Personally, I used to be at best indifferent to James Joyce
Oh, I've read Dubliners and Portrait before in an Irish Lit class. I like them quite a lot. I've read some of Ulysses--we had a marathon group reading in my sophomore year, quite fun--but I know it's...hard to get through, shall we say. I think I'll enjoy it, though; the prof sounds awesome.
Just out of random curiosity: Would there be any alternatives to the classes you describe above?
There are several others that look interesting. There's one on the Gothic novel, something about rhetoric and historiography (this school is really big on rhetoric, for some reason), a course on American Romanticism and Transcendentalism, and courses on Feminist and Modernist Theory. I don't know that I could hack a class entirely on theory, though. I chickened out of the theory reading group after the first set of readings, which all went whooshing past my head. Had I all the time in the world, I'd take all of them, but...
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Date: 2008-09-25 12:34 am (UTC)Oh, I've read Dubliners and Portrait before in an Irish Lit class. I like them quite a lot. I've read some of Ulysses--we had a marathon group reading in my sophomore year, quite fun--but I know it's...hard to get through, shall we say. I think I'll enjoy it, though; the prof sounds awesome.
Just out of random curiosity: Would there be any alternatives to the classes you describe above?
There are several others that look interesting. There's one on the Gothic novel, something about rhetoric and historiography (this school is really big on rhetoric, for some reason), a course on American Romanticism and Transcendentalism, and courses on Feminist and Modernist Theory. I don't know that I could hack a class entirely on theory, though. I chickened out of the theory reading group after the first set of readings, which all went whooshing past my head. Had I all the time in the world, I'd take all of them, but...