Statement of Purpose

 I would like to improve my ability to think about the meaning of texts. Earlier today I completed the last video in Paul Fry's lecture series "Introduction to Theory of Literature." I plan to continue my education by reading "The Critical Tradition" by David H. Richter—regrettably I have only the second edition of that book rather than the third edition used in Fry's lectures, but it will have to do. 

 But obviously this stuff can't be learned simply in the abstract. So this is a little space for me to experiment with the critical theory I'm reading about, and the texts I happen to be reading. It will be inept, and silly, and I probably won't show it to anyone. I will endeavor for that preceding sentence to be the only time I declaim what I write here.