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Past Perspectives ~ Zadie Smith ‘White Teeth’

thetidalrabbit wrote 1 week ago: A blog post of my lecture notes on ‘White Teeth’     Smith demonstrates the important but fractured … more →

Tags: The Reading Group, Literature, Books, Fiction, study, Ian McEwan, Past, zadie smith, White Teeth

Writing as the (still living) dead

ejpollard wrote 1 month ago: In the chapter on ‘The Double’ in Nicholas Royle’s The Uncanny, the writing confro … more →

Tags: Jacques Derrida, Iterability, names, Signatures

Still Into You, Bacon. But Not Really.1 comment

emilyrebeccabarron wrote 1 month ago: Hello, people of the blogisverse (is that what this is, the blogisverse? Huh, I have a feeling I … more →

Tags: Writing, and stuff, Music and Stuff, Creative Writing, reading texts, Music, Paramore, Still Into You, bacon, Fairy Tales

Kate Gate and the culture of 'what you see as what you get'1 comment

ejpollard wrote 2 months ago: Over the weekend of the ‘Royal Wedding’ in April 2011 I was rereading Hilary Mantel … more →

Tags: David Cameron, duchess of cambridge, Hilary Mantel

The Sound of my Mind Blowing: The Self vs. The Other

emilyrebeccabarron wrote 2 months ago: “How am I not myself?” – I Heart Huckabees. Every Thursday for the past six weeks, … more →

Tags: Writing, and stuff, Creative Writing, English Lit, Graphic Novels, Self vs. Other, How am I not myself....., taxonology, ontology, Epistemology

Revamped, Emily Style!21 comments

emilyrebeccabarron wrote 2 months ago: I know what you’re all thinking. Emily, what happened to your header? Didn’t you already … more →

Tags: Writing, and stuff, revamped, girl's night in, the enigma that is boys, Live Blogging, Scary Movies, Junk Food

Is it possible to "know" something "outside" of yourself?26 comments

emilyrebeccabarron wrote 2 months ago: In Contemporary Writing we’re looking at Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild. It’s utterl … more →

Tags: Writing, and stuff, Harry Potter, Into the Wild, English Literature, krakauer, Christopher McCandless, the contemporary, utterly mind boggling, Pride and Prejudice

Poetry, Matt Haig and Contemporary Writing20 comments

emilyrebeccabarron wrote 3 months ago: I’ve been neglecting my blog to catch up on a hell of a lot of reading and for that I apologis … more →

Tags: Writing, and stuff, Poetry, The Radleys, fight club, Romantic Odes, Keats, Ode to a Nightingale, ode to melancholy, matt haig

Reading Texts II, Writing to Order and Contemporary Writing5 comments

emilyrebeccabarron wrote 3 months ago: Reading Texts this semester consists of poetry (the lovely works of Shakespeare, Donne, Rossetti and … more →

Tags: Writing, and stuff, Atonement, Bad Blood, Dunne, fight club, jekyll and hyde, Keates, Ranting, reading texts

A response to Robert McCrum's 'Commentary' on Bring Up the Bodies3 comments

ejpollard wrote 3 months ago: Last night Hilary Mantel won the 2012 Costa book of the year for Bring Up the Bodies. Yet there is t … more →

Tags: Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel, Robert McCrum

Semester Two, Picking Modules and Vampires1 comment

emilyrebeccabarron wrote 3 months ago: Uni has started up again, finally. I have missed this place so, so much. I’m already hungover, … more →

Tags: Writing, and stuff, Uni-life, jekyll and hyde, writing to order, reading texts two, cultures of childhood, Gothic and Horror, Bad Blood, The Radleys

Texspearean Experience--"Merchant of Venice"....Nana's version...Well, a Snippet Anyway! ;-)

kadja1 wrote 3 months ago: I am working on a contemporary version of the Merchant of Venice–by William Shakespeare. Howev … more →

Tags: Opinions, Life, Texas travel, Non-Fiction, College Life, Education & politics, Humor, Entertainment Life, Hollywood

Words and Silence

ejpollard wrote 3 months ago: I recently watched Sylvia (2003) directed by Christine Jeffs. It is a fascinating and inspiring film … more →

Tags: Crow, Ted Hughes, WorDs

Beautiful ideas...1 comment

ejpollard wrote 5 months ago: Read what is written here in this tattoo. It is worth the effort I promise… … more →

Tags: Beauty, Ideas!, tattoo

Today is the day of the memoir1 comment

ejpollard wrote 5 months ago: Jeanette Winterson wrote in her recent book Why be happy when you could be normal? that 1985 was … more →

Tags: consumer culture, jeanette winterson, memoir

Akala asked 'Who's the Gangster' at Manchester Metropolitan University1 comment

ejpollard wrote 5 months ago: Thursday 29th November 2012. This event was truly inspirational! If you want to know more… wat … more →

Tags: ellipsis, Akala, hip-hop, Shakespeare

The Unborn Author

ejpollard wrote 5 months ago: Roland Barthes wrote famously of the death of the author, but what if the author had never been born … more →

Tags: Roland Barthes, technology, writing

ILLUMINATIONS EXHIBITION 2012 - 2013

medea999 wrote 6 months ago: This is the link to a recording of my poetry which is part of the Illuminations Exhibition at NUI Ma … more →

Tags: Mary O'Donnell, Moya Cannon, Éilis Ni Dhuibhne, Dr. Colin Graham, NUI Maynooth, Iontas, Illuminations Exhibition 2012 - 2013

That post where I (sort of) tell you what I'm writing for NaNoWriMo and talk a lot about lifts.

Sas wrote 7 months ago: I’ve only ever been trapped in an elevator once. And, admittedly, it was only for about three … more →

Tags: writing, Nano 2012, Synopsis, NaNoWriMo, Creative Writing, Writing #2, Elevator Psychology


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