Literature freak?????

[dogar sahab]

I am an engineering student but I am very much intersted in english literature!!I have myself studied Shakespeare,Geoffrey Chaucer,George Eliot et cetra..
Here are all litearture people...So u suggest me the masterpieces of english literature???
I also want to state that I wanted to go for litearture side but yielded to the parents' desire of becoming an engineer!!!
So u guys hep me out!!I want to keep my PASSION LIVE.....

[LitNetIsGreat]

Ah, yielded for the 'sensible' option have you, but you can always study literature later you know, it doesn't have to be either/or? Passion for the subject I would place above most things.

As for suggested reading, well, it really is a wide open world out there. You could check out a few university websites and go with a module area of suggested reading as if you were studying the course. Hunt around and go with what takes your fancy.

[papayahed]

Soild. another engineer running around the place. I hope you've chosen wisely and are studying chemical engineering??:D

[Babyguile]

Ah, yielded for the 'sensible' option have you, but you can always study literature later you know, it doesn't have to be either/or? Passion for the subject I would place above most things.

As for suggested reading, well, it really is a wide open world out there. You could check out a few university websites and go with a module area of suggested reading as if you were studying the course. Hunt around and go with what takes your fancy.


Yes that's a really good idea. You can chose something that you particualrly like.

I feel the same way actually by studying Environmental Science. It was either that or a literature-related course but I figured that literature lends itself more as a hobby than environmental science. Looking for some sort of book club/literature society to keep my interet going too.

[LitNetIsGreat]

I feel the same way actually by studying Environmental Science. It was either that or a literature-related course but I figured that literature lends itself more as a hobby than environmental science. Looking for some sort of book club/literature society to keep my interet going too.

Ah, but for me the love of literature and learning comes before the mere financial rewards from potential employment. Any job that comes from my degree (part-time six year course) would be a by-product of the study and not the object of it.

I am not criticising environmental science at all or anything else for that matter, I actually did geology at A-level and really enjoyed it, but for me the bottom line is that you have to go with your passions in life and be damned with everything else. Life is all too short.

If I end up highly educated in the field of literature (I intend to study a MA too) and I only end up talking philosophically to some landlord's dog somewhere then so be it, at least I will be satisfied and regret less.

If you are looking for a book club type of thing to keep up your interest you could do far worse than checking out if your local university runs classes/modules for adult education, it may or may not, but if it does jump on board.

[dogar sahab]

Infat I am doing electrical engineering!!!!
I am more into classics..I dont like modern writers..I love Shakespeare,Chaucer,Victor Hugo!!!
When I told my teacher that I read such writers,she replied:
"You are a pure literary person!!!"

[Josef K]

Some english authors I'd recommend checking out off the top of my head. Dickens, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Heller, Flannery O' Connor, Huxley, John Kennedy Toole, Hemingway, and Hunter S. Thompson.

No reason to limit yourself to just english literature though!

[dogar sahab]

^you are right...my father is URDU LITERATURE FREAK!!!so am I but this time not Urdu rather English!!!

[Kafka's Crow]

Infat I am doing electrical engineering!!!!
I am more into classics..I dont like modern writers..I love Shakespeare,Chaucer,Victor Hugo!!!
When I told my teacher that I read such writers,she replied:
"You are a pure literary person!!!"

Move on to Russian Literature, you will not regret it. Start with Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/myl/hero.htm) and move your way up to Tolstoy's War and Peace.

As far as 'English' Literature is concerned, England's crowning achievement shows itself in drama. From the great Elizabethans to the contemporary writers, the history of English Literature boasts some of the greatest names in this field. Poetry is not bad either. I can not read English novel, simply can not. I like Jane Austen and George Eliot but that is about it.

Have you heard a good reading of Chaucer in medieval English. That is a fascinating experience. Try this link and click on the 'Play Sample' button under the book title (this 'sample' goes on for quite some time, you need Flash Player installed for the link to work though): http://www.audible.co.uk/aduk/site/product.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1113724040.1224852164 @@@@&BV_EngineID=ccckadefhlejkllcefecekjdfikdfig.0&productID=BK_NAXO_000309UK

[Kafka's Crow]

[b]Ah, but for me the love of literature and learning comes before the mere financial rewards from potential employment. Any job that comes from my degree (part-time six year course) would be a by-product of the study and not the object of it.

...for me the bottom line is that you have to go with your passions in life and be damned with everything else. Life is all too short.

If I end up highly educated in the field of literature (I intend to study a MA too) and I only end up talking philosophically to some landlord's dog somewhere then so be it, at least I will be satisfied and regret less.



Oh Neely, you remind me so much of my younger self. I made the same decision almost two decades ago. In my case, I never bothered about money and a teacher told me that if you don't care about money it comes to you (heard Cormack McCarthy say the same thing recently) and believe me he was right. I never ran after money, it just came to me. But there is a downside to it. You don't care about money, it comes to you and since you don't care about it, you never learn how to handle it so that money never stays with you! People cheat and deceive you left right and centre, you end up spending everything else (mostly on education and books etc) still it is lovely to be not bothered about this trash. In this day and age you'd be extremely lucky to find even a landlord's dog to talk philosophically with. That is the real downside. Money is not the problem, it is the intellectual loneliness that kills you. You know you chose the different road and it has made all the difference but you don't find any fellow traveler. Everybody else is just running after everything else. This situation has become so bad that I believe that we are ripe for a revival of the old-fashioned 'intellectual circles' now. There has to be an end to the thinking person's exile from society.

[dogar sahab]

^100%agreed!!!

