Milk and Honey Blog 3

In reading Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, I have come to find that intertextual codes manifest themselves differently in a collection of poetry as opposed to more story-driven works of narrative fiction. That is, the dynamics that allow a writer to employ these intertextual codes in a typical work of fiction are altered when approaching [...]

Driver’s Ed Blog 4

In Caroline Cooney’s young adult novel Driver’s Ed, Cooney plays with the relationship between writer, narrator and audience. As discussed in blog 2, the genre of young adult fiction opens itself to interesting opportunities for the experienced reader. While works of adult fiction play with multiple levels of complexity in both narrative and subtext, young [...]

Seconds Blog #1

Seconds is a graphic novel that follows the life of Katie Clay, a 29-year-old chef who runs a restaurant named Seconds. Despite running the most successful and popular restaurant in town, Katie is plagued by her own thoughts. A perpetual dreamer, she is constantly caught up in her visions of the future, as well as [...]

“Sleepless Nights” Blog 2

In describing the aspects of form, Burke claims that a well-written work will "lead a reader to anticipate another part, to be gratified by the sequence". Elizabeth Hardwick's Sleepless Nights, however, does not contain a plot. Its sequence is neither concrete nor chronological. However, this does not mean that a sequence cannot be anticipated by a reader. [...]