ABSENT STUDENTS

Dear Students,
I have been told today that if a student misses 15 hours class, he or she will not be able to attend the exams. So please be careful and attend the lectures.
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COMP Lit II Prezi's: Articles by Haun Saussy and Charles Bernheimer

For Comp Lit II and Seminar Novel Students: THE QUIZ

Dear Students,
I am NOT going to ask you about your knowledge on definitions,theories, names and dates.
What you have to do is to focus on the concepts. You should know what orientalism, occidentalism, colonialism, post-feminism, "the other", etc etc means and how you would apply them throughout your studies.
Try to  form clear, nice sentences formulating your own ideas and arguments.
See you tomorrow.
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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” ― Robert Frost

                            

Biography
Robert Frost spent his first 40 years as an unknown. He exploded on the scene after returning from England at the beginning of World War I.

Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and a special guest at President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, Frost became a poetic force and the unofficial "poet laureate" of the United States. He died of complications from prostate surgery on January 29, 1963.
source: https://www.biography.com/people/robert-frost-20796091

"The painter’s vision is not a lens, it trembles to caress the light." -Robert Lowell

                                             Epilogue, Robert Lowell, photo by Michael Friedman

Happy Birthday to Robert Lowell, (born March 1, 1917, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died September 12, 1977, New York), American poet noted for his complex, autobiographical poetry.
In his poetry Lowell expressed the major tensions—both public and private—of his time with technical mastery and haunting authenticity. His earlier poems, dense with clashing images and discordant sounds, convey a view of the world whose bleakness is relieved by a religious mysticism compounded as much of doubt as of faith. Lowell’s later poetry is composed in a more relaxed and conversational manner.
for more pls read: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Lowell-Jr

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. – Ralph Ellison, "The Invisible Man"

Ralph Waldo Ellison, (born March 1, 1914, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.—died April 16, 1994, New York, New York), American writer who won eminence with his first novel (and the only one published during his lifetime), Invisible Man (1952).

A milestone in American literature--a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. 

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.

source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ralph-Ellison

https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Man-Ralph-Ellison/dp/0679732764
                                    

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