Oh it's absolutely not totally representative. I mean, how could you even make a list that would satisfy every literary critic/theorist?
I still think it's fairly good guide to influential works,...
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Oh it's absolutely not totally representative. I mean, how could you even make a list that would satisfy every literary critic/theorist?
I still think it's fairly good guide to influential works,...
How did you like Perfume? It's been on my tbr list for ages and I haven't yet managed to get around to it.
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Well you've got a list of reading to last you years now!
I'd recommend watching some excellent lectures online to supplement your reading. A lot of universities offer this, but the...
I definitely recommend them. Emily is a little less verbose - fewer long-winded speeches lasting pages and pages and pages, as Anne is apt to do - but she's equally as spirited.
Good Canadian...
Jumping on the Margaret Atwood bandwagon - I adore that woman!
I'm a little late to the party, but I think there's a pretty good list here already. Definitely agree with much of Woolf's canon, as well as Austen's and the Bronte's.
Don't know whether it's...
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I tried to get through Clarissa at some point a few years ago, couldn't make it past 100 pages. I should have known better anyway, I struggled through Pamela some time before that and barely...
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This might be a little outside your topic, but if you're interested in the sexualization of children's fairy tales (specifically via Disney), you may want to check out Peggy Orenstein's Cinderella...
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If you're looking into Canadian authors, I'd also suggest some Margaret Atwood or Mordecai Richler.
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Alyson
Of course no author can predict future trends in literature. My point was only that many readers, not all readers, refuse to read classics because of a lack of immediacy.
That's all that I meant. I personally enjoy the classics, but how much of that is owing to my education, throughout which I had the classics drilled into my by professors, who knows? I have many...
Readable and enjoyable to who though? A lot of modern readers won't touch classics because of a lack of immediacy. Classics are endowed with classic status because of an endurance in their status,...
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Couldn't have said it better myself! Classic does not necessarily denote readability or general enjoyability to modern audiences even; it's just a mark of endurance.
I hear you there! The devolution of all coherence in the Quentin section was absolute misery the first time I read it, so confused.
That's an awesome number!
A rough guide is good; reading is supposed to be enjoyable, no point slogging through a list if it's not your cup o' tea. :)
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Alyson
I'm not too sure Collins would have expected them to be made into movies; I mean, for every major mainstream success in YA publishing, there are thousands and thousands of failures.
And the...
Excellent post, I can totally relate. I've always felt intimidated by Ulysses as well; having profs with tenure go on and on about difficult it is doesn't encourage little me to try it.
As to...
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Quentin's section of The Sound and the Fury, where grammar and any sort of sense are just thrown out the window. I always liked crazy Quentin though. :)
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Alyson
Welcome and happy reading!
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Alyson