RLML-OED-Criticism

I didn't realize we were supposed to post on this stuff, so I'm doing it a bit late.

1. I really liked the RBML and am going back soon to see the Jane Eyre books we were supposed to see on Thursday but didn't get to.

2. OED word: "straw" from Sir Philip Sidney's "Sonnet IX"

3. Criticism review--I still don't know but I'm looking over them carefully to see which one I like best.

Stacy

Post!

1.) I saw they had some Goya sketches/engravings - I love Goya and would REALLY like to see them.

2.) My OED word, pending approval, is "flimsy" from Kim Addonizio's What do Women Want?

3.) I'll be focusing on Eve Sedgwick's English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, mostly likely, though I am interested in some of the feminist works on Hamlet. Going to figure both the OED word and the crit piece for sure this weekend because I have been absolutely SWAMPED with midterms work.


- Emma Stein

Rare Books, OED, Criticism Review

1) I would love to see the Plimpton Manuscript 296 if possible.

2) I would like to focus on the word "vacuitie" in Milton's Paradise Lost. I would like to focus on it's meaning as an internal emptiness, in addition to the definition of an emptiness of space.

3) For my criticism review I will focus on Patricia Parker's Othello and Hamlet: Dilation, Spying, and the "Secret Place" of Women.

RBML, OED, Criticism

1) I went into the RBML search engine trying to find the most thing possible and came up with a sound recording of Allen Ginsberg performing William Blake's poems. Tennessee Williams' manuscript for Streetcar Named Desire would also be interesting!

2) I would like to explore the subtext of the American Prohibition in 'Her Lips Are Copper Wire' through the alcohol-related definitions of either "licker" or tape."

3) Cathy Caruth: Unclaimed Experience, probably the chapter on Hiroshima Mon Amour.

RBLM - OED - Criticism

1) RBLM: So, after several unsuccessful search queries involving words like “Rings,” “Hobbit,” and “Narnia,” I decided that, tomorrow I hope to thumb through manuscripts belonging to the late Jack Kerouac. (http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4078982/summary)

2) OED Word: “peep” from John Donne’s Sonnet XVIII “Show me, dear Christ”

3) Criticism: Sedgwick’s Between Men

Rare Books/OED/Criticism

1. RARE BOOK/MANUSCRIPT: I stumbled upon an entry in the Rare Books Library of a Random House record that includes manuscripts of Robert Browning, whose poem, "Porphyria's Lover," was one of the two that I used for my Poetry Comparison Essay.

2. OED word: "labour" in John Donne's "Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed"

3. CRITICISM: Probably Cathy Caruth's "Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History"

Three Things

1.) I can't really think of anything in particular I'd like to see at the RBML. Sad right? Maybe I'll come up with something by tomorrow's seminar.

2.) My OED word is "legend" found in Donne's "The Canonization." I plan to focus on the definitions of legend as "the story of the life of a saint" and "a book of readings or 'lessons' for use at divine service." This notion of legend as something that is written--not just a history, story, or account transmitted orally--is interesting to me, especially when considering the idea that Donne wanted not only to canonize his love but the poem (the written verse) itself.

3.) For my criticism review, I am writing on Eve Sedgwick's English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, either the Introduction or Chapter 1.

Hope everyone's surviving midterms!

-Devon