[LitNetIsGreat]

In this day and age you'd be extremely lucky to find even a landlord's dog to talk philosophically with. That is the real downside. Money is not the problem, it is the intellectual loneliness that kills you. You know you chose the different road and it has made all the difference but you don't find any fellow traveler. Everybody else is just running after everything else. This situation has become so bad that I believe that we are ripe for a revival of the old-fashioned 'intellectual circles' now. There has to be an end to the thinking person's exile from society.

Yes the 'road less travelled' indeed. Financially as long as there is enough for food and beer and odd things I am happy enough (would like to visit Italy and Greece though).

Yes I am beginning to feel somewhat elitist more and more these days, though I wouldn't consider myself 'intellectual' in any way, but as more as an eternal student. Whereas people study in order to work, it seems that I will work in order to study.

[Within Me]

Literature is my passion !
And “literature freak” is my PC`s password =] !
I feel that there is something spiritual about it , something that is way beyond the touchable !
Literature is in my blood , I don`t see it as “something to study” only .. for me it`s everything !
I`m a student of literature , and I enjoy it to the extent that it became the center which my life revolves around !
I don`t know how many of you feel the same , but Dogar, I truly understand you and nothing can kill your passion , as long as you have it !!

[librarius_qui]

At Within

Study actually once (upon a time) had the meaning of "to dedicate (time) to" ... ("Studeo, -ére", Latin.) Of course, time changes meanings ...

I can't say I study literature. I read. I study Latin, because I need to spend time on it, and actually learn some particular rules of functioning ...

At Dogar

Literature is something very personal ... Victor Hugo wasn't English ... (Was he?!)

Probably you read a translation of Hugo to English. I'd recommend the encyclopaedia ... The Britannica: search for "English Literature". Take some history of English literature. This might help you to develop your interests on the subject.

I believe ...


librarius
:crash:

[dogar sahab]

Literature is my passion !
And “literature freak” is my PC`s password =] !
I feel that there is something spiritual about it , something that is way beyond the touchable !
Literature is in my blood , I don`t see it as “something to study” only .. for me it`s everything !
I`m a student of literature , and I enjoy it to the extent that it became the center which my life revolves around !
I don`t know how many of you feel the same , but Dogar, I truly understand you and nothing can kill your passion , as long as you have it !!
You are perfectly right!!
But you know that engineering is not easy at all..So at times I find it very difficult to 'save' some time to devote for my PASSION!!!!

[dogar sahab]

At Within

Study actually once (upon a time) had the meaning of "to dedicate (time) to" ... ("Studeo, -ére", Latin.) Of course, time changes meanings ...

I can't say I study literature. I read. I study Latin, because I need to spend time on it, and actually learn some particular rules of functioning ...

At Dogar

Literature is something very personal ... Victor Hugo wasn't English ... (Was he?!)

Probably you read a translation of Hugo to English. I'd recommend the encyclopaedia ... The Britannica: search for "English Literature". Take some history of English literature. This might help you to develop your interests on the subject.

I believe ...


librarius
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I find literature a way to express....It doesnt matter whether it is english or some other language..The only thing that matters is the way how you express and nothing else..But I find 'expressing' myself in english more comfortably than anything else and that's how my world has space for English literature...

[Kafka's Crow]

When you have spent long enough time on this forum, you will meet people like Virgil who is actually an engineer by profession but one of the most knowledgeable posters as far as literature is concerned. We have some excellent people here. Check people's profiles. You will find a lot of surprisingly interesting information there. (Yes I am trying to allure you to my profile page:http://www.online-literature.com/forums/member.php?u=43466)!!!

[Within Me]

librarius , i said : i don`t see it as something to study "only".
College gives you what is possible, it needs a personal effort to know more about it, and this personal effort doesn`t come or emerge out of nothing ,but actually it`s this passion you have for it !

Dogar , English is a free language. When you find yourself in it , it becomes part of you.

[librarius_qui]

librarius , i said : i don`t see it as something to
When you find yourself in it , it becomes part of you.

It does indeed!

It's wonderful that you found this forum!

I was lucky to find it to ...
&, Please, forgive my academic vices ... I'll make my best to avoid them. They haunt me ...

You're very welcome here! :thumbs_up


librarius
:crash:

[Sevencos]

literature is not a job ,a profession or other things,it's something takes your life, your spirits,makes you confused and sensible and over again.it's a mental thing.
and you don't need hold your passion,because it will be gone some day when you found
a difficult expression or you realized its heavy meaning,literature is not always friendly and makes you pleasure.
keep reading ,writing,thinking,even you are a engineering student and yeild to your parent,you stand on literature side.
by the way i really hate Shakespeare.........

[dogar sahab]

^You hate Shakespeare??Don't say this...
It might be because you find his stuff run-of-the-mill sort but it's not....

Yeah i am an avid reader..and continue my intensive reading...

[Sevencos]

i'm sorry i said some bad words about Shakespeare
but i really mean ,for a non-native speaker of english,even in my language ,Shakespeare is too hard.
especially those notes on the bottom of the pages.Maybe it's a kind of afraid or Shakespeare is not my kind.
i just want to know what's the literature like in other countries,how other people talk about it.so i'm here~
and i like 6words story
man meets woman,crush,boom,bang.
Child weeps, mother fears, father enjoys.
interesting!
by the way ,i hope i can know the meaning of "run-of-the-mill"........

[dogar sahab]

^you can know the meanng of 'run-of-the-mill' by me buddy!!
It's meaning is 'boring,bogus,not new'...