Monday, May 09, 2005

Cosmopolitan: The Drink


Well, this would seem to be the drink you were discussing in seminar: the blurb on the page says it all. (Via iVillage.co.uk/ "the website for women."
Wednesday it is ...

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

can the lads opt out of fish n' chips if we're allergic to the fish? Should make the pints more interesting

Dr. Stephen Ogden said...

Well, the "lad lunch" is another week anyway, but we'll have a selection -- meat pies for instance beside f'n c. Best advertising slogan ever? "Guinness is good for you!"

Anonymous said...

Guinness IS good for you.
Um, about yesterday's lecture...we started talking about relating to Villette or relating to Villett's narrator. I think my relation to the narrator went in and out -- at times I felt close to what she was going through, at other times I felt almost alienated from her experiences. I think this might have to do with the novel's uncanny aspect, that sort of familiar-but-totally-not-familiar-at-the-same-time kind of feeling. The book is dripping with death, death, death, which would likely add to its uncanny sensibilities. So while we might be relating to it at times, we're also pushed away by all the death talk. Good times.
I'd also like to comment on the passive narrator idea. What do we make of the Long Vacation chapter, for example, when the prose is saturated with the narrator's completely depressed and morbid state of mind? Unlike previous chapters which seemed to focus on other characters, this chapter is very internal -- getting directly into the head of the narrator, and the narrator's intimate closeness to death.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the drinks and chocolate! :)

Anonymous said...

Poking the fire, although Snowe is reserved in her actions against other women in the text, she still conflicts a great deal with them, if only in her mind, and in these emotions, there is an unquestionable competition between her and the other women (clearly seen during the play) which would attack Darwin's Theory (yeah I'm going to Scientoligist hell I know) Snowe's mind works in circles, wanting escape but wanting to be suppressed, wanting to be alone, but wanting to be loved....

Dr. Stephen Ogden said...

Most welcome for the goodies: thank-you all for an excellent class.