Greetings once again!
It's been a while since my last post, it seems. But in any case, I'm feeling a bit nostalgic today and thus decided to blog about some of my history with what I consider to be one of the greatest fictional universes of all time: the world inhabited by Bruce Wayne, a.k.a. Batman, as well his his many allies and enemies.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The Bechdel Test: Questions on how to improve it
Greetings once again, and happy December!
I've been negligent in my blogging, I know -- the end-of-semester crunch will do that to you. But I have been mulling over some interesting topics to post about, and hopefully I'll get to a few of them now that school and work have begun to get a bit less hectic on my end.
This past spring, I took a literature class where we read many examples of different types of literature. One of those was Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alyson Bechdel. The book was a graphic memoir -- a memoir written as a graphic novel -- and contained many references to other literary works that dealt with gender issues and sexuality. Our main goal in studying Fun Home was to look at the literary works referenced in the story (be they classic novels, films, comic books, or other media) and see what parallels we could draw between the content and themes of those works and Bechdel's story. Along the way, my professor mentioned Bechdel's idea about criteria that would indicate fair representation of women in fiction. While randomly surfing around TVTropes (as has been a hobby of mine for the past few years), I happened across a page indicating that the criteria my professor mentioned were actually quite well-known among those who analyze literature.
I've been negligent in my blogging, I know -- the end-of-semester crunch will do that to you. But I have been mulling over some interesting topics to post about, and hopefully I'll get to a few of them now that school and work have begun to get a bit less hectic on my end.
This past spring, I took a literature class where we read many examples of different types of literature. One of those was Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alyson Bechdel. The book was a graphic memoir -- a memoir written as a graphic novel -- and contained many references to other literary works that dealt with gender issues and sexuality. Our main goal in studying Fun Home was to look at the literary works referenced in the story (be they classic novels, films, comic books, or other media) and see what parallels we could draw between the content and themes of those works and Bechdel's story. Along the way, my professor mentioned Bechdel's idea about criteria that would indicate fair representation of women in fiction. While randomly surfing around TVTropes (as has been a hobby of mine for the past few years), I happened across a page indicating that the criteria my professor mentioned were actually quite well-known among those who analyze literature.
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