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I am a native English speaker, and my goal is to be able to read Spanish literature with ease. I've started reading popular fiction in Spanish with the hope of one day reading more complicated works....

eric.bell makes a good point. Many authors we hold on pedestals today were writing commercial fiction. Dickens was mentioned earlier, and he was paid for each word he wrote. Not only was he writing...

Thanks for the response Comedian.

Ideally I would like to teach creative writing. From what I've found out it seems an MFA is the best way to do this because then I could eventually teach college...

Hi, I have a BA in English, and I am now interested in starting a teaching career. My dream job would be to teach creative writing and I am applying to MFA programs. Is this a good move, or would it...

I can't remember exactly but I recall something from Whitman's Song of Myself.

Moby Dick has A LOT of homosexual motifs that you are looking for I think.

Definitely check out some D H Lawrence...

I would say one simple and important rule to follow is to make sure you're not forcing anything. You should let the story flow naturally and the details will come to you.

Don't feel forced to do...

On some level, I feel like Americans (in general) are children. The US is a very young country and Americans still look toward Europe as a big brother to learn what it means to be cultured and...

My advice is to just start writing. You can easily worry too much about what to write and never get started. If you come across a block write whatever comes to mind and you will eventually get back...

A writer is someone who writes. Not someone who has ideas for a novel and hasn't started it (though there is a good chance they will become a writer.)

I took a creative writing class through my...

Ah, I see what you mean. I think foreshadowing is a good start. I think that a good way to organize your study would be to make a plotline of the story in terms of the theme. How is it introduced?...

Hi Ilusa, it sounds like you're looking more at the structure of the texts and how they were written. Central themes have more to do with a symbol or a metaphor that the author explores throughout...

I didn't get too far in Ulysses before I got intimidated. I definitely need to revisit it.

Tom Robbins is my favorite! I love all of his books. Also Siddhartha by Herman Hesse is a great read :nod: and there is a new version with a foreward to Tom Robbins. It all comes full circle.

I've been reading and posting for a while, so I thought it was time to introduce myself! I really like the variety of this forum.

Anyway, my name is Will and I'm from Washington DC.

Here are...

I had a "special topics" course on Irish cinema at Trinity :) Almost all of the films we watched were based on books, ex: Angela's Ashes.

Many popular movies are based on books. I think people...

Beautifully put :) I feel the same way. Writing is a response. A response to literature, a response to the world around us. It let's us get the ideas out of our heads, whether we share them with...

Definitely Bat Man!

Well said. There are as many kind of interests as there are people. Some people would rather play sports than read, some would rather watch tv, some would rather paint a picture, and then there's us...

I too have been enjoying children's literature lately. I just finished reading The Chronicles of Narnia series. There was an interesting article at the end of the collection, "On Three Ways of...

I just thought of a really good example. "Being a Man (In the Lousy Modern World)" by Robert Twigger.

LOL The Bible is a good answer. I would say Jack London though.

I just started reading this book. I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez's writing, but this book is confusing! :p Does anyone know where I can find help in understanding it? Maybe a time-line or family tree...

This thread reminds me of Farenheit 451. What would it if books were not allowed?
Or more likely, if books became obsolete? There will always be other forms of expression, but books are my way of...

I think it really depends on the school and the program. From my experience I found you could pretty much get out what you put in. Hopefully if registration goes well you will get into (mostly)...