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Jan 5, 2012 18:30:44 GMT -5
Post by sammybluejay on Jan 5, 2012 18:30:44 GMT -5
This semester I'm taking British Novel in the 20th Century What are you reading for that one? The only actual novel on my Brit Lit 1920-1940 class is Brave New World, although that makes me pretty happy, because it's an amazing book. But I'm curious to see what you're covering.  |
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Jan 5, 2012 19:23:29 GMT -5
Post by Tanith on Jan 5, 2012 19:23:29 GMT -5
This semester I'm taking British Novel in the 20th Century What are you reading for that one? The only actual novel on my Brit Lit 1920-1940 class is Brave New World, although that makes me pretty happy, because it's an amazing book. But I'm curious to see what you're covering. Our reading list: Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf Voyage in the Dark - Jean Rhys The Collector - John Fowles Regeneration - Pat Barker Asylum - Patrick McGrath Woolf is one of my favorite authors ever and I adore Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea. The others will be new to me. I may be the only English major who has never read Brave New World  I should fix that... |
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Jan 5, 2012 19:48:18 GMT -5
Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jan 5, 2012 19:48:18 GMT -5
I may be the only English major who has never read Brave New World I should fix that... I've never read it either, and I don't particularly plan to. |
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Jan 5, 2012 19:52:41 GMT -5
Post by sammybluejay on Jan 5, 2012 19:52:41 GMT -5
I didn't really have any interest in it but when I heard it was part of reading for this class, I went out and got it a few months ago. And I have no regrets, it was fantastic. I flew right through it. Mind, I do have a love affair with dystopian lit, which may be why I enjoyed it so much.
And D.H. Lawrence! I've only ever read one of his novels (Lady Chatterly's Lover) but I thoroughly enjoyed his style.
I'm actually reading Mrs. Dalloway for both the Brit Lit class and my Modernism to Postmodernism class this semester. I've never read it before, but I've read some of Woolf's essays. My roommate hated Mrs. Dalloway so I'm a little concerned that I'll hate it too...
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Jan 5, 2012 20:24:48 GMT -5
Post by mykelblank on Jan 5, 2012 20:24:48 GMT -5
I'm taking Creative Writing, Mythology, and what's called a Learning Community (LC) at my school. A LC is a double block class that brings two disciplines together to discuss a topic. My LC combines Topics in Literature with Topics in History and is called A Force More Powerful: How Everyday People Change the World. Booklist: Creative Writing The Artful Edit--Bell Great Gatsby--Fitzgerald A Force More Powerful Essential Ghandi--Fischer In the Time of Butterflies--Alvarez Recovering the Sacred--Laduke South Africa: Rise and Fall of Apartheid--Clark Statements--Fugard This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street--Van Gelder Mythology Mythology--Hamilton Power of Myth--Campbell World Mythology--Rosenberg Typing those out just gave me a really sweet headache. I'm going to be writing my ass off this semester. |
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Post by Kori on Jan 6, 2012 3:39:25 GMT -5
I've got two workshop classes - the final Fiction Workshop for my capstone and a Poetry Workshop, as well as an editing and publishing class. Considering that I'm an editor of the school's Literary Magazine, I really should have taken that years ago...
No lit classes, unfortunately.
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Jan 6, 2012 15:23:52 GMT -5
Post by Tanith on Jan 6, 2012 15:23:52 GMT -5
I'm actually reading Mrs. Dalloway for both the Brit Lit class and my Modernism to Postmodernism class this semester. I've never read it before, but I've read some of Woolf's essays. My roommate hated Mrs. Dalloway so I'm a little concerned that I'll hate it too... I love Mrs. Dalloway but I understand why not everyone does. Nothing 'happens' per se; it's highly introspective, written in a lot of stream-of-consciousness, and has a very morbid undertone throughout. For me, though, it was beautiful and affecting. |
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Jan 6, 2012 18:55:38 GMT -5
Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jan 6, 2012 18:55:38 GMT -5
This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street--Van Gelder Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. There's a textbook now?! ISBN, please. |
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Jan 6, 2012 19:58:39 GMT -5
Post by mykelblank on Jan 6, 2012 19:58:39 GMT -5
This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street--Van Gelder Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. There's a textbook now?! ISBN, please. Here you go: 9781609945879 |
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Jan 6, 2012 20:45:22 GMT -5
Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jan 6, 2012 20:45:22 GMT -5
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. There's a textbook now?! ISBN, please. Here you go: 9781609945879 You're my favourite. <3 |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jan 7, 2012 9:01:00 GMT -5
Creative Writing The Artful Edit--Bell Lemme know what you think of this one -- I'm looking for good writing texts, and this isn't on my list yet! |
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Jan 9, 2012 17:01:09 GMT -5
Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jan 9, 2012 17:01:09 GMT -5
What's everyone reading for next semester? My reading list looks like this:
-Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
-Le Morte d'Arthur
-History of the Kings of Britain
-Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-Great Expectations
-News from Nowhere (Has anyone even heard of this?)
-Culture and Anarchy
-The Condition of the Working Class in England
-Jane Eyre
-Norton Anthology: The Victorian Period
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Jan 9, 2012 17:31:32 GMT -5
Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jan 9, 2012 17:31:32 GMT -5
What's everyone reading for next semester? My reading list looks like this: -Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -Le Morte d'Arthur -History of the Kings of Britain -Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain Looks like someone's taking a class on Arthurian lit. |
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Jan 9, 2012 17:47:07 GMT -5
Post by sammybluejay on Jan 9, 2012 17:47:07 GMT -5
I just realized that I posted my classes above but not my reading list. Sooo:
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett (which I've already read numerous times for other courses)
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
If We Are Women - Joanna McClelland Glass
Dubliners - James Joyce
I Henry IV - Shakespeare
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Anthony and Cleopatra (the last three of these are in The Norton Shakespeare: Tragedies)
Then the anthologies are
Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Twentieth Century and Beyond, from 1900 to WWII
Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction - ed. Philip Stevick
Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales - ed. Knight and Ohlgren
And my one non-English class is a film studies course for film noir, and the text is Naremore's More than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts.
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Jan 9, 2012 19:04:01 GMT -5
Post by Tanith on Jan 9, 2012 19:04:01 GMT -5
I already listed the books for my British lit class, so the rest: The Bass Saxophone - Josef Skvorecky Closely Watched Trains - Bohumil Hrabal Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age - Bohumil Hrabal Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch - Ladislav Klima Three Novels; Toward the Radical Center - Karel Capek Contemplation - Franz Kafka Prague Tales - Jan Neruda The Snowman - Jo Nesbo Naive. Super - Erlend Loe Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson The Blue Fox - Sjon Popular Music from Vittula - Mikael Niemi Longman Anthology of British Literature (2A): The Romantics and their Contemporaries Non-fiction: Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development - Daniel Levy et al Models of Democracy - David Held Politics by Other Means - Benjamin Ginsberg and Martin Shefter Politics in Europe - M. Donald Hancock sammybluejay, a class on film noir sounds like it should be interesting |
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I should fix that... 
