Tag: romancestudies
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Conclusion | My Thoughts on RMST 202
Hey Everyone, I can’t believe this is the last time I’m adding to this 20 paged google doc. After 11 readings and 13 blog posts, we have finished this course! I remember being so intimidated by the contract at the beginning of this course that I was ready to drop the course before I started.…
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My Brilliant Friend Examined Through a Gossip Girl Lense
Hey Everyone, Wow, this novel had a lot to unpack. It covers sociological concepts like the reproduction of inequality, as well as romance, betrayal, and jealousy through the story of friendship. The friendship between Lila and Elena reminded me of the Gossip Girl characters Blair and Serena, as these young women navigate their changing lives…
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Soldiers of Salamis | Writing Styles, Rule of Four, and Ethics
Hey Everyone, Writing this week’s blog post has been the absolute worst for me. To start off, I read and completed my blog post for next week by accident. Then, WordPress stopped working. Anyways, I found this reading really interesting. I finished it in about 3 separate sittings (with some short breaks on my phone),…
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Amulet | Dust, Teeth, Kissing, and Bathrooms?
Hey everyone, The fact that this novel starts with “This is going to be a horror story,” made me expect to feel fear while reading this. Elements of the horror usually include suspense or surprise but the narrator was right in saying that the way this story is told was not nearly as scary to…
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The Old Gringo | Downloaded off a “Sus” Website
Hey Everyone, I decided to download this book as a PDF from the internet, which caused some very strange spacing issues. Throughout the book, there were gaps that I don’t think were meant to be there as well as paragraphs separated mid-sentence. While this likely negatively impacted my overall reading experience, I really enjoyed this…
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The Memory of Childhood | “VV” or “W” Debate
Hi Everyone, This week I decided to read some blog posts by you guys before writing my own. I found it really interesting to see that there was a large divide between people who enjoyed the ‘double story’ style of this novel and the people who found it confusing. I personally have a lot of…
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The Time of The Doves: The Most Irritating Character I’ve Ever Read
Hey Everyone, I hope you all had a restful reading break. I spent the past week really taking my time to read The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda. This book has somehow taken the longest for me to read so far, possibly because I had the most time to read it. I found…
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Bonjour Tristesse: A Relatable Narrator with an Unrelatable Story
With each reading we have read, the easier and more enjoyable they are. I wonder if I’m getting better at reading translated works, as I originally found them tricky to digest, or if they are simply more interesting or are written using easier language. Perhaps for this one, it’s the fact that the narrator is…
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Agostino: A 13-Year-Old’s Coming of Age Story
The uncomfortable and intimate relationship between a mother and son in Agostino felt similar to that of Swann’s way. Yet, Agostino’s desire for his mother was much more sexual. To begin, I noticed there was a lot of language about bodies, particularly women’s bodies. This, in combination with the crying and nakedness of the body…
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Paris Peasant: Unrelated Notes without Deeper Understanding
Hey Everyone, I found myself highlighting almost half of every page while reading Paris Peasant. All that and I still don’t understand the main concept. This is often the case for me when it comes to reading mixed-media pieces, as they do not necessarily make up a single story rather many small stories that intertwine. …
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