The following essays are a collection of my final projects in a series of Literature classes where I dabbled in critical analysis. It's a fun mind-set to be in.
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Exploring New Subject Positions Through Difference
The book I analyze here is Ender's Game, and I use theory from a ton of different sources: Lacan, Saussure, Cixous, Derrida, and others. It was the final project for my intro to Critical Theory class with Marc Geisler, genius.
Essentially, I explore a several themes in the book and state how they might be bending or subverting a traditional motif or binary that usually exists in literature.
Questions of Travel is a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, and this essay is my interpretation of it. There are several schools of thought in relation to how one should interpret poetry, and I suppose I drew a little bit from all of them.
Comparative Religion Essay
I took a class on Chinese/Japanese religions during my Sophomore year, and I had to write several research essays and timed writes based on the material we were learning. This was my final paper for that class.
