Regionalism on the East and West Coasts

                                                                      Pauline Hopkins

                                                 

                                                                        Sui Sin Far

English 3318 students:

For Week Six's blog, by midnight on Saturday, October 1, please post a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs comparing and contrasting the city settings of Pauline Hopkins's "Talma Gordon" (762-73), which is set in Boston on the East Coast, and Sui Sin Far's "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" (908-17), which is set in Seattle and San Francisco on the West Coast. How do these unique places with their distinct social environments figure in these narratives?  Please use as least two quotations from each story (in other words, at least four total) in your comment. 

Keep in mind as you compose your comment that "Talma Gordon," widely acknowledged to be the first Black-authored American mystery story, contains obvious echoes of the most infamous Massachusetts real-life, murder mystery that had happened four years before the publication of "Talma Gordon": the brutal double murders of a very wealthy father and stepmother allegedly at the hands of one of their two heirs--a New England "spinster" named Lizzie Borden, who was accused of killing them with a hatchet. That actual case ended with an acquittal although Borden was likely guilty. Here is a link for an article about the details of this infamous case:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-19th-century-axe-murderer-lizzie-borden-was-found-not-guilty-180972707/ 

After you publish your comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments.

Thank you,

Dr. K

Nature in Regionalism

     

                                            An Iconic North Carolina Pine Tree: Sandy's Spirit

                                                      Pine School-house in North Carolina

                                             
                                  New England's standard of beauty: quaint, plain, white church,
               accenting nature, especially during autumn, rather than competing aesthetically with it.

                                     
                  A classic New England cottage, just like Louisa's in "A New England Nun"


English 3318 students:

For Week Five's blog, by midnight on Saturday, September 24, please post a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs comparing and contrasting the depictions of nature, architecture, and characters in Mary Wilkins Freeman's "A New England Nun" (639-49) and Charles Chesnutt's "Po' Sandy" (733-40). Please use as least two quotations from each story (in other words, at least four total) in your comment. The topic here is very flexible and subjective. Be creative! 

After you publish your comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments.

Thank you,

Dr. K

Moral Pragmatism in Realism

                        

English 3318 students:

For our Week Four blog, before midnight on Saturday, September 17, please submit a comment describing what Huck learns about human nature in these two chapters of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

1.  Chapter XV (pp.170-4)
2.  Chapter XXXI (pp. 251-6)

Your comment should be at least two well-developed paragraphs, containing direct quotations from these chapters.

After you post your comment, please reply to at least one of the other students' comments. (Make your reply at least one well-developed paragraph.)

Reminder: please finish reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by the end of this week. We will be moving on to regionalism next week.

Thank you,
Dr. K

The First Three Chapters of Twain's Realist Masterpiece

 

  

English 3318 students:

At some time before the end of this week (midnight on Saturday, September 10th), please publish a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs about how Huck guides readers to question the kind of entertainment found in Romantic adventure novels that glorify violence, which Tom Sawyer introduces to Huck and the other boys in Chapters I-III of  Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (119-29). 

After you publish your comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments.

Be sure to compose your comment and reply in a Word document or in an email, so that if you have any problems publishing your comment and reply, you can keep trying until it works. If it will not work after several tries, please email your comment and reply to me: linda.kornasky@angelo.edu. I will be glad to publish them on your behalf.

Thank you,

Dr. Kornasky