Welcome Kathie M. :wave: Glad to have you here, and hope you have lots of fun in the discussions. Who wasn't disappointed that Laurie didn't end up with Jo? :lol:
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Welcome Kathie M. :wave: Glad to have you here, and hope you have lots of fun in the discussions. Who wasn't disappointed that Laurie didn't end up with Jo? :lol:
Hyacinth Girl-- Sounds like you did some interesting stuff with the comparative lit. angle. I've always found comparative studies appealing. What Spanish writers were you working with? I haven't had as much experience with Spanish texts in the Renaissance, as I have Italian because I've never really studied the Spanish language. I did write a chapter on Garcilaso in my thesis from a few years back though, mostly because a grad. student in the department where I was had done some wonderful translations of his sonnets.
I'm actually working on a couple of papers on Shakespeare right now. The one I'm writing at the moment is on ekphrasis in relation to the Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis. The other paper is on The Tempest, and focuses on the masque presented by Prospero toward the end of the play. Look forward to seeing you 'round the forums.
Hello All,
Well I took the poll (depressing there are only six people in my age group - what the hell?). Ok, Children I am your chaparone please keep your hands and feet inside the forums at all times. Jenni please sit down or I am telling your Mom.
Alrighty, Folks! I am currently in Iraq and I just found out about this forum when I was doing some reaseach for Yeats. Yes, I am taking a Lit Class and I maybe doing my research paper or Yeats.
My favorite Yeats poem is The Lake Isle of Innisfree, can't help it but I love it and I enjoy Irish Folklore even though I am not even close to being Irish (although I did vacation in Ireland this past November - it was Awsome).
Anyway, that's me and well frankly there isn't much else to say. Got to go move some people unto trailers.
Later,
Vada
Welcome to the LitNet Vada from another "older" member :)
Hi all newbies! I hope that you guys are going to enjoy yourself here!
Vada, I recently heard Lake Isle of Innisfree recited by Yeats (I think that's what he recited). "But Yeats is dead!" you say. There is a new CD called Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006, that I heard about on Terry Gross's Fresh Air, and Yeats was one of the selections. He sounded like a schoolmaster threatening to paddle an errant student. The show was Billy Collins and Poetry on Record.Quote:
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Hi Vada! :wave: and Kathie! :wave: and earthboar too :wave: because I met him today!
Good day to you all! This site looks amazing.
Oh yeah, it is amazing, Ichbinian! I hope that you will enjoy yourself here and don't forget to post now and then.
Hi Ichbinian! :wave: Welcome to Lit-Net! Yes, by all means enjoy yourself, and don't forget about posting!
Hi, I'm Matt.
Bonjour, je m'appelle Matt
Hallo, Ich heisse Matt
Sorry got carried away...
(yeah I can do languages...you've just seen all of it unfortunately :D)
Nice to meet you, Matt. Welcome to lit net.
Hi all new friends here! I just realize that I am on the page of 55. Wow~~so many friends here. Nice to meet you all!
I am a girl from China. I am now living in Xiamen, a coastal city in the southeast of China. I like literature, of course, that's the reason why I'm here:). Both Chinese literature and English literature are amazing treasure for me. My dream is to become an literary translator, so that more chinese can get to konw the charm of English literature, and more foreigners can get to know the charm of Chinese literature also.
Hi Yo Yo and Matt! I hope that you guys will have fun in the forum!
Hi,
My name's Natashia. My mom was reading war and peace when she was pregnant. And so it stuck.
I love to read! I come from a book loving family and so I started very young.
I was reading Raymond Feist at 10. I didn't quite understand everything but i loved it anyway. And so started my love affair with Fantasy and sci-fi.
I was raised on childrens classics like Anne of green Gables, Girl of the Limberlost, Little Princess, Secret Garden etc.
Umm I love to sing, run, teach, garden, cook. I'm currently teaching myself Remedial Massage, Aromatherapy, and Natural remedies.
I am waiting with bated breath and much stress to find out whether I've been accepted into Uni!!! If I have then I will be studying Primary Education (little people teaching) or Psychology. I haven't quite decided, but i really should hurry up!
