Sunday, December 14, 2014

Getting Started

We have covered so much in English 280 that when I sat down to start outlining my final project I was overwhelmed to say the least.  The Bedford Anthology we lugged to class every day did a great job including a wide range of texts and covering a good deal of American history at the same time.  However, despite all of the literature we covered this semester there is also so much American literature we did not get to.  This is why this blog is titled “To Infinity and Beyond.”  Although this is a Buzz Lightyear catchphrase I love applying this idea when looking at something I think has infinite possibilities.  American Literature cannot be confined to a single book or class, as the Bedford Anthology and ENG 280 admit.  

With that being said, the posts on this blog will not attempt to completely define or characterized the entirety of American Literature.  My goal for this project is to go back and examine the texts we have covered this semester to pick up on themes that stick out to me personally, the ones that I feel most inspired to right about.  It is from there that I will work to make connections between texts and try to draw new insight from my analyses. 

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