Beckettian tragicomedy

Using Aristotle's, Plato's, and modern ideas on tragedy and comedy, as well as your own knowledge of genre and Waiting for Godot, write a definition of "Beckettian tragicomedy". Feel free to comment on other groups' definitions!

FfMC 5th instalment

Same thing as the previous blog post but for the fifth instalment! Due Friday, February 11th.

Far from the Madding Crowd - 4th instalment

Choose a quotation from the fourth instalment (chapters XV-XX).  Remind us what chapter it comes from, then explain briefly why you chose it.  Feel free to comment on other quotations!  Due by Monday, January 23rd.

Voice lesson on detail (2)

Consider:
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
    W. H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts”

Task: substitute another general term for suffering in the first line (e.g. laziness, happiness…).  Now rewrite the fourth line with details about the opposite condition of your term.  Share your new stanza on the blog and comment on one other stanza.  Due 18/11.

Voice lesson on detail

Choose a color and describe a scene using at least three varieties of that color.  Try to mix details of landscape and people.  Share your description with the class on the blog, and comment on at least one other blog post (effects created through the use of detail, effectiveness...).  Due by Wednesday, October 5th (both your blog post and your reaction to another post).