Tag Archives: genre

Poetry Month: Day 2, Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Liz Henry

Happy Poetry Month! Today I have been thinking about Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva, a Venezuelan poet from the 20th century (1886-1962). Her poems are small and odd, but huge internally, like a pocket universe captured and studied from all sides; a … finish reading Poetry Month: Day 2, Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva

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Deep, then flippant, thoughts on SXSWi

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Liz Henry

I’m getting ready to fly out to Austin for SXSWi, where I’m going to talk at a session on Sunday afternoon, “Fictional Blogging”. Marrit Ingman at the Austin Chronicle interviewed me here: Where the Wild Things Blog. For once, I’m … finish reading Deep, then flippant, thoughts on SXSWi

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Paying attention as an art form

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Liz Henry

In thinking about the ways that value is created (including literary value, or imaginary ideas like money) I arrived at some thoughts about the ways people pay attention to each other on the Internet. If you want to pay attention … finish reading Paying attention as an art form

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Gender and genre in blogs

Posted on December 21, 2006 by Liz Henry

In her paper on Gender and genre variation in weblogs Susan Herring and her team hypothesized differences between male- and female-authored blogs. I haven’t read the paper closely enough to get the detail, but the gist of it is they … finish reading Gender and genre in blogs

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Women of the Left Bank

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Liz Henry

I’m still thinking about Paris Was a Woman and at the moment am listening to Ed Sanders reading “Hail to the Rebel Cafe”. I know a lot of Latin American women were in Paris or visited in the teens and … finish reading Women of the Left Bank

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Spoken word memoir

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Liz Henry

Just said this on mailing list but I want to stick it here too so I can remember it and think about it some more. In the context of people saying their students write this kind of thing that is … finish reading Spoken word memoir

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genre or movement?

Posted on February 6, 2006 by Liz Henry

I was challenged to explain what I mean by “genre” and how it’s different from a “literary movement”. So, is modernismo a genre? A movement? Or what? Some theorists talk about genre as form – as poetry, drama, prose; elegy, … finish reading genre or movement?

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Gender and genre

Posted on January 6, 2006 by Liz Henry

As I continue reading Latin American literary criticism from the 20s and 30s onward, I keep noticing that critics often decide that women poets missed the genre bus. A critic will launch into a discussion of modernismo, and then mention … finish reading Gender and genre

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