rayyychul
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Post by rayyychul on Aug 1, 2011 22:57:05 GMT -5
I'm sure most of those in university have registered for their classes (and from what I hear, an unfortunate few start classes in the next few weeks!).
What books do you need for this upcoming semester's English courses?
Have you read them before? Did you enjoy them? If not, do you think you will?
If you're still in high school, what do you anticipate reading next school year for your English courses?
Post what specific class the books are for, if you wish!
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rayyychul
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Post by rayyychul on Aug 1, 2011 23:00:38 GMT -5
I'm taking two English courses next semester: Early Modern Literature and 19th Century Literature.
For Early Modern, I'm required:
Longman Anthology of British Literature
Roaring Girl & Other City Comedies
For 19th Century:
Frankenstein
Norton Anthologoy of British Literature
I'm slightly disappointed, because I've done Frankenstein in at least four of my classes and no profs have shown me anything new... but hopefully this professor will be able to show me something new! I also don't really want to shell out for the anthologies, but alas, I must.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Aug 1, 2011 23:01:25 GMT -5
The Faerie Queene, Utopia, and various other bits from the class pack that I haven't gotten around to look at yet. These are for my English Renaissance course I'm taking in the fall.
Other than that, there aren't any courses I'm reading a novel for. :C
Also, I think it would interest many Armadillos to know, that one of our introductory literature courses is reading...
Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman.
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Post by tosney on Aug 1, 2011 23:19:28 GMT -5
*worships Neil Gaiman*
Alas, my class is not so lucky.
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Aug 1, 2011 23:44:37 GMT -5
For my Earlier English Lit class, I had to get three Norton anthologies. For my Earlier American Lit class, I also had to get a Norton anthology. For my Modern Brit Lit class, we're reading: - Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Waiting for Godot
- To the Lighthouse
- The Waste Land
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- A Passage to India
- Secret Agent
[/i]and John Keats. Phew. [/li][/ul] For my Intro to Poetry Criticism I had to buy yet another Norton anthology and The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, which I have just now discovered was optional and debating returning. The only novels I've read in full are Lady Chatterley's Lover, A Passage to India, and To the Lighthouse. I am a little excited to pick apart books and poems again. My essay skills are oxidizing with lack of use. |
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rayyychul
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Post by rayyychul on Aug 2, 2011 0:43:46 GMT -5
I really liked The Important of Being Earnest!
Anything written by Beckett, however, I can definitely live without.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Aug 3, 2011 15:49:05 GMT -5
I really liked The Important of Being Earnest! Anything written by Beckett, however, I can definitely live without. Ditto on both counts. Blegh, Happy Days, no thank you. All this talk of the coming semester is making me sad. I miss formal edumacation! |
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Post by rayyychul on Aug 3, 2011 16:08:33 GMT -5
I really liked The Important of Being Earnest! Anything written by Beckett, however, I can definitely live without. Ditto on both counts. Blegh, Happy Days, no thank you. All this talk of the coming semester is making me sad. I miss formal edumacation! I get that it's supposed to be absurdest, but oh god, I just cannot get into it. I even read the original French of End Game and Waiting for Godot, hoping it they would catch my interest more... but nope. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Aug 3, 2011 16:28:01 GMT -5
Ditto on both counts. Blegh, Happy Days, no thank you. All this talk of the coming semester is making me sad. I miss formal edumacation! I get that it's supposed to be absurdest, but oh god, I just cannot get into it. I even read the original French of End Game and Waiting for Godot, hoping it they would catch my interest more... but nope. The thing is, though, the French may be the original language, but it still wasn't the intended language. He only wrote them in French to translate them back to English so as to ensure absolute minimalist vocabulary. Because he wasn't actually all that fluent -- just passable. And that's why so many of his plays are SO DAMN REPETITIVE -- he only knew how to say so many things. |
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Aug 3, 2011 21:17:14 GMT -5
Oh...I'm afraid to read Beckett now. Clever that he did that with his works! The play looked harmless when I picked it up at Barnes and Noble the other day.
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Post by verbumsat on Aug 4, 2011 3:04:48 GMT -5
Ah, I see Beckett. I've got him on my list as well, but we're doing Molloy for my Literature and Madness module. It's quite a popular module so I'm really looking forward to it. We've got Plath's Bell Jar, Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted, Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. I'm also doing a class on the 20th Century Novel, and Science Fiction too.  |
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Post by inarikins on Aug 4, 2011 14:15:38 GMT -5
I have no english classes, but three history ones this semester. Not that I'm bothered, since I would like to minor in history, but it's kind of a lot.
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Aug 4, 2011 15:04:48 GMT -5
Ah, I see Beckett. I've got him on my list as well, but we're doing Molloy for my Literature and Madness module. It's quite a popular module so I'm really looking forward to it. We've got Plath's Bell Jar, Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted, Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. I'm also doing a class on the 20th Century Novel, and Science Fiction too. I LOVE FIGHT CLUB. Never seen the movie, though I hear it's equally as good. Very fitting for Literature and Madness. I read Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky and he works the madness angle there very well. I'm sure that the choice for your class will be a good one, too. |
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Post by verbumsat on Aug 4, 2011 22:40:14 GMT -5
Ah, I see Beckett. I've got him on my list as well, but we're doing Molloy for my Literature and Madness module. It's quite a popular module so I'm really looking forward to it. We've got Plath's Bell Jar, Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted, Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. I'm also doing a class on the 20th Century Novel, and Science Fiction too. I LOVE FIGHT CLUB. Never seen the movie, though I hear it's equally as good. Very fitting for Literature and Madness. I read Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky and he works the madness angle there very well. I'm sure that the choice for your class will be a good one, too. is way awesome! The movie is pretty good for an adaptation. It leaves nothing out of the text, which I feel is something praise-worthy of a movie adaptation. Haha. Also, I really liked how the director made use of the same "splicing a frame" in the movie too. Not much of a spoiler, but you should be able to notice instances when Tyler (Brad Pitt) is super-imposed on the screen. I haven't got round to reading Dostoyevsky yet, really looking forward to it! |
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Aug 4, 2011 22:55:17 GMT -5
I LOVE FIGHT CLUB. Never seen the movie, though I hear it's equally as good. Very fitting for Literature and Madness. I read Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky and he works the madness angle there very well. I'm sure that the choice for your class will be a good one, too. is way awesome! The movie is pretty good for an adaptation. It leaves nothing out of the text, which I feel is something praise-worthy of a movie adaptation. Haha. Also, I really liked how the director made use of the same "splicing a frame" in the movie too. Not much of a spoiler, but you should be able to notice instances when Tyler (Brad Pitt) is super-imposed on the screen. I haven't got round to reading Dostoyevsky yet, really looking forward to it! WOAH. Brad Pitt is in the film version of Fight Club? I must get to watching it now. |
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