Monthly Archives: December 2011

We watched Elizabeth in class as a means of understanding the world and political landscape that Shakespeare was born into.  The movie, however, is also an excellent introduction to Shakespeare’s history plays because it is structured similar to the histories … Continue reading →

In a really tightly written paragraph of no fewer than 250 words, find a common thread that links either The Bluest Eye or Good Hair (or even Amusing Ourselves to Death) with Bamboozled and explain the connection that you see.  … Continue reading →

Foster goes on to say that when literary writers do include explicit sex scenes, they generally aren’t doing so to excite their readers, but to illustrate something essential about their characters or storylines.  That said, there is a lot of  … Continue reading →

In How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster says that much of what we read in literature is about sex, even if it doesn’t look like it at first.  This isn’t to say that everything is about … Continue reading →