The use of Humour in Cordelia Strube’s ‘Milosz’
The writing may be informal but the content must be analytic; that is, you should be trying to figure out something, break it down or relate it to your own experience in a way that helps you better understand either the text or your own life.
Your reading wiki should function as a site for thinking about “reading for meaning”; what you are really doing here is using writing as a form of inquiry. If you do a thoughtful job, your wiki will be a source of questions to ask the authors when they come, and cumulatively a record of your learning and rich source of ideas for the final exam. It is important to remember that there are many interpretation and many possible meanings – there is no single ‘right’ answer. Every text investigates a number of issues and concerns. Most works of literature are concerned with what it means to be human: what makes us tick? how do we behave? why?
To get started, here are a number of writing prompts:
1. Try to articulate the question/problem you think that the author is trying to work out, and then try to figure out how that question/problem affects the characters in the narrative.
2. Choose a passage or a poem you want to examine closely and respond closely. (This involves using specific examples, phrases and interpreting their possible meaning(s).)
