Author Archive | Andrew H.

Coming into English 299, I really had no idea what to expect. I hadn’t read any course descriptions or anything like that, so I REALLY had no clue what I was getting into: all i knew was that it was a requirement for my creative writing major. Upon reading the syllabus, I thought it was […]

“All My Loving”: The Beatles’ Evolution From Romantic Love to Romantic Universalism in Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe Julie Taymor’s fantasy/drama film Across the Universe (2007) is a musical, utilizing thirty-four Beatles’ songs all sung and performed by the actors as its sonic framework. Against the backdrop of the 1960s counterculture, this film follows a […]

I thought that the talks from both Dr. Seaman and Dr. Bruns really provided me with a better understanding of what actually goes on in the realm of English Studies. I found it very interesting that someone with a doctorate, specifically Dr. Seaman, still has to persuade her colleagues that a more avant-garde area of […]

Andrew Halley Professor Vander Zee English 299 / Proposal 28 March 2016 “All My Loving”: Romantic Universalism in Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe Julie Taymor’s fantasy/drama film Across the Universe (2007) is a musical, utilizing thirty-four Beatles’ songs, all sung and performed by the actors, as its sonic framework. Against the backdrop of the 1960’s […]

Sue-Im Lee’s scholarly article “We Are Not the World”: Global Village, Universalism, and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange begins with a passage from the novel, specifically from the character Arcangel: “I do not defend my title for the rainbow of children of the world. This is not a benefit for UNESCO. We are not […]

Upon reading Chapter 2 of Karen Tei Yamashita’s novel Tropic of Orange I was immediately reminded of the concept known as “postcolonialism” from Nealon and Giroux’s The Theory Toolbox. The character we are introduced to, Bobby, a “Chinese from Singapore with a Vietnam name speaking like a Mexican living in Koreatown” (Yamashita 15), is a […]

While I was reading the chapter entitled “Post” from Nealon and Giroux’s “The Theory Toolbox”, I stumbled across a very intriguing quote: “Maybe all this suggests a postmodern insistence on process rather than a product: A “postmodern” cultural artifact is one that consistently questions itself and the context that it seems to fit within. Perhaps, […]

Before I started delving into the readings assigned for this blog post, I took a glance at the reading schedule (formally known as “2016 Schedule” on the ENGL 299 website) and had a feeling that I was going to be writing about the chapter entitled “Subjectivity”. Well, here I am, writing about subjectivity.   We […]