Status Updates From Ugly Feelings

like she’s making points but the style difference between ngai and perloff is night and day… she just makes up words

it’s increasingly embarrassing that i am not even reading these for class. i’m just trying to like… better my practice? become a true poet-scholar? either way this one is DENSE but i really enjoyed her book on marginal aesthetics (zany, cute, etc).

Lots of note-taking for this AAAAAAAAA.

Still at the Intro :(((

Siento que no está hablando de nada de lo que dice que va a hablar al principio de cada capítulo ????

Finally resuming. Been talking about tone with the ninth graders. Thinking winter break would be a good time to assign them the chapter in this book on tone in Melville’s The Confidence Man and make them all little Marxist affect theorists