This is a collective blog for the students of Potts’ Comparative Literature 3:  The Modern Crisis at UC Davis, and anyone else interested in a discussion of literature of the modern period (early 1800′s to the mid 1900′s).  The idea of this particular discussion is comparative–everyone in the class will be responsible for doing one long-ish blog entry [500-750 words] on one of the texts from class, arguing a connection that you see from one of the text’s thematics or an issue that one of the texts presents with another work of your choosing—one that we’re NOT explicitly working on in class.  This means that you can look at another literary work, a painting, music, a film, a comic, a tv show—in short, anything that presents any sort of artistic connection that you can relate to one of the class texts is fair game.  Be as creative as you like with the connection—just explain that connection for the readers of the blog.   The idea of the blog for the class is to have a collective place for the class to interact outside of the classroom environment, to make the texts your own, and to provide a lasting discussion about these texts both for our class and other students and readers online.  I invite you to not only post your entry, but to make the blog space your own.