Hey everyone! I’m so excited to do this first blog entry and get started with the course! This week’s reading, Marcel Proust’s “Combray” was genuinely like stepping into a whole new universe and was so different compared to anything I’ve read before. It was tough and there were moments of difficulty reading the text but […]
Initially delving into the pages of Proust’s “Combray” was confusing and complex for me, his text definitely requires a slow and careful read. I found his storytelling to be similar to a puzzle, a bit perplexing but equally enchanting. However, upon further reading, and being able to understand the text, I enjoyed the chaoticness of […]
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The first thing that struck me when reading Proust’s Combray was how smooth, continuous, and flowing the prose was. While many books are cut up quite finely by short sentences, paragraph breaks, and general changes in topic, Combray reads like one smooth flow. It features very long sentences and paragraphs, and it moves through descriptionContinue reading “Combray – A Childhood Proust’s Stream of Consciousness”
Hey everyone! My name is Julia Wouters, and I am a fourth-year student studying psychology. I am super interested in forensic and criminal psychology, and I would also like to do a masters in clinical counselling. I have taken one of…
Hey everyone! My name is Julia Wouters, and I am a fourth-year student studying psychology. I am super interested in forensic and criminal psychology, and I would also like to do a masters in clinical counselling. I have taken one of…
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Questions from week one
I’m not sure how to write this. I’m not sure what the correct wording to use here is because how do you write a concluding blog post? To begin with, I enjoyed this course (really mundane start but hey! gotta begin somewhere!) especially because we learnt a lot about literature in the romantic era. I […]
Hey everyone! So last blog post! This class has been quite an interesting class for me. At first, I recall…
