Author Archive | Keleigh

Although the writers were sometimes jaded, the Theory Toolbox’s approach led me to make new discoveries in my own reading and writing that I will find valuable throughout the rest of my life as I apply their skeptical criticisms to other works. When a lot of my education has been through absorbing the ideas and […]

Hopeless?: Existentialism and Absurdism in Albert Camus’ L’Étranger Albert Camus’ philosophical novel, L’Étranger, involves a careless individual by the name of Mersault who seems to stand idly by as events persistently occur around him. His attitude towards life is devoid of all meaning and ultimately leads to his execution, which he remains indifferent toward and […]

Professor Seaman engaged us by summarizing her paper linked in the schedule as well as explaining how her general field of literature brought her to her consensus about “post-humanism,” in which the notions that humans are the most interesting and subject are displaced, and how this idea of post-humanism compares to the pre-humanist medieval times. […]

Hopeless?: Existentialism and Absurdism in Albert Camus’ L’Étranger Albert Camus’ philosophical novel, L’Étranger, involves a careless individual by the name of Mersault whom seems to stand idly by as events persistently occur around him. His attitude towards life is devoid of all meaning and ultimately leads to his execution, which he remains indifferent toward and […]

In Lee’s article, “We are not the World” she discusses the ideology of universalism and the “global village” in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange. She uses evidence from the novel to support her argument that universalism is often construed as either an oppressive or progressive force but ultimately falls short of promises, which is […]

As an element of postmodern style, magical realism adds an interesting layer of metaphor to a piece of writing such as Tropic of Orange. As explained in B&G, magical realism often includes magical or unrealistic elements to a fiction world based in reality with little to no context, often considering them a very mundane and […]

Just like an many other chapter of the Theory Toolbox, the writer poses many interesting ideologies and pushes us – the readers – to draw our own conclusions about what is being presented. However, this time more than usual the writer seems to have a forthright concept to share that deserves a bit or critiquing, […]

In psychology, I remember greatly discussing memories and how they can be untrustworthy. Basically, the more you call an event to memory, the more it is tampered with. So actually, the things you don’t remember so well or haven’t thought about in years are your safest and most true-to-reality memories. I think the same can […]

The reading for today poses an interesting theory that questions not only the capacity of authorship but more importantly, of the reader. To quote TT quoting Friedrich Nietzche, “facts… do not exist, only interpretations.” While one may blindly assume reading is nothing more than a means of consumption, it is ignorant to assume that anything can be consumed […]