Harper Lewis
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I'm a subversive weirdo nerd witch who loves rocks. Intrusive rhyme bothers me. Some of my fiction may have provoked divorce proceedings in another state.š
My words are mine. Suggest ai use and get eviscerated.
MA English literature, CofC
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The Class that Kicked my Ass
The most difficult undergraduate course I took was Linguistics, and the most difficult graduate school course for me was History and Theory of Rhetoric. The language of language was difficult to learn; itās dense, it has its own symbols. Diagramming and scansion are only the tip of the iceberg. Gaining a basic understanding of inflection and the difference between inflected and uninflected language was an easy threshold, as were consonance and asonance (weāll go in-depth with those very soon). When we got down to phonemes and their meanings, I was out of my depth. Iām returning to the text now, hoping to gain passage through thresholds previously impenetrable.
By Harper Lewis15 days ago in Education
My Favorite Essay
I return to this essay each spring, scattering my ink under Eliotās. I remember Dr. Evansās shock at my love for Eliot. It seemed incongruent with my love of Mark Twain and Steinbeck and all of those early loves who stole my heart with strong voices. Eliot employs voice differently than fiction writers, and for me, the voice of āTradition and the Individual Talentā feels like the canon itself is speaking, directly to me, as if I am the recipient of a love letter from literature itself. When Wally (Dr. Evans) referred to Eliot (and Emerson and Hume) as stuffy old bastards, it was my turn to react with shock. Iām sure I looked at him like he had three heads or a tuba growing out of one ear. I feel an intimacy when I read Eliot. āJourney of the Magiā brought me to tears the first time I read it.
By Harper Lewis17 days ago in Writers
