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[poesizing]

intro to lit theory

Authorship: Barthes, Death of the Author; Foucault, What is an Author?

Formalism: Eichenbaum, The Theory of the “Formal Method”;  Brooks, from The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry

Structuralism: Saussure, Course in General Linguistics ; Barthes, from Mythologies

Psychoanalysis: Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; Lacan, The Mirror Stage & The Significance of the Phallus

Ideology: Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses; Foucault, Truth and Power

Feminism & Queer: Sedgwick, from Between Men; Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa; Wittig, One Is Not Born a Woman; Butler, Gender Trouble

Deconstruction: Derrida, from Of Grammatology;

Postcolonial: Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth; Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?

Cultural Materialism: Adorno & Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception; Williams, Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory  

these are about 2/3 of the readings for my intro to lit theory course, if you’ve ever wondered what one studies on such courses, the links lead to free pdfs  

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summer studying challenge: 10th of August 2020

What is your favourite summertime snack? - I love bruschetta! I never manage to make them as well as they do it in Italy, but I still try haha! Featuring some books from the same colour palette that I’ve had to read for class over the years. 

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I feel that in the studyblr community nobody actively talks about the study environment some of us have, so shoutout to those students that:

• live with their parents (not everyone goes to college/uni where they have dorms, and even then, not everyone can afford it)

• have to deal with parents/family members constantly arguing in the background

• work / have to worry heavily about just getting by (paying rent, groceries, medication)

• need loud music to study and drown outside noises

• can not "study prettily" at coffee shops

• take care of other family members, and thus have to be ready to drop whaterever they are doing to assist them at any time

• can not concentrate or get "in the zone" no matter what they do

• do not have a personal computer/tablet

• do not have a room of their own

• are neurodivergent and the advice of most study masterpost/tips is not applicable.

You are valid, you are seen, you are not alone. If nobody has told you already: if you are trying the best you can then the best you can is good enough.

sincerely, a student who needed to hear this.

[la-linguistique]

currently starting a french vocab list for the book im reading! these words are taken from Dans ma chambre by Guillaume Dustan. esp if youre interested in learning abt slang, gay culture, the AIDS crisis in paris, and vulgar words in french (lol) i highly recommend!!!!!! words that are considered more familiar usage (i.e. do not put them in ur french paper for school) are marked with (fam.) & i’ve provided a few examples of the words whose definitions might be harder to understand without context. 

ch. 1 glauque (adj.) - officially means “murky” or “blue-green,” but in slang means “seedy” or “shady” en prime (loc. adv.) - as a bonus s’emmerder (v.) - to be bored shitless (fam.) à la con (loc. adj.) - fucking stupid / “son truc à la con” - his stupid fucking thing se barrer (v.) - to scram (fam.) / “barre-toi !” - scram! gueuler (v.) - to shout (fam.) faire chier [qqn] (v.) - to piss off [someone] (fam.) / “tu me fais chier !” - you’re pissing me off!

ch. 2 se bourrer la gueule (v.) - to get wasted/shitfaced/hammered/very drunk (fam.) parano (adj.) - paranoid (fam.) / this is an abbreviation of “paranoïaque” ringard (adj.) - unfashionable, uncool accoudé (adj.) - leaning on one’s elbows monté (adj.) - hung (fam.) (as in penis size) se raidir (v.) - to stiffen up, to tense up se foutre de la gueule [de qqn] (v.) - to mess, to fuck around [with someone] (fam.) / “tu te fous de ma gueule ?” - are you fucking with me? are you messing with me?

let me know if you’d like to see more chapter vocab lists!

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I’m gonna make myself feel old, but reblog with your high school graduating class

Class of 2007.

[study-to-rule-the-world]

Mandarin Chinese vocabulary

[rivkahstudies]

advanced adjectives in brazilian portuguese !

…aka “the eternal struggle of learning a language and using the same 5 words to describe everything.” If you’re like me and always default to “it’s pretty,” “it’s hard,” etc, this post is for you!

