ENGB34 - The Short Story
Professor: Alexandra Peat
i like short stories. they are shorter (duh) and are generally more artistic in nature when compared to novels. they're like prose poems. the professor is the same as the one i had for a class last fall (critical thinking in narrative). some of the short stories from then are repeated here as well (James' The Real Thing, Joyce's the Dead - the good ones). our first study was on Chekhov, the russian playwright/doctor (like how Dr. McNinja is a ninja/doctor). he is well known for his ambiguous stories and inconclusive endings and banal dialogues. i love it.
ENGB35 - Children's Literature
Professor: Michael Boughn
i'm quite excited about this course, but only because i get to read Roald Dahl (The Witches), C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass) and J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone). but i also have to read things like Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, the Secret Garden and Little Women. the professor is a good speaker but flies off on tangents farther than i do (because he is more knowledgable). i like his stories about his kids though. i don't think it is womanly to want to have children, so that's what i want.
ENGB08 - Collisions of Culture and the Emergence of a Liberal Nation: Early American Literature
Professor: Ian Macrae
this course i picked because it fit my schedule and i will likely see it through because i wish to become a more diverse reader. however, this course doesn't have too much going for it. the professor is decent and he also has a nice monotone voice like my own. i sit in the very front so that i cannot fall asleep.
ENGC02 - Major Canadian Authors
Professor: Marlene Goldman
i was very much looking forward to this class because apart from Roald Dahl, C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling, my favourite authors are Robertson Davies and Maraget Atwood. unfortunately, this class is only studying Atwood, Alice Munroe and Timothy Findley. i remember one of Munroe's short stories (How I Met My Husband) and i've heard good things about Findley. should be an excellent class to articulate my Atwood obsession many thanks go to Jacqueline for stealing a huge stack of Atwood novels from her local library's donation pile, to Reach for the Top for awarding me a copy of Dancing Girls and Other Short Stories in a raffle and to Sharon for prompting me to read Oryx and Crake (which will be studied).
ENGC20 - Victorian Prose and Poetry
Professor: Natalie Rose
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17.9.06
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5 comments:
indeed i liked the secret garden and little women (girly books) That sounds like a pretty fun class.
stories by the chekov guy sounds interesting. is it short enough for ocd me to read?
oh look a loose string
mom brought home two sticky rice chicken today. i didn't open it.
I took children's lit 2 yrs ago....I had the exact same book list as what you'll be reading. have fun!
you would've read oryx and crake anyway.
s4p:i was apprehensive about Little Women at first. i thought it would be all Jane Austeny - that is, the author tries to bore you to tears in the first paragraph. however, i'm becoming quite absorbed with this one (probably because it is written by an American and targeted at little girls, rather than sophisti-ma-cated women). why does the author think that the good boys (i.e. Laurie) prefer tomboy girls?
moyee: chekhov is very hard to skim before class so that you'd be prepared for discussion. in his short stories, nothing happens =D
dor: perhaps UTSC stole your professor. but you would have mentioned that.
sharon: i'm not sure i would have. i judge books by their titles and Oryx and Crake sounded like dirty cake and not at all explanatory like The Robber Bride, or The Blind Assassin (which sounds like a super cool ninja thing)
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