Sunday, December 10, 2006
Last Post!
Well so I just finished my author’s biography. After finding that story in the back of the library so fast I was sure finding information on her wouldn’t cause much difficulty and it wasn’t that bad… but there really wasn’t much out there on her. Every single site I looked at had the exact same paragraph on it. It was kind of frustrating but I think now I have enough and it’s a page long and has all the details I really could need. After I finished that, I looked up George Berkeley whose philosophies matched exactly what I expected so that was kind of neat. He talks about how people perceive the world and how everything we see is just what we expect to see but its not really there which fits perfectly into the story. So now I’m looking at the two stories and tying to form comparisons/ my thesis.
Thursday, December 7, 2006
I’ve decided to compare two of Liliana Hecker’s short stories. I really like both of them and I think talking about the curiosity and the naivety of the young girls in the stories will be really interesting. Next I need to still look of that philosopher and write a list of the themes of both and see where they over lap cause they do a lot even though the stories are very different. Both girls really see the world in a new, unfriendly, light by the last few paragraphs of the story. What they knew as real was proven false creating a much unexpected twist. I’m looking forward to the project. I really like the two stories I picked.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Yay!! I finally get to do a new and different post!! So today I class I stumbled across this new author I really liked, Liliana Heker. I read her short story “Berkley or Mariana of the Universe” which I really liked and according to Ms. Voss I am now supposed to look up the philosopher Berkley and read it again which is kind of exciting. She also helped me find the other story which I haven’t got a chance to read yet but it’s called “The Stolen Party.” Next is to read the story and see how they compare and contrast and if they don’t see if the first story works with any of the others I have been reading as well as look up this philosopher.
Website is about Clarice Lispector
Author: This website was written by Rachel Gutierrez. She is a native Spanish speaker and has a masters in philosophy and has spent much time studying poetry as well as writing her own poems.
Audience: The audience is for an English speaking audience, it is guided for high school aged students and older.
Scholarship: The writing is well written but a bit disorganized. It looks as if the time line was copied and pasted from a different website.
Bias: I could not find a bias anywhere on this site.
Currency: I could not find a publishing date or a last updated date which was disappointing. The sites she cited were mainly from the 1980s which at first seemed way out dated but when I realized the Clarice Lispector died in 1977 then that was as current as you could get.
Link: Although there were not many links all the links worked. There were links that gave short biographies of the author and the translator of the site, as well as a home page.
Final Assessment: At first I really liked this site it seemed to have a lot of varied information about the author but the more I examined it the more varied information began to look very disorganized and unprofessional. There was no good lay out and it don’t know how much I trust this random author or her translator. The home page site didn’t look very creditable either. There are parts of the site (quotes etc) that I thought were interesting. I also would like to use the timeline however I could find that on another cite. If there was something that I found only on that site I would probably do some research on what the home page organization is before I used it in research and also check if the timeline was accurate.
Author: This website was written by Rachel Gutierrez. She is a native Spanish speaker and has a masters in philosophy and has spent much time studying poetry as well as writing her own poems.
Audience: The audience is for an English speaking audience, it is guided for high school aged students and older.
Scholarship: The writing is well written but a bit disorganized. It looks as if the time line was copied and pasted from a different website.
Bias: I could not find a bias anywhere on this site.
Currency: I could not find a publishing date or a last updated date which was disappointing. The sites she cited were mainly from the 1980s which at first seemed way out dated but when I realized the Clarice Lispector died in 1977 then that was as current as you could get.
Link: Although there were not many links all the links worked. There were links that gave short biographies of the author and the translator of the site, as well as a home page.
Final Assessment: At first I really liked this site it seemed to have a lot of varied information about the author but the more I examined it the more varied information began to look very disorganized and unprofessional. There was no good lay out and it don’t know how much I trust this random author or her translator. The home page site didn’t look very creditable either. There are parts of the site (quotes etc) that I thought were interesting. I also would like to use the timeline however I could find that on another cite. If there was something that I found only on that site I would probably do some research on what the home page organization is before I used it in research and also check if the timeline was accurate.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
sooo...after i typed the second one i found the first one...i had "saved it as a draft" and not published..i think they are very very simular....
