User:Mrathel

Current Projects

1. The Odes of Keats
2. The Works of Thomas Wolfe
3. Updating information on 20th Century Literary Critics

Why I am Here

I have recently taken to editing pages, attempting to make use out of my keen eye for grammar and a deficiency in spelling. I do my best to stay away from issues of POV, though it is the most common violation of wiki policy. I do find myself getting into small battles, but like to think that I spend more of my time checking wording and sources. Having always been a typewriter boy, I still have much to learn in terms of how the mechanics of page production work.

Areas of Study

My degree focuses on Southern United States Literature. However, this genre often receives lots of attention by men who edit articles far better than I, and with a defeated heart I have turned to history topics as my focus, as history professors and undergraduates tend to write poorly and push a particular POV. If I were a sociology student I would wonder about the correlation between history students and POV, but for the time being I will stick to making sure that the POV articles are labeled and correctly punctuated.

Sample Topics

• Authors
• 
  William Faulkner
• Ernest Hemingway
  Ernest Hemingway
• 
  W. H. Auden
• Thomas Pynchon
  Thomas Pynchon
• Henry James
  Henry James
• 
  James Joyce
• 
  Marcel Proust
• 
  John Keats
• 
  Willa Cather
• 
  Umberto Eco
• 
  T.S. Eliot
• 
  Maxine Hong Kingston

1. postmodernism
2. Russian Formalism
3. The works of Vladimir Nabokov
4. 20th Century American Poetry
5. semiotics and poetry of thse 20th Century
6. Literature on Screen: Dramatizations of Modernist Literature
7. The Chronicles of Narnia

favorite Critics

1. Hugh Kenner: I have to represent the University of Georgia
2. Harold Bloom: I hate to admit it, but sometimes the most well-known tend to be the most prolific.
3. Richard Ellman: Despite what Kenner might have said, I can't argue with a Natoional Book Award.
4. M.H. Abrams
5. Fredric Jameson
6. I.A. Richards
7. Marilyn French
8. Gregory Orr
9. Cleanth Brooks
10. Julie Rivkin
11. Michael Ryan
12. Peter F. Morgan
13. Terry Eagleton
14. Tim Hunt
15. Brian Boyd
16. Weldon Thorton
17. Clive Hart
18. Tim Morris
19. Eleanor Cook

In Politics:

1. Anti-racist math
2. John McCain
3. Chinese-US trade policies
4. Conservative Thought 1950-Present
5. Hillary Clinton
6. William F. Buckley, Jr.

In History

1. United States Civil War
2. Local Histories of Middle Georgia Towns
3. Writers in histry, the extended bibliographies

Personal Interests That Might Influence Article Selection

• Skeet, 5 stand clays
• fly fishing
• labrador retrievers
• reading
• writing horrible poetry, then beating it up
• stouts and porters