Wow,It has been a while since i put the thread here...and didn't expect it would get so many responses...I really got inspired .Thank you all!
by the way, azmuse,what do you mean about Tess? :)
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Wow,It has been a while since i put the thread here...and didn't expect it would get so many responses...I really got inspired .Thank you all!
by the way, azmuse,what do you mean about Tess? :)
Well i am thinking of combining the downfall of these male characters from "Far from madding crowd" to" Jude" with the change of the location.I will focus on Far,Return, Major and Jude.don't know if...
the love triangles and the smut>>
Good idea too!
it's typical of Hardy's novels...but i was wondering, what can i draw from this ?
what more does the love triangles stand for besides the story?...
Thank you for your ideas! David J and sloegin :)
I was thinking of the influence of the Nature and the Social circumstance on the characters...
or the Downfall of these male characters from Oak to...
Thank you for your information,piquant :)
I used to do my paper ljust like you said.I think that's the only right way of doing Literary studies.
I have read some of Hardy's novels.The reason why i...
:-) IWilKikU....But the school library won't open until next Monday ..hehe
and sloegin, why do you think it's a good idea to compare
Tess of the D'Ubervilles with Decameron? The latter is...
:-) It's very kind of you
anyway, i will try to find some useful material in my school lib...
Oh Thank you IWilKikU.
Sorry i didn't clarify my purpose of writing this paper.I have My minor in Literature.(Well, it's still not like your English Department )(and my major is chemistry). I am a...
:-) just one question then :what book do you think i must read?
Thank you all!
Do you think Thomas Hardy is over-researched?
.....(as i say l don't major in English, my questions will be a little unprofessional :o))
i am going to write my bachelor's thesis on his novels.But i...
Yeah....how can i forget Joyce:o)
Hey,Jay,i guess you can get much more from his books than me...as you can read it in your own language!
:o)
I guess our difference of appreciating Kundera originates from the idea we try to draw from his books.I find he is far more popular in China than in the western world.His books were intorduced to...
Oh Milan Kundera was once so popular in China....
He is originally Czech but now lives in France...
i have read a lot of his books :" the unbearable lightness of being","Joke","Farewell...
i totally agree with this.
I learn it from my own experience.
I kinda had some issues come along like those in "Dead poets Society". i finally realised :
to enjoy literature is a way we can enjoy...
who is the best at describing people and their minds?
A friend of mine asked me the question today.i feel a little stunned as i can't put my mind together on it.I first think of Dostoevsky and...
Oh,yes!! Thanks!
I like the poem in "Dead Poets Society"..it's by Lord Alfred Tennyson..but what's the title?
Come,my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world
............
tostrive,to seek,to find
and...
How about to read the novel first and then the introduction,Shea?
I also have the problem ,if i read the introduction first i will be preoccupied,especially the political and sociological analysis ...
eh,i guess you guys must have been very impressed about the SARS in China not long ago.I can exactly appreciate the meaning the silence when i recall my reading experience in that terrifying period....
Haha,:-)Shea,here i listen to the poems as background music every time i surf on net :o)I can't quite differentiate the words he read either but now i find it as if i could recite some of them,like...
Yeah,i find the reader is a Prof of Department of English,East Kentucky University.I like his way of reading the poetry.Thanks a lot for his work!
i really do love to hear poetry being read with...
I am very fascinated by T.S.Eliot's poetry,especially "the Waste Land".But after reading some comments ,i wonder whether i really appreciate the poem myself or just was led by the scholar's ideas......
Lucky you den!
Hah here i am in a circumstance where listening to English is kinda Practice..:-).And such stuff is very rare here..So i listen to them times and times again..
tell me your comment...
Hi,guys!!
How about listen to the poetry...I just came across a website which provides audio poetry in mp3..you can find William Blake,W.B.Yeats,John Keats.T.S.Eliot there...
see:...