Back to School for GrownUps

So ….regular readers of this blog will know that I am currently completing a Master’s degree in English, Public Texts .

But what does that actually mean? 

According to the program website : 

In the Public Texts M.A. program at Trent University, we explore what it means to “go public” – to “publish” – and how that act resonates in the political, economic, and aesthetic spheres. Our students will develop new ways of looking at the production of texts, their circulation, and the relationship between texts and their publics, exploring issues which are emerging as central to literary research in the twenty-first century.

Well, yeah…we did that, I guess… but honestly,  I feel as though we’ve barely scratched the surface in many ways….and I’m frustrated - and a tad embarassed - to say that I am not sure that I could clearly articulate a definition of the phrase “public texts” at this point.

Or maybe that isn’t it…. I think that I know what I think public texts are.. just not so sure that my definition is not the same as the prof’s. And since I need to write an essay about emerging adults and public texts for this particular prof, I really DO wish I had a clearer sense of his definition.

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