Final Reflection
Anytime I mentioned this class to friends or family this semester, I was always met by confusion (“Body bodies?”), many questions (“why would you take a class like that?”), and even groans at the pun of the name; I think […]
Anytime I mentioned this class to friends or family this semester, I was always met by confusion (“Body bodies?”), many questions (“why would you take a class like that?”), and even groans at the pun of the name; I think […]
I absolutely love language, so this research was so fun, and going back to the text to find examples was highly entertaining. Hope you enjoy too! As purists in the Renaissance worked to revive the Latin language of classical antiquity, […]
I’m very happy with the way this presentation went! I was worried that people would not want to speak up, and that the discussion would flop, but we got had some really thoughtful and new comments (from Elinor and Helena […]
For this appetizer presentation, I’m interested in looking at the parodies of Church liturgy/music/the Bible and so forth as Bakhtin mentions in his list of the carnivalesque. As a Catholic myself, I want to explore some of these parodies and […]
I am mostly very pleased with my presentation and the discussion that ensued! I think I did well with the timing, and got through what I meant to in the time I had. I think that it the discussion was […]
With this presentation, I hope to go more in depth about what ancient comedy (Greek and Roman) was like when actually performed on a stage, not just on the page. I often have the tendency while reading to assume characters […]