* All adjectives ending in -o change to -a, -os, -as to match gender. Adjectives ending in -e are neutral and only pluralize to -es. Adjectives ending in -l are neutral and pluralize to -is. Please feel free to contact me if you’d like a post explaining Portuguese gender/number!

sinônimos para “bonito”

belo | beautiful

formoso | beautiful, superb

lindo | beautiful, gorgeous

maravilhoso | stunning

sinônimos para “difícil”

árduo | arduous, hard work

complicado | complicated

desafiante | challenging

duro | hard

sinônimos para “fácil”

evidente | evident, clear

natural | natural, relaxed

óbvio | obvious, clear

possível | possible

sinônimos para “feliz”

alegre | joyful

contente | cheerful

despreocupado | carefree, unworried

sinônimos para “inteligente”

esperto | indicating you’re an “expert” or quick-witted

vivo | quick-witted (this one needs a lot of context, so be careful with this one!)

sinônimos para “triste”

arrependido | regretful

deprimido | dejected, depressed

sombrio | somber, gloomy

lamentável | deplorable, pitiful

lúgubre | dismal

sinônimos para “zangado” 

com raiva | mad, wrathful

frustrado | frustrated

furioso | furious

irado | irate

irritado | irritated

outros adjetivos fortes

amargo | bitter (to the taste)

bobo | silly (person)

cabeçudo | thick-headed, stubborn

cortante |  bitter (as in wind, something “cutting” or sharp)

confiante | confident

confortável | comfortable

controverso | controversial

convicto | with conviction, certain

de má vontade | begrudgingly, unwillingly

doente | ill, sick, hurting

enjoado | sick, bored, in a bad mood

obstinado | obstinate

seguro | positive, certain, safe, secure, reliable

suspeito | causing suspicion

suspeitoso |  suspicious of, suspecting

teimoso | stubborn, obstinate

tranquilo | peaceful, calm, quiet, sure or certain

If I’ve missed any adjectives that you’re curious about, PLEASE feel free to leave requests in my ask box!!  💚 I’m not a native speaker, so natives please interact if you see any errors!! DMs are preferred so I can fix it quickly but public replies are good too.

[myhoneststudyblr]

i recently got asked how i get such bright lighting for my posts and i thought it would be a good opportunity to tell you all how i edit my pictures! i’ve recently changed how i edit my pictures and it works so well so why not share! it was inspired by how one of my favourite studygram accounts (tasneemstudying) edits her pictures! check out her account and she has a highlight on her profile where it shows how she edits her pictures!

if you have anymore questions, feel free to send me an ask! and make sure to check out my masterpost with all my other advice!

General

i use the app snapseed

in the past i’ve used VSCO but i’e found that you can do a lot more with snapseed and the pictures always turn out better

i wouldn’t necessarily recommend using filters or presets for editing because in my experience every photo needs to be edited differently

for example, i always edit each photo individually 

try to get as much natural lighting as possible 

i know it can be difficult in winter so i would recommend that when you have decent lighting, take as many pictures as possible when it is good

take multiple pictures of the same notes/set up but from different angles so you have options when editing

1. Curve Function

open the snapseed app

insert the picture that you want to edit

crop/rotate etc. if needed

use the curve function to change the lighting and make it brighter (this is particularly useful in winter when lighting isn’t as good)

you just need to play around with it until you are happy with it

2. Decrease Saturation

next go to the tune image tool

scroll to saturation

reduce the saturation completely to -100

it should be black and white now

3. Return Saturation to Certain Areas

this is perhaps the confusing bit but it’s very important:

return to the main screen

in the top right hand corner, click the button with the layered squares and the arrow

then click view edits

this will take you to the point shown in the lefthand picture

tap on the ‘tune image’

click on the paintbrush option

then click the invert button and the mask button

this should get you to the point shown in the righthand picture

this means that the paper and handwriting in black will be very defined and not have their colour distorted by any editing

but at the same time you can erase the low saturation to make colourful parts of the notes stand out

make sure the brush setting is at zero

start going over the areas with colour

the red will go away and the colour will no longer be black and white

make sure to zoom in close so you can get really close the the edges of the coloured areas

do this for all areas of colour

if you make a mistake, you can simply increase the brush setting to 100, paint over the area with the mistake and this will make it unsaturated again

