All right, if you like the lecturer, I won't even try to talk you out of taking the class on Joyce, despite my own irrational prejudices against the guy. ;) I read some extracts on Ulysses in a reading course, where the teacher was such an enthusiastic woman who clearly loved the pieces of writings she discussed with us. It was infectious. I almost ended up liking James J.
The class on the Gothic novel sounds quite interesting as well, although it probably depends on which approach the prof prefers. I very vaguely remember that there's quite a lot of psychoanalytical criticism on the Gothic novel (which I hated), but there are probably other interpretations who put it in the context of European romanticism, political debates and the emerging of a British national identity.
And I'll stop blathering and playing the EngLit dilettante right now.
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Date: 2008-09-25 06:13 am (UTC)The class on the Gothic novel sounds quite interesting as well, although it probably depends on which approach the prof prefers. I very vaguely remember that there's quite a lot of psychoanalytical criticism on the Gothic novel (which I hated), but there are probably other interpretations who put it in the context of European romanticism, political debates and the emerging of a British national identity.
And I'll stop blathering and playing the EngLit dilettante right now.