Web Page on Clarice Lipector
Author:
The author of this website is Rachel Gutierrez a native Spanish speaker who has received a masters degree in philosophy. She has been active in the feminist movement and has studies poetry as well as written her own. I think that she would be knowledgeable enough to be considered creatable. what i liked about the website is that it had a link to her name where they had her biography. The only concern I have is whether or not everything she said was translated correctly.
Audience: Her language is mature but understandable appealing to an audience of high schoolers and older. There are pictures and quotes from books and short stories which makes the website more interesting for all viewers.
Scholarship: There is an time line on the web page which looks like it could have been copied and pasted on to the site. Although this would not be a scholarly thing to do, it seems as though she took it from a scholarly source. I would see if i could find another time line to see if it matched up first though. A lot of the quotes from the books are still in Spanish(Portuguese?) But there are also quotes from her from past interviews which are very interesting.
Bias: There seems to be no Bias, She uses quotes and examples from books and other authors to talk about Clarice but there is nothing saying anything very opinionated.
Currency: I could not find the exact date the the page was published, or last updated. but all the resources that she used were mainly from the 1980's and since the author died in 1977 the information was as current as can be.
Links: There aren't that many links but all of them work. You can find information about the author of the site and go back to the main site. there is also information about one of her stories that you can look at through the link.
Assessment: At first i thought the site was pretty creditable but the more and more i looked at it the more apprehensive i got. When going back to look at the home page it did not look creditable at all, maybe because it seemed different from American web-pages but even to begin with the author was no professor even though she was educated. If there was really unusual information that talked about her impact on Latin America or Latin American customs i would maybe use it but since it looks like its mostly information i could find on a more creatable site i think I'm passing on this one.
Web Page on Clarice Lipector
Author:
The author of this website is Rachel Gutierrez a native Spanish speaker who has received a masters degree in philosophy. She has been active in the feminist movement and has studies poetry as well as written her own. I think that she would be knowledgeable enough to be considered creatable. what i liked about the website is that it had a link to her name where they had her biography. The only concern I have is whether or not everything she said was translated correctly.
Audience: Her language is mature but understandable appealing to an audience of high schoolers and older. There are pictures and quotes from books and short stories which makes the website more interesting for all viewers.
Scholarship: There is an time line on the web page which looks like it could have been copied and pasted on to the site. Although this would not be a scholarly thing to do, it seems as though she took it from a scholarly source. I would see if i could find another time line to see if it matched up first though. A lot of the quotes from the books are still in Spanish(Portuguese?) But there are also quotes from her from past interviews which are very interesting.
Bias: There seems to be no Bias, She uses quotes and examples from books and other authors to talk about Clarice but there is nothing saying anything very opinionated.
Currency: I could not find the exact date the the page was published, or last updated. but all the resources that she used were mainly from the 1980's and since the author died in 1977 the information was as current as can be.
Links: There aren't that many links but all of them work. You can find information about the author of the site and go back to the main site. there is also information about one of her stories that you can look at through the link.
Assessment: At first i thought the site was pretty creditable but the more and more i looked at it the more apprehensive i got. When going back to look at the home page it did not look creditable at all, maybe because it seemed different from American web-pages but even to begin with the author was no professor even though she was educated. If there was really unusual information that talked about her impact on Latin America or Latin American customs i would maybe use it but since it looks like its mostly information i could find on a more creatable site i think I'm passing on this one.
Monday, December 4, 2006
Today I looked at two books on that was the vintage boo of Latin American short stories and the other was a book of short storied written by female Latin American authors about the mystical and the real. The second book is the one that I spent the most time looking at. I read a few short stories. One that interested me was “The Unborn Child” which was about a mothers and her relationship with a child she aborted. Surprisingly I was reading another short story called “The Virgin’s Passion” and one of the first few sentences had an abortion reference. The two stories could probably be contrasted well and I decided to go back and look at them in depth later. I ended up making copies of two stories, one from each book, that were written by Clarice Lispector. I thought if I read two stories by the same author I would have an easier time finding themes that ran through both stories. So tonight I’m going to read her short story “Love” and “Looking for Some Dignity” and hopefully I can find some themes, and if not, I will go back and re-read the other stories tomorrow in class.
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