Edwardian Literature -- Spring06

Story of an African Farm II and III & *Special Assignment* -- Through "Waldo Goes out to taste"

Hi everyone,

I have to cancel class for Thursday, which means that papers will be due
on Tuesday instead. I'll still come to collect papers for those who wish
to turn them in today.

*But before you start cheering* I have an additional assignment for you
for Tuesday's class. For those of you who aren't on the class email list
(and therefore didn't get the paper by email), please go the the university
library site and take the following steps:

(1) (If you are not on a university computer) Sign in by clicking "Not Logged
In" to the upper left and typing in your webid info.

(2) Click on "Find Articles" to the left --> "Indexes and Databases"

(3) Click on "M" or scroll down to select "MLA International Bibiography."
Click on it. Welcome to the wide world of literary criticism.

(4) Search for "Schreiner, Olive" -- this will return all articles written on
her.

(5) Scroll down to #5 -- an article by Moore-Gilbert "Olive Schreiner's Story
of an African Farm." Click on "Pdf full text below." This will give you a file
you can save and print.

(6) Print it out.

Now, once you have the article, I want you to read it and think about the following
things:

--What are the different critical perspectives on Schreiner's work? How would
you characterize them?

--How does Moore-Gilbert try to engage this field of opinions -- where does he
fit himself in?

--What do you think?

Below, you can discuss the new reading or talk about the article -- what was hard,
or interesting, or strong about it? I'll see you Tuesday.

-devin

posted by Devo @ 10:02 AM