Yesterday I finished listening to The Mill on the Floss. If I’m being honest, the final few chapters flew by in a blur. I do feel as if I need to listen to a few recorded tutorials about Eliot if I were to draw on her text for my EMA.
After a mild study hiatus due to my day job, and other life responsibilities, I did a bit of reading this morning. I feel that my understanding of modernism is becoming slightly firmer. Only slightly, mind.
Tomorrow morning there is an arts and humanities school event about academic writing. Although a lot of TMA marking has now landed, I am tempted, since I’m sure it will be helpful. I took a moment to click through to view the list of recorded events, and there were loads of them. I’m guessing it’s going to be recorded. Maybe listening to some of the other events would also be useful.
12 December 2025
I didn’t make it to the arts and humanities event. I do feel as if I’m on a bit of an inadvertent ‘go slow’ when it comes to my study at the moment. Lots of day job and personal life stuff going on. This said, I did get in a couple of hours of study this morning. I went through the audiovisual materials for Synge and Ford, whilst making notes.
When going through the Ford material, I did notice that there were five bits of additional reading to do. I accessed them all, viewed them as a single page, printed each of them as a PDF, and sent them all to my Kindle. There’s articles about the chronology of The Good Soldier, something about impressionism, and something about the history of the text.
As I was browsing over these materials, I briefly reflected on the EMA question. Although it is a long way away, I started to wonder whether Ford might be a potential choice; Ford and one of those new fangled digital texts we have yet to find out about. It’s a bit too early to be thinking about the EMA. There is quite a lot of learning to do before we all get there.
19 December 2025
I’m doing things, but I feel as if I’m not getting very far. I think that is okay, though. I feel as if I’m slightly ahead, although I do need to get reading more of the set texts.
Yesterday I listened to another Katherine Mansfield story whilst doing a bit of travelling. I’m really starting like her writing. A former colleague (who taught literature) spoke about the idea of ‘writerly versus readerly’ texts, which makes a bit of sense. Mansfield seems to leave gaps for us to do the figuring out.
Last night there was a tutorial for our tutor group. There were only five of us there. It was all about the pragmatics of the next TMA, which I think I now understand, the broad category of modernism, a bit about Ford, and a bit about Mansfield. I asked some pointed questions about how to approach the essay bit of the TMA, which was helpful. As I might have mentioned before, the idea of modernism is getting a bit clearer.
I think I know when I’ll have a bit of time over the winter break to do a bit of reading of Mansfield, and maybe have another read of Ford.
After this bit, we have Woolf, and some Eliot, and then it's onto the other texts that I’ve not touched.
A335 Journal – December 2025
4 December 2025
Yesterday I finished listening to The Mill on the Floss. If I’m being honest, the final few chapters flew by in a blur. I do feel as if I need to listen to a few recorded tutorials about Eliot if I were to draw on her text for my EMA.
After a mild study hiatus due to my day job, and other life responsibilities, I did a bit of reading this morning. I feel that my understanding of modernism is becoming slightly firmer. Only slightly, mind.
Tomorrow morning there is an arts and humanities school event about academic writing. Although a lot of TMA marking has now landed, I am tempted, since I’m sure it will be helpful. I took a moment to click through to view the list of recorded events, and there were loads of them. I’m guessing it’s going to be recorded. Maybe listening to some of the other events would also be useful.
12 December 2025
I didn’t make it to the arts and humanities event. I do feel as if I’m on a bit of an inadvertent ‘go slow’ when it comes to my study at the moment. Lots of day job and personal life stuff going on. This said, I did get in a couple of hours of study this morning. I went through the audiovisual materials for Synge and Ford, whilst making notes.
When going through the Ford material, I did notice that there were five bits of additional reading to do. I accessed them all, viewed them as a single page, printed each of them as a PDF, and sent them all to my Kindle. There’s articles about the chronology of The Good Soldier, something about impressionism, and something about the history of the text.
As I was browsing over these materials, I briefly reflected on the EMA question. Although it is a long way away, I started to wonder whether Ford might be a potential choice; Ford and one of those new fangled digital texts we have yet to find out about. It’s a bit too early to be thinking about the EMA. There is quite a lot of learning to do before we all get there.
19 December 2025
I’m doing things, but I feel as if I’m not getting very far. I think that is okay, though. I feel as if I’m slightly ahead, although I do need to get reading more of the set texts.
Yesterday I listened to another Katherine Mansfield story whilst doing a bit of travelling. I’m really starting like her writing. A former colleague (who taught literature) spoke about the idea of ‘writerly versus readerly’ texts, which makes a bit of sense. Mansfield seems to leave gaps for us to do the figuring out.
Last night there was a tutorial for our tutor group. There were only five of us there. It was all about the pragmatics of the next TMA, which I think I now understand, the broad category of modernism, a bit about Ford, and a bit about Mansfield. I asked some pointed questions about how to approach the essay bit of the TMA, which was helpful. As I might have mentioned before, the idea of modernism is getting a bit clearer.
I think I know when I’ll have a bit of time over the winter break to do a bit of reading of Mansfield, and maybe have another read of Ford.
After this bit, we have Woolf, and some Eliot, and then it's onto the other texts that I’ve not touched.