A few days ago, I received the following challenge from a good friend: List 15 books you’ve read that will always stick with you — list the first 15 you can recall in 15 minutes. Don’t take too long to think about it. So, here is the list I created. They, largely, are not in [...]
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15 Works of Literature That Stay With You…
Posted in Austen, Journaling, Literature, Shakespeare, tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Capitalism and Freedom, Catcher in the Rye, Christine Jorgensen, Dorian Gray, English, English Renaissance, Fahrenheit 451, Gone With the Wind, Harry Potter, Jane Austen, Literature, Margaret Mitchell, Marya Hornbacher, Mrs. Dalloway, Oscar Wilde, Pride and Prejudice, Ray Bradbury, Reading, Reading choices, Salinger, Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Virginia Woolf, Wasted, Wizard of Oz, Woman in White on 5 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Value in a Re-read?
Posted in Austen, Journaling, Literature, Shakespeare, tagged Baum, Catcher in the Rye, English, Hamlet, Idina Menzel, Jane Austen, Mrs. Dalloway, Shakespeare, The Wizard of Oz, Twelfth Night, Virginia Woolf, Wicked, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West on 31 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is there any value in looking at what a person has taken the time not only to read once, but also felt invested in enough to read again? Granted, I’ve been told, people in English don’t read, we reread. From what I’ve seen of classes absolutely ripping good pieces of literature to shreds allowing for [...]
English Literature?
Posted in Austen, Journaling, Literature, Shakespeare, tagged Criticism, English, Literature, Queen Elizabeth I, Reading, Sexuality, Shakespeare, Why on 24 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
About a week ago, a victim of his students’ impromptu collective collusion to derail him from his lesson plan, my Renaissance professor, Will, found himself discussing with our class why, exactly, he wanted to study literature. While I cannot reconstruct the whole of the conversation now, the gist of it was, going in for a [...]
