Kicker774 wrote:Did you hit your goal of reading like 50 books this year?
beautiful liar wrote:right now i'm reading charle's dickens' 'hard times', chretian de troyes' arthurian romances, ken babstock's 'airstream land yacht', eugene ionesco's 'rhinoceros', and when i get the chance i want to start jacques poulin's 'volkswagon blues'...probably not till the semester's over, though.
myownsatellite wrote:Yep, we read both of those, as well as some other stuff...I have the books around here somewhere but it was about three years ago or so and I don't remember everything. I love the literature of the period. You sound a lot like my teacher, he's a Medieval freak and I LOVE it. I love it too, but I think I love classical literature as a whole - Ancient Greek and Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Romantics...all of it. Right now I'm working on an argument that modern science fiction is a scholarly genre because of how heavily it draws on classical literature such as Chaucer and Keats and Shakespeare and even Ancient Greek literature, and mythology that no one really knows about. Science fiction and fantasy are mostly just brushed off as an "entertainment" genre, when in fact most of it is relevant to the study of classical literature and even the study of our own time.
laurel wrote:yeah, so i like stephen king a lot.
i'm gonna go over into this corner and feel really stupid for a bit, ok?
myownsatellite wrote:Oh, and also - every now and then they offer a SF course here at my school - Dr. Simon teaches it, and I got to take it when I was a senior so that was exciting. We actually did a lot with the intertextuality of SF which really helped get me further into these ideas. Dr. Simon is our resident SF buff, so it's cool to talk to him about stuff like that. I'm hoping that when I do have a class of my own they'll let me teach an entire course of F/SF. That's what I want to be known for
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