Posts Tagged "comparative literature"
homelessness: a long word that never ends
After living in elbi since 2001, I partly said goodbye in 2008 when my housemates and I gave up our apartment, which I seriously, seriously treated as my home.
So where does a homeless stay?
PASIG & QUEZON CITY
Read MoreWhat is Comparative Literature?
Dr. J.B. Schriever, the Europe-educated and European-looking professor who can speak French, German, Spanish, English, Filipino, and Batangas Tagalog (&c.) interchangeably, says it’s a methodology.
- the comparatists in the painful making
That affirms Damrosch’s claim that Comparative Literature is a mode of reading. So it’s not really an area of studies but a system of approaches to world literature.
But what is world literature? Oh, God, it took us a semester and a box of Dr Schriever’s rather expensive,
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On Edward Said’s Introduction to “The World, the Text, and the Critic”
A reading into the essay’s title suggests an organic relationship between the three. Perhaps a critic is someone who situates a text in the world? Perhaps the world produces a text which necessitates a critic? Or perhaps, where there is a text, there is inevitably the world and the critic?
Read Moreon Clements’ Comparative Literature as Academic Discipline: a statement of principles, praxis, standards
Just what do you do?
I have been answering this kind of question since college when I was enrolled in AB Communication Arts at the highly empiricist and positivist University of the Philippines in Los Baños. Depending on the level of curiosity and seriousness of the person asking, I would usually answer “communication theories,” or “training in advertising, public relations, journalism, and broadcasting,” or “trying our hands on creative and critical writing, acting, directing, in short prostituting ourselves to the Arts,” or “in day light I attend theory classes, come night time I’m in workshops or rehearsals or in solitary confinement (drafting papers),” or “marami, basta.”
Read MoreWho, Me?
Hello there! My name is Ai, Japanese for "love." I couldn't stay in one place for too long, so I'm always walking, traveling or changing address. I write for Australia's Campus Review, Education Review, Insite health care, and other magazines under APN. Before this, I was an editor of a quarterly rice science magazine and a weekly publication on international commodity trade in Singapore. But before everything else, I was an educator for five years.
