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You might like to try Alan Moore's graphic novel "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman" for something different. Skip the crappy movie, though.

I wasn't going to suggest this, but since you're counting MacBeth I mine as well.

Paradise Lost.

My favorite book (I think.)

You just beat me to this!

This seems like an obvious choice, to me. And, also, going with the Batman theme, I suppose Harvey Dent would count to a certain extent. It depends which Batman you...

Thanks for such an interesting post!



I've "read" the Sundiata and I've got say, it's quite fascinating. The whole idea of the griot, who's like a walking library of history, literature, and...

As would I.

We also should consider that only literate people would probably ever even decide to have this discussion. It's like Buddhism. You have to be a pretty intelligent person to consider...

Would you mind clarifying? I'm not sure what you are referring to. Do you mean that oral language has the same set of advantages and disadvantages as written (or, at least the same ones I've put...

One of the things we've been discussing in one of my classes is this: what are the advantages and disadvantages to writing? How does writing change us? How are oral cultures different from literary...

I don't have anything to add. But Bob Dylan does:

Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide...

Damn it, armenian. Beat me to it!

Not by any means. She tried to create an entire system of philosophy based on reasoning, and got a lot further with it than most people would have had the patience for. The ARI is an abomination,...

Yes, I know that lit majors are generally left leaning and we don't like Rand, regardless of whether we've read her or not. I realize that, without treading carefully, this thread will turn...

Part of what makes great literature great- and literature- is its timelessness and its ability to cater to a wide spectrum of human experience. There are, without a doubt, books that cater more...

Faust- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Have them write, read, and edits each other's papers every single week if you can. I'd have them write two page papers every week- on whatever. Writing, reading, and revising is the only way they are...

I doubt it. Considering, according to Milton, Adam and Eve both had potential to learn, explore, and eventually become angels. Adam spends almost 2 books or more in a highly academic discussion with...

I think, if anything, religion hinders social progress more than it inspires it. There is a quote, written somewhere (I forget by whom), that says "There are good people in this world and bad people....

I don't think there was ever a place like this...

How about things like Def Jam poetry and it rap and hip hop lyrics? And please, no sweeping generalizations about how so in so is all about murdering and gang violence.

The obvious big referencer of that is Harry Potter. However, I found that the Philosopher's Stone was also a big elements in Victor Hugo's "Hunchback of Notre Dame". Nicholas Flamel's stone proves to...

I think this section from John Milton (who wrote his life's work on Satan) is especially fitting to contribute to this discussion. Paradise Lost, Book III:



Though men do not have free-will- or...

Huh. Mine says "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed into a horrible vermin".

I just read this for one of my classes! Fantastic book, but I wonder about my translation. The writing just seemed... passive and bland. Still, I am fascinated by the disconnection the underground...

I agree that it is wrong for people to pray all day and do no work that benefits others. However, wouldn't you say everything has its time and its place? To participate in this world on not only the...

I think you could have a teen book of the month thread, just like there's already books of the month for world lit. But, damn, this thread makes me feel old!

In a previous topic you wrote:



Now, you say you have a son in middle school. I'm sorry, but somethings not adding up here.