I hate introducing myself on these things. I feel as though i should have a model of myself on a revolving platform while i stand in front with a megaphone saying "Step right up, look at this wonderful young lady. She can cook clean, and is in general just perfect!"
I'm not normally this blond, I am in fact usually a restrained and tasteful young lady. But it is 3am here and i had a bad day!
So to those I haven't managed to scare off...
I LOVE LUCKY CHARMS!!!!!
Sincerely,
Tasha
:goof:
Hi Natashia! You seem like a very interesting person and some of the books you have mentioned like Anne of the Green Gables are really good. I hope that you will love it here.
Hi Matt! :wave: Enjoy Lit Net, and most people here write english ;) :wave:
Hi YoYo! :wave: Lots of friends here, if you will have them. :D
Hi LadyRed! :wave: Glad you joined! You in for discussing the books?
Hello everyone!
My name is Leah, i'm a 16 year old High School student in Dundee, (in Scotland) and i love books! My favourite genres have to be "classics" and fantasy but i generally read anything which appeals to me.
I love poetry - especially Sylvia Plath and William Blake. I do write, however it is mainly fantasy which i deal in: i like having no restrictions in my writing whatsoever, and fantasy is an effective medium to achieve that.
My favourite book...that's a hard one: I love so many. But, regarding Classics, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte or The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald have both had major effects on my perceptions of the world we live in, and the world that once was. For this reason, they will always have a special place in my heart. (sounds far too cheesy, i know :p)
I like learning, in any way. I love anything to do with Biology or languages, and i REALLY love French - or should i say, J'adore francais beaucoup! :p
Sportswise, i dont do a lot of that sort of stuff; Not really a fan. My Dad is a personal trainer though, so i do know the ins and outs of that general field. I do pilates daily (apart from Sunday, but not for religious reasons :) )
My favourite singer has to be vintage Whitney Houston. Such an emotive voice, but such a shame looking now at the wreckage she has become.
Fave TV show...possibly Desperate housewives. I like its unpredictability; and some of the characters are truly exceptional AKA Bree Van De Kamp.
So, there you go. A little bit about me. :)
If there is anything else you want to know, please ask!
xxx
Hi Leah, welcome to the forum! You seems like a very interested person. I, myself am too much ond of Wuthering Heights. It is a great book, I tell you!
Same here, I like Biology in all Sciences and it is one of my dearest wish to learn French and some other languages. (well, not some...there are too many but French is number 1 on the list)Quote:
like learning, in any way. I love anything to do with Biology or languages, and i REALLY love French
Have fun here!
:wave: Welcome to:
Matt (Bonnet)-- Bienvue, Wilkommen, Benvenuto etc.
YoYo--Glad to have you here. Being a literary translator sounds like a wonderful and important career.
Ladyred--Good luck with the Uni. acceptance. Sounds like you have a nice broad range of reading interests. I'm sure you'll enjoy discussions here. Oh, and don't worry about being "blond." I'm that way all the time. ;)
Leah (Dark Mystica)--Liking Bronte and Fitzgerald is never "cheezy." ;) How long have you been taking French? C'est vraiment une belle langue, et il me plait aussi, mais il y a longtemps que je l'ecrivais.
And welcome also to any newbies I've missed.
Hi. I'm Alina. I'm a Belarussian-born 17-year old girl who lives in NYC. I write poetry. I live in an illusion. And I speak spanish. Nice to meet everyone.
Welcome Reason. You sound like a very interesting young lady. I think you'll enjoy lit net.
Welcome to Leah! :wave:
And Welcome to Alina! :wave:
Enjoy the forum!
(And welcome to Virgil! :wave:)
Hi Alina! Welcome to the forum!
hi i am a female from Nigeria.I love reading and writing short stories
:wave: welcome to "Reason is a Cow"--I've been enjoying reading some of your posts the last couple of days--glad you decided to introduce yourself.
:wave: another welcome to morounkunolami--hope you enjoy the discussions here
Hi moroun, welcome to the forum. I hope, you will enjoy your stay here!
Hello everyone, am looking forward to getting to know people.
Hi pragmatisst! Welcome to the forum!
