibly specific it is, I also just… Read more Iago and Izaya – a brief look into character archetype evolution
The Mysterious Bisclavret and His King (a potential manga adaptation – unessay 1)
The Mysterious Bisclavret and His King Prologue There once was a beautiful man who lived a happy life. None know his name, so we shall call him Bisclavret, the French name for “werewolf.” He was a knight and lord, well loved by the kingdom and his wife. This kingdom had problems, like most kingdoms, but… Read more The Mysterious Bisclavret and His King (a potential manga adaptation – unessay 1)