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Noelveiga said:
"The course centers on literary treatments of the holocaust and it's legacy. For that purpose, the class examines representative memoirs and fictional and dramatic works, including film. It is important to note that while history, theology, psychology, and sociology are considerations in this kind of study, this course focuses on literature of the period or inspired by the period. Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Price and most noted author on the subject of the holocaust, is a primary figure in this course. We will work together as a learning community to thinkk, to understand, to analyze, to feel, and to reach conclusions that include the means of coping with our discomfort." Direct from the syllabus and explains it better than I can.
It's a 400 level seminar class and one that became so popular at our school that the English department had to take off the requirements because so many non-majors wanted to take the course. It's an interesting study on the different kinds of experiences people had in the face of tragedy. One of the books we'll be reading in the course is "Destined to Witness, Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany" by Hans J. Massaquoi and I'm very much looking forward to reading his memoir.
The stories that come out of Holocaust Literature are incredibly powerful, like the Diary of Anne Frank or Maus. It's an entire group of literary works so studying it is completely justifiable if you need that.
We have more traditional classes at our college, but the department is large and a wide variety of courses are available other than just the usual and since we cover almost all of the important literary traditions handed down from England and America at the 200 level, it leaves the option open to explore stuff that's more contemporary and specialized. You still have to take an upper division seminar class on either Shakespeare or Chaucer (in Chaucer they have you read it in the original middle English) or the Victorian Novelist and Playwrites (or all three if you really want to hurt yourself) and one that gets more specific about the American Renaissance.
But we also have classes on Russian Lit, studying either the Poets of the Northwest or the Literature of the Northwest, and so on and so forth. Jane Austen is also offered. Along with the upper division classes of Fiction Writing, Poetry Writing, and Creative Non-Fiction are standard. One of the professors is interested on creating a course of literary study on graphic novels and their impact on pop culture. Our education is extremely thorough and we have the option to take a class on topics that are interesting to us.
I am enjoying my class very much, it's enlightening, thought provoking, and incredibly interesting. Though it is a bit of an emotional rollercoaster as the topic is obviously very tragic. But it's a different and personal perspective, reading the memoirs is extremely educational. Then in class we discuss the difficulties that come with writing memoir and other things that are more literary based.
I usually don't get rid of books, but every now and then I feel the urge to pass them on. There are some books I get that are horrible and I don't want to look at them again, or I accidentally pick up a copy of the same book. But I keep most of them, I never know when I'll need them again or their on my cosmic reading list and I intend to get around to them when I have time.
Still, I'd like them off the floor so my cat will stop eating them.
Not for school? Stephen King's Just After Sunset. Most of the stories are pretty much shite, but N. is awesome. It's a Lovecraft style cosmic horror tale involving contagious OCD.
Stand was great until the end. The end is the definition of Deus Ex Machina. Gotta love Trashcan Man though.Wakikifudge said:
I've been meaning to read that. I loved Selfish Gene.the_duke_CC said:
i read this book recently too... i found the ending shit aswell. but your forgetting that right at the end, both Danica and Zane declare their love for eachother. i just thought it ended quite abruptly as it was pretty much straight after that, that the book ended.zenfox3 said:
At the moment I'm reading the Communist Manifesto, I've just finished the Zombie Survival Guide and I'm also reading a brilliant book called "Eunoia". It's a brilliant little Canadian book of Poems. The Word Eunoia is the shortest word in the English language to Use all 5 vowels. Each vowel has a corresponding chapter in the book. Each word in the chapter must use only that chapter's letter as it's operative vowel.mikecoulter said:
For example: "Hassan can, at a handclap, call a vassal at hand and ask that all staff plan a bacchanal"-Taken from Wiki because my book is upstairs. That's chapter "A". Each Vowel has a chapter and it goes on like that. Each vowel also has it's own personality. I really suggest going to pick it up. I'm pretty sure it's available in the US and know for a fact it's available in the UK.
I go through phazes. Right now I'm into 19th century children's literature. Why not? I read Young Adult when I was in elementry school. I just really don't like adult literature. Much like today's music, the story & it's contents are as predictable as the lyrics & what the song will be about. I have no interest in sex or romance & goddamn if every movie, song, & book for people my age doesn;t try to cram as much of that shit in as they can.
I'm currently reading Mostly Harmless, the fifth book in the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. I just bought the sixth novel 'And Another Thing...' and am excited to see if Eoin Colfer manages to accurately replicate Douglas Adams style of writing.
Has anyone read this book yet? How does it hold up?
Has anyone read this book yet? How does it hold up?
Right now I'm reading From Russia with Love, but I'm having some trouble getting into it. I read Slumdog Millionaire/Q&A recently, though, and loved it. I also read little bits of The Zombie Survival Guide every night before I go to sleep.
Haven't read a good book in too long. Last book I fully engaged with was probably The book thief. It was pretty amazing.