Author: Erin Penney

We are all familiar with the horror trope of the stupid family that refuses to leave the haunted house. In House of Leaves, the Navidsons are that stupid family that refuses to leave the haunted house. Will, along with his girlfriend Karen,… Continue Reading → Read more →

I know last week when the subject of braille was brought up, we ultimately decided it was because having braille in a mass-manufactured book with thin pages would be impractical. However, I also think that there is some symbolic significance… Continue Reading → Read more →

This question may have been asked a billion times before in reference to House of Leaves and answered quite easily, but I still have to ask: Why is the word “house” blue throughout the book? At first I thought it was… Continue Reading → Read more →

Through using Bubblelines, we noticed a variety of interesting patterns while analyzing Selling Manhattan and The World’s Wife. One of the first things we noticed is that the word “he” appears more than the word “she” in The World’s Wife,… Continue Reading → Read more →

When I did my research on “An Old Atheist Places His Last Bet” in MARBL, I found a lot of history behind the poem, including rough drafts and predecessors that gave insight into Carol Ann Duffy’s though process when she… Continue Reading → Read more →

I went to the Carol Ann Duffy poetry reading this weekend, and I found that there is such a difference made in hearing the poetry read aloud by the author. Whether that difference is for the better is certainly debatable…. Continue Reading → Read more →

Previously, I explored the idea of what the Carol Ann Duffy poem “An Old Atheist Places His Last Bet” means depending on who’s narrating it (atheist or god). Studying Duffy’s notebook where drafts of the poem are written gave insight into my… Continue Reading → Read more →

I found that there are two possibilities for the speaker in Carol Ann Duffy’s “An Old Atheist Places His Last Bet”: the atheist mentioned in the title, or a god. And there are very different meanings for the same words… Continue Reading → Read more →

In class, the suggestion of Mrs. Dalloway‘s intentional boring qualities stuck out to me. I’m not the biggest fan of the “upper class housewife has a few problems” genre, and I spent most of my time reading this book either 1) waiting for… Continue Reading → Read more →

It’s difficult to dog paddle the stream of consciousness that is Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Trying to map where characters are geographically proves a difficult task because of this. While the story jumps around in time and space, it is consistently focused on… Continue Reading → Read more →