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Everyone was so supportive and appreciative last semester, i thought I would list my required reading for:
"Literary Journalism in The Twentieth Century"
Actually, the readings are more involved. The required texts are:

Dispatches - Michael Herr
Hiroshima - John Hersey
Random Family - Nicole LeBlanc
Up In The Old Hotel - Joseph Mitchell
Picture - Lillian Ross
Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson

Yipee! I have read four of the texts already!
The Prof. wrote a big book about the topic.
His name is N0rman Sims.
And he is great!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 2 February 2007 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

'mental fight', with r0g3r p00ley:

paradise lost
the pilgram's progress
like, all of blake
philip pullman's 'his dark materials'

― tom west (thomp), Friday, 2 February 2007 06:02 (eighteen years ago)

also my dissertation on blackface, sigh

― tom west (thomp), Friday, 2 February 2007 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

i have .. browsed in .. one of yours. best i can do.

― tom west (thomp), Friday, 2 February 2007 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

"Writer's Context" with, well, me.

"Some Thing Black" - Jacques Roubaud
"Adventures in Capitalism" - Toby Litt
"Not I" - Samuel Beckett

I'm ashamed to say that of the above I've only read the Thompson, Bunyan and Pullman. I can dimly recall the odd bit of Blake, but it was never really my bag.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 2 February 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

Literature of the (Early) Medieval Church (with my Latin prof, but not in Latin):

Augustine, Confessions
Prudentius, Psychomachia
The Age of Bede (Penguin anthology)
an anthology of medieval writing by female mystics (Penguin)
Works by Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
assorted other smaller readings

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

reading list thus far:

Ruby in the Smoke-Philip Pullman
Staying Fat for Sarah Bynes-Chris Cutcher
Monster-Walter Dean Meyers
This is All the Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn-Aidan Chambers
Motown and Didi-Walter Dean Meyers
Fat Kid Rules the World-K.L. Going

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

"Hellenistic Literature" (none of these are actually Hellenistic, but our Prof "has a plan"):

Plato - Republic, Phaedrus, Symposium
Aristotle - Metaphysics
Sophocles - Antigone
James Joyce - Finnegan's Wake (?!?)
Jean-Luc Nancy - The Inoperative Community

"Restoration Literature"

Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
John Locke - Second Treatise on Government
John Swift - Gulliver's Travels
Aphra Behn - Oroonoko
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
John Dryden - Aurung-Zebe

"Nietzsche and Heidegger" (the class that will break my soul)

Friedrich Nietzsche - Genealogy of Morality, Will to Power
Martin Heidegger - Nietzsche, the End of Philosophy

― max (maxreax), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

Finnegans Wake!? How the hell does that relate to anything Hellenistic?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe they meant Ulysses?

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

No, no--it is Finnegan's Wake. Plato and Sophocles aren't technically "Hellenistic," either, but I guess we're using all of these works as a jumping-off point to think about what my prof considers the main features of the Hellenistic period; that is, the reach for totality, the denial (or embracing) of finitude, etc. I'll be interested to see how it works--it's the same professor I took last semester for a twin Odyssey/Ulysses class, which was really great.

― max (maxreax), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

I guess what I mean to say is that we're learning about the Hellenistic period sort of thematically rather than, I don't know, chronologically or something.

― max (maxreax), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

After reading through your lists, I am actually less intimidated by the physiology textbook I have to read. Thanks!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:18 (eighteen years ago)

I think pyhsiology is much harder than anything above.
Soul vs. body, kind of.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 3 February 2007 06:34 (eighteen years ago)

i i) sort of envy max's classes ii) find they make mental fight look quite a lot easier

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost) Physiology would be easier without the underlying chemistry. That being said, I don't know how I'd make it through Plato's Republic or Paradise Lost or Finnegan's Wake. My eyes tend to start to glaze over after a page or two. I'm intimidated by non-modern philosophy and even literature texts.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 4 February 2007 06:51 (eighteen years ago)

I look forward to the physiology text thread Sara, should have all sorts of lurkers jumping on board. I haven't even decided what I'm doing next semester as I have 20 hours till 'compare two heroines of your choice (Buffy and Erinna)' is due and then I have a month of student led reading.

― sandy mc (sandy mc), Sunday, 4 February 2007 07:59 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno about the Republic and FW, both of which are hard in different ways, but I remember Paradise Lost being like an awesome videogame.

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

i'm just doing two poli sci courses, so it's totally boring. one of them, 'canadian federal system' has no texts, just a 3-4 articles per week, most of which are online at JSTOR, thankfully. i like separate articles, because you only have to take 30 pages with you on the bus, instead of a 500pg text of which you need only 30pg.

anyways, for 'globalisation and governance' i am reading:
'governing globalisation' by held and mcgrew
'governance in a globalising world', by nye and donahue

― derrick harder (derrick.h), Monday, 5 February 2007 07:26 (eighteen years ago)

Up in the Old Hotel is great. One of the best books I've ever read.

― Mike Lisk (b_buster), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

God bless JSTOR.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

do all of your schools do the "e-reserve" thing to get around copyright restrictions? like, since you cant legally make 25 copies of an essay, you make one and then scan/upload it to the library website where students can access/print it out?

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's more complicated than that, perhaps? Our school is very persnickety about that sort of thing (which I guess is just as well). Which is not to say that some profs don't just e-mail pdfs out...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 07:16 (eighteen years ago)

a few options:
-the library does 'custom courseware', where the necessary articles get copyright clearance through the bookstore and are collectively bound. i don't like this - it can cost up to $50-$60 and it's a big book when i only need 30-60pg at a time.
-some put the articles on reserve at the library. the only cost is the photocopying, but i have access to a free photocopier on campus so it's free for me! i like this best - one afternoon spent photocopying, and i have the whole semester's readings in bite-size pieces. it's all ok under the library's cancopy license too.
-for my class this semester, the prof has taken the 3/4 of the readings available on JSTOR and uploaded them to his own site in PDF form for us to easily access and print. the remaining readings are on reserve. the copyright implications are unclear...

― derrick harder (derrick.h), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

I get to review my library text books for comps:

Introduction to Reference Work
Foundations of Library and Information Science

more thrilling titles to come . . .

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

I recently learned that (as the English dept. copyboy) I would be the one prosecuted if a teacher had me photocopy more than two copies (I think that's the law) of a certain number of pages. The copyright law in this country is so arcane and weird that I can't deal with it.

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Nietzsche is blowing my mind.

― max (maxreax), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

I hope you have circuit breakers instead of fuses.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe I should have said "breaking my brain" so I didn't seem like such a clueless college kid.

― max (maxreax), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

moved on to The Organization of Information

but for YA, may read The Braid (historical novel) and Anne Frank's unedited diary

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 10 February 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

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