Blogs about: Cis 654
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A blogroll of sorts
Since we are going to be talking about blogs, BookTV, and other electronic media in class I thought I would discuss my uses of these various mediums. I read a lot of blogs. The majority of the blogs I… more →
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A blogroll of sorts
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lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: Since we are going to be talking about blogs, BookTV, and other electronic media in class I thought … more →
Understanding McLuhan
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: I didn’t find McLuhan that difficult to read, but I’m not sure if I buy what he is selli … more →
History of Reading
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: I loved Manguel’s A History of Reading. It was interesting how he divided the book into short … more →
Invention of Copyright
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: Unfortunately, Authors and Owners induced unpleasant flashbacks to an eighteenth-century literature … more →
Project Update
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: I haven’t been able to get anything new accomplished since I outlined my project on Monday. La … more →
Living Folklore
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: This text provides an introduction to the study of folklore. Now that I know the basics, I definitel … more →
The Bones of Story
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: I really like the analogy of the skeleton that Betsy Hearne uses in “The Bones of Story.” I found he … more →
The Story Factor
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: Annette Simmons’ The Story Factor is particularly interesting because it brings the significance of … more →
Where history failed, imagination stepped in
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: The excerpt of Ruth Sawyer’s book we read for class addresses the history of storytelling as well as … more →
More from Ong's Orality and Literacy
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: “Writing Restructures Consciousness” In this chapter, Ong discusses the paradoxical position of Lear … more →
The Practical Impact of Writing
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: After reading Roger Chartier’s “The Practical Impact of Writing,” my first thought … more →
Note-taking and Memory
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: As noted in Blair’s article and the class discussion, there is some debate about the effect of … more →
Hopefully my last post on Bordieu
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: Whew! I finally managed to finished reading “The Field of Cultural Production.” Moreover … more →
More thoughts on "text"
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: After today’s class discussion, it seems like my definition of text is incomplete. I defined t … more →
Bourdieu Revisited
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: I tried reading Bourdieu again. I still have not finished it, but at least I got past the first page … more →
Miscellanea
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: In one of our class meetings someone brought up fan fiction. Here is an interesting article about th … more →
Ong's Orality
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: So far, I really like Walter J. Ong’s Orality and Literacy. His style is very clear and readab … more →
Bourdieu
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: Wait…what? I’m not sure if my problems with the text stem from the particular translatio … more →
What is "text"?
lmgrimes wrote 2 years ago: My initial response to the question is that text is written or printed words displayed on a page (or … more →
