Sunday, October 19, 2008

Beloved: I've read Beloved by Toni Morrison several times so far and I find it one of these books that every time you read it something new is revealed to you. as you read more and more into the book and over and over the plot, new interpretations and meanings seem to surface. it's really amazing and intellectually intriguing. So anyways, this time, i'm reading it in from a postcolonial standpoint. it's for my Researcg Writing class' first paper. i still have at least two left and i think i might go for the same novel actually but each paper will have different theory dominating its analysis. i'm thinking Marxism, Feminism, and Psychoanalytical theories. it should be fun to see how differnt theories would implicate different elements of the novels and help me read the same book in so many different and maybe contradicting ways. i'm really excited about this project since i've been meaning to do this for quiet a time but never got around to it. i think it's fascinating how literary critics come up with so many creative interpretations and implications of the same work that even the author hasn't thought about or had in mind when writing...

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