Showing posts with label ENG 104. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ENG 104. Show all posts

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Language awareness

This book has a very different idea of language awareness. COmposition studies and linguists use the term very differently.

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/newcatalog.aspx?isbn=0312463162&disc=English&course=Composition&detail=toc

Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing

http://www.jstor.org/stable/357563

by Maxine Hairston

She thinks it's bad for FYC teachers to teach about politics or diversity. She highlights Marxism in FYC courses and says that English departments shouldn't let literary critics run things. She says we should just teach writing, period, free of democratic ideals.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Zombies, Malls, and the Consumerism Debate: George Romero's Dawn of the Dead

by Stephen Harper

Romero says that malls and a consumer culture make us into zombies.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Raising the Dead

by Kyle Bishop in http://heldref-publications.metapress.com/media/6a86qnuqypdxfqqyhnr2/contributions/3/4/6/k/346k07hv3887qrhn.pdf

An examination of why zombies fascinate us. Goes into history: from actual Voudan practice to the film WHite Zombie, then pulp comics, then Romero.

Zombies reflect our fear that deep down we are nothing but appetite. They are uncanny in Freudian sense because they are dead, and yet they move. They sometimes have the faces of our friends and family who have been turned.

They are essentially cinematic because they are so graphic.