The following post is, as promised, the first in a series of posts that describe my analysis of the reader’s position in spy literature. The first story text I’m looking at is the short story Paper Casualty by Len Deighton. My copy of the story came from the Oxford Book of Spy Stories.
Paper Casualty [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Spy Fiction Pt. 1
Posted in Books on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Where does the reader go?
Posted in Essays on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Great, so school’s finally slowed down a bit, and I can get some writing done for here. Speaking of school, actually, I had my last essay due this week and I found the word count to be really restricting. I was really interested in my topic and found that I had to leave out some [...]
Bitstrips Clarified
Posted in Articles, Miscellaneous on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is an e-mail I sent in reply to a comment that was made on my previous post about Bitstrips. My hope in posting this is that it clears up the points I was trying to make, because yes, I did seem overwhelmingly harsh. So here it is:
First off I want to say thanks for [...]
The Future of the Blog
Posted in Miscellaneous on April 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Unless my current internet connection becomes more reliable, I think that this will be my last official post for THST 2450, the class that required me to start this blog.
Calm down though, because this is not the end of the blog, or my posts, or anything like that. With its grounding as an academic assignment, [...]
The Yes Men
Posted in Movies on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Watching the Yes Men always gets me really excited. Maybe it’s because I like rooting for the underdog, and maybe it’s because I agree with their cause. I also thinks it’s possible because I like being in on the joke and to watch people get duped. Any way you look at it, this leads to [...]
