january 24

JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "Eat the Rich" by Aerosmith; "Junk Food Junkie" by Larry Groce; "Eat It" Weird Al Yankovic]

Are "secret ingredients" ever a good thing, or just a cynical ploy that entices us to eat cheaply manufactured nastiness?

1. Journal
2. The week in review
3. Anatomy of an argument
4. Misery, hope, and ways of writing about both
5. Genre at the beginning of the 20th century: naturalism, realism, and modernism

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What is a genre?  What is the difference between naturalism, realism, and modernism?  (title: 20th CENTURY WRITING STYLES)