Monthly Archives: October 2013

I’ve always been fascinated by the world of film and the film industry, and I think this is in largely in part to the ways in which it overlaps with literature and storytelling. The one thing I believe more than … Continue reading →

The article that I found most interesting this week was Judith Halberstam’s “Female Masculinity,” maybe because I had never read this text before, and also I like that it comes from a 1998 book (relatively recent). I found her argument … Continue reading →

It seems especially fitting that our feminism week of readings falls at a time when some of the main news headlines are the one year anniversary of sixteen year old Malala Yousafzai’s shooting at the hands of the Taliban in … Continue reading →

As someone who has always found the link between literature and politics fascinating, I really enjoyed the variety in this week’s readings and after completing them I find myself thinking the most about the arguments Žižek puts forward in his … Continue reading →

The reading that I found most interesting from this week’s set was Lacan’s “Seminar on ‘The Purloined Letter’”. This is undoubtedly because I really enjoy literature and Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favourite American authors; it had been … Continue reading →