4. Increase Brightness

then return to the tools menu and click on the ‘selective’ tool

select a spot that you want to brighten and tap to add the spot

swipe left and right to change the brightness

you are probably going to want to increase the brightness, particularly of the background

add more selective points wherever needed and repeat with the brightness

if you want to change the extent of the selective effect do a pinching movement

5. Add the Watermark

return to the tools page

click on the text tool

type in your watermark or name

choose the font and colour

place on your photo

6. Save!

save your picture!

and you are done

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Here are some more tips from my answer to an ask about how to take studyblr pictures

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[cosechadehuellas]

Así moriríamos

para no estar separados

tu casa ha de seguir

siendo mi casa.

Tengo que entrar y salir de allí

tengo que quedarme allí,

cuidarla,

porque, si no, nadie ve

lo que encuentran tus mustios ojos

por la tarde, solo a mí

yo lo sé, por ello,

la casa, mi casa

ha de ser, para siempre, esté

donde esté, debo

preparar la tarde,

y los pensamientos, ocu-

parme de su reposo.

• Ingeborg Bachmann, "No se de ningún mundo mejor"

Traducción y notas de Jan Pohl.

Poesía Hiperión

[pompadourpink]

Spotted on Reddit

[french-romarin]

I’d say most of the French people I’ve met are very impressed and happy to hear me try to speak their language. Of course this is a general statement but I find the average person I met in France was appreciative I made the effort.

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If you're an active langblr please reblog this

[mymodernmet]

Modern Paris Seen Through Retro Porthole Windows of ‘Tours Aillaud’ High-Rises

[pompadourpink]

Common native mistakes

Comme même instead of Quand même

Using the infinitive instead of a past participle when building the perfect - J’ai manger or imperfect tense - Je mangé instead of J’ai mangé

Messing up verbs - Je buvrais instead of Je boirais*

Possessive Sa instead of demonstrative Ça

Treating Ces, Ses, C’est like synonyms

Writing Acceuil instead of Accueil

Mixing up the gender of Testicule, Pétale, Éloge…

Adding -s to the singular first person to verbs that end with a vowel in the imperative tense - Écoutes!

Adding -s to the singular first person in the present tense - J’arrives

Common mistakes from foreigners

*There’s a reason for that. Certain verbs, like Être, Avoir, Faire, Aller, Vouloir…, have had two bases since the Middle Age. People then expect other verbs to be irregular when they’re not and destroy them (like Boire here).

[quietvoiced]

[sebastiencastille]

This is basically the whole French literature

[givemearmstopraywith]

online library so far:

margaret atwood

the brontës (the complete works is a MASSIVE file fyi)

anne carson

hélène cixous

bell hooks

clarice lispector

audre lorde

virginia woolf

compilations

feminist theory

academic writing (both books and articles)

everything here is in pdf format so you should be able to download and read it on any device. it’s slow going because i have a lot of epubs that i have to convert before uploading and the folders i’ve listed here are neither complete nor comprehensive, but it’s a start! 

[athenastudying-deactivated20220]

i really love learning not-quite-synonyms. i just learnt a list of six korean words that all mean “to wear”, but they’re used with different items of clothing or accessories. and i understand why these items are grouped that way and where the nuance in difference is between those verbs and yet even if i really try to find some obscure german verbs that correspond to those, i can’t. it’s something that i find really beautiful about language learning in general, you discover hidden nuances and new ways to look at things that you may have never considered before and it’s just really cool 

[kutyozh]

langblr playlists

Hello :)

Listening to music in my target language(s) always helped me a lot with pronunciation, vocabulary and use of language, so i’ve decided to share my spotify playlists that each focus on one language!

Some of them are still under construction and don’t have a lot of songs, but they will grow, I promise!

Links:

German  Spanish  Portuguese  Romanian  Russian  Serbian  Slovene  Lithuanian  Turkish  French  Polish  Hungarian  Ukrainian  Norwegian  Estonian  Arabic  Bulgarian  Korean  Chinese  Finnish  Thai  Japanese

Big playlist with non-English songs only: click here

If the playlist links do not work, this link will lead you to my page!

Note: These playlists are sorted by language, not by country! You might notice different accents!