"A while ago, I started getting emails from faculty in the composition program telling me they didn't know what to do because they teach writing, but are they supposed to turn over the essays students have written," said Freyd, the Oregon professor.
The impulse to pun, perfectly fitting in that context, strikes Dalby perplexingly often; it's unfortunate that these gags, perhaps left over from the essays she wrote in Japanese on the same subjects, weren't left untranslated.
This context over-determines the essay throughout, with its almost Manichean oppositions between ritual and politics, cult value and exhibition value.
He has never lost an engaging delight in manuscripts and the almost breathless excitement of discovery, and his ability to communicate this to students and to the public at large is evoked over and over again in the essays here.
She declares herself unable to be a critic of The Hunger Games, so emotional does her fandom render her, but writes an all-over-the-place critical essay on it anyway.
After I listened to the interview, I began looking over the essays from a writing assignment I had given a different group of students, years ago.