Hello,
I just found this forum today. I am an avid reader and have been for a number of years. In fact some might label me a bibliophile. My wife and i together have filled our living spaces in our home with books. I have many books at various stages of being read on any given day, and i switch between them as the mood fits me. I will confess that i've completely read maybe a quarter and partially read maybe another quarter of my books. I tend to acquire books and then not read them until some time later. I collect Folio Society and Easton Press books. I do try to stick to the policy that i won't buy a book unless i intend to read it. I recieved my M.A. in Humanities from Louisiana State University in '96 and currently live in Belgium.
I'm currently actively reading (meaning i read out of them at least once a week):
1. "Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose." Last night i was working through his essay "Christian Doctrine." This book is a massive tome and will take time to get through. I've only recently acquired it.
2. Johan Huizinga's "The Autumn of the Middle Ages." This work is a lovely read and beautifully translated into English. Provides a vivid description of life and attitudes during the Middle-Ages.
3. Antony Beevor's "Stalingrad." This is a riveting work for those interested in WWII eastern front history. It has the punch of von Mellenthin's "Panzer Battles" and might not be as intense as Guy Sajer's "The Forgotten Soldier."
4. I've been working on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion." This is a wonderful collection of Coleridge's writing. His discussions are thought provoking indeed. I just read his Essay IV on arrogance. Great stuff!
5. I've been working through contemporary essayist William Gass's "A Temple of Texts" which is also very thought provoking. His list of the 50 greatest literary works of all time is very interesting indeed.
As i'm a student of Islam and the Middle-East as well, i am currently carefully reading, Robert Hoyland's "Seeing Islam as Others Saw It" which is a very interesting analysis drawing on 7th century Christian, Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Muslim sources about how non-Muslims reacted to the Muslim invasions of Sasanian/Byzantine areas as well as how they interacted with Muslims. Also i've been working on Maria Rosa Menocal's "The Ornament Of The World" which is a lovely work discussing the culture of tolerance that did exist in Andalusia during the reign of the Umayadds over southern Spain. I also read excerpts from works by numerous Muslim intellectuals throughout my average week.
Rudyard Kipling's dictum that "East is East and West is West and never the Twain shall meet" is one that i actively try to work against in my writing and discussion.
--Ulysses
Welcome Pragg! :wave:
Welcome Ulysses! :wave:
You sound like an interesting person!
Welcome pragmatisst :wave: Hope you enjoy it here
and welcome Ulysses :wave:. That looks like a good assortment of reading material. Glad to have someone with such a diversity of intellectual interests on board here.
Ulysses, that sounds just like me. Welcome to lit net. That is an impressive reading list and somewhere on my bookshelves lies The Autumn of the Middle Ages only slightly read. I hope you will share your learning here and enter our discussions.Quote:
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Hello, everyone! I'm Carisa. I'm a bit shy when I'm new. Please, forgive me.
Welcome to lit net, Carisa. There is no reason to be shy. We're a friendly bunch.
Hey, everyone! Just started a blog on myspace.com about George Orwell's "1984" but I'm interested in the literature of "oppressed" societies and individuals, both historical and fiction. Hope to hear from you guys . . . be well!
The "wolfram" in my email comes from Wolfram von Eschenbach, author of "Parsifal" which was later adapted by German composer Richard Wagner for his opera of the same name.
Hi wolfram! Welcome to the forum! I hope that you will like it here!
Hey Carisa, there is no need to be shy. Imagine that you are sitting among friends and you will no longer feel shy, believe me! And welcome to the community!
Hi Ulysses! You seem like a very interesting person, I hope that you will enjoy your stay here!
hello everyone i just wanted to say hi and that im looking forward to being on the forums. i think its really great that there are this many people i can share my opinions thoughts and questions with about one of my favorite things..literature. im just getting started into reading literature and im reading dantes divine comedy right now and quite frankly its amazing. im 13 and though im not required to read this for school i wanted to read it and im glad that i am. well im looking forward to posting here and maybe learning a few things from you guys and anyone who hasnt i encourage you to read the divine comedy... its awesome
bye guys !
Welcome to all the newbies! :) great to have you here.
Hi literaturerocks! Welcome to the forum! I have not heard of divine comedy but I will come to know probably (that's what wikipedia is for...hehe)