Hi everyone. I'm a Chinese. I'm a mojor in Chinese literature.I study English as a foreign language. Recently I'm reading Emily Dickinson. it's so difficult to me. I'm very happy to be here.
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Hi everyone. I'm a Chinese. I'm a mojor in Chinese literature.I study English as a foreign language. Recently I'm reading Emily Dickinson. it's so difficult to me. I'm very happy to be here.
Hi maudchf and welcome! There are other Chinese members on here, and also some people who know a bit about Chinese literature and culture here, including JBI and myself. Feel free to ask questions about poetry and Emily Dickison in the Poetry section of the forum, though not in the Personal Poetry forum, which is for people to share their own poetry.
It's so kind of you to say that. Do you like Chinese literature?
Hi everyone :)
I'm Vessiana and love to be here, on this forum. I graduated BA in philosophy and my passion is to create art. I will tell more about that in my next posts.
Be happy! :)
Hello Everyone,
I'm a teen who's just interested in writing and reading. I don't have the slightest tidbit of talent in writing but I sort of enjoy it nevertheless. I really like Isaac Newton with the little I know about him. Currently I am studying alchemy. I love drawing. And I am learning Latin and hope to spread my language to French and Spanish.
But most importantly, the reason I joined is to learn. I love and am entirely opened to learning knew things. I hope everyone will feel more then welcomed to criticize my work when I post.
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Well, the first post I read when comming here to introduce myself was Virgil's, and I was stunned, because he went through a very similar process as the one I am going through.
First things first: I am Brazilian, and though I always loved to read and write, it was always a hobby, never something I wanted to dedicate my life to. When deciding what to do in college, I thought about Letters (as we call the Language and Literature major here in Brazil), but went to engineering. Years and years later, married to a remarkable woman who is taking Letters as her major, by her sugestion, I read "The Devil to Pay in Backlands (O Grande Sertćo: Veredas)" by Joćo Guimarćes Rosa. And this book stirred something within me, a potential never seized, something asleep since High School... And there, I finally understood what literature was about.
But I followed reading mass "literature" like Bernard Cornwell, A Song of Ice and Fire... Until, this year, once again by my wife's sugestion, I read Jean Paul Sartre's "The Age of Reason". And that slumbering Thing within me, already growing since "The Devil to Pay in Backlands", finally broke free. I wanted to devour true Literature, the work of the great authors, and so I dove into more of Joćo Guimarćes Rosa, Clarice Lispector, and other great names of Brazilian Literature.
Now, in less than a month away from my graduation in engineering, I am already set: I will begin college again, but this time in the Letters major! My aim is to gradually change fields, and in some years, teach and research literature. And I already have a course kind of set: Compared Literature.
I am curious to know American Literature in more depth, because, with the exception of Poe, all I have read so far is so... Massified. Maybe I didn't get to read the right authors, but the feeling I have is that American Literature as a whole became comercial, descriptions of the scenes of a Hollywood movie and not Literature per se. I will try Hemingway soon, but in a quick stroll by "For Whom the Bell Tolls", I didn't find that which I look for in a book.
So, I intend to study Compared Literature, focusing on Brazilian x American Literature and in a broader aspect, Latin Languages x German Languages Literature.
Well, so that's is it! I hope to have great discussions here with you guys, and I am sorry if I have offended anyone by my views on American Literature.
I'm new here of course, and somewhat shy at first. I've been a writer for ages but am just now getting my MFA in creative writing at this late stage in my life! And I love it. I've been many things in my life, an accomplished artist when I was younger but then life has its ways of throwing curve balls and I became a successful businesswoman out of necessity, not choice. Now I have the luxury of time to take myself and writing seriously. Loving every minute of the journey!
Hello everyone!
Obviously, I am new here and I'm from the Philippines :) I'm also 17 years old and already in my second year in college. One of my major subjects include something about literature and a lot more, so I hope that I could learn something from here and that I would be able to enhance or improve my prior knowledge.
I hope I make new friends too! :)
That's all thank you!:wave:
Hello everyone, as instructed by the site and being programmed to follow instructions implicitly, in compliance with said instructions I am therefore introducing myself. Hi, I'm Robert, and I now find myself being able to do as I've always wanted to do, write and write and write. Now that my children have grown, home, medical insurance, a livable income being provided for, and no longer chained to the vicious cycle of monotonous day to day wage earning, I find myself in the long hoped for period of my life that is considered golden, at the ripe old age of 56, still of sound mind and body, what are the Vegas odds on that? But in this time of blogging Google crazy information overload, information overload of course being an oxymoron, I find myself here, as I was looking for an obscure poem by Aldous Huxley and was directed to your literature rich site, where I struck gold! Namaste ~bob, introduction #5541
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(Welcome to the Forum, by the way!)
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Hello, I'm new and..uh.. I like literature..um..so, I hope I fit in..
Hi
Won't bother mentioning my name, since it is the same as my username. I'm a 42-year old South African who has recently stopped working in order to study English and Theory of Literature. I have an interest in Modernism and early Post-Modernism, and within that I am currently exploring Continental European writers.
Christopher
Hello, Im Dan. Newbie here. Im Russian literature lover. Leo Tolstoy is my favorite writer. Very nice resource here, i found few interesting threads already. Happy to join you all :)