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David_Dovey:
Litany Against Fear
Gemmwah:
A poem I wrote a few months ago.
This is my new favourite thing.
HouseMDfan:
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--- Quote from: HouseMDfan on 29 Oct 2008, 23:59 ---All of those books don't seem to be college material...more high school. I read half of them during my internment in the hell hole that is Senior High School. but oh well.
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Hawthorne, Cooper, and Poe are canonical, definitely, and that's part of the interest in an M.A. English course. Why have they continued to be read, in every high school English classroom in America for going on 200 years? And why are they read rather than authors such as Susanna Rowson? Charlotte Temple was the most popular novel in America at its time, but no one's heard of it today.
Consider that Shakespeare is commonly read in high school classrooms, but a university campus would be remiss not to have a Shakespeare scholar holed up in an office somewhere in the English department--just because books are read in high school doesn't mean they're not worthy of critical literary study.
(Also you probably didn't read 400 pages per week in your high school English class.)
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I haven't even taken an english class in college yet. The first time I read the titles/authors my first thought was 'oh, high school student' then I digested the entire post. I was simply commenting. English majors creep me out though, so I'm hoping to opt out of english. All I was doing was commenting, though I guess thanks to my insomnia it came out wrong. And for that, I say, sorry. (I really have to get this insomnia under control...I come off bitchier than usual...hm..)
ThePQ4:
I kind of did one based on Where Will You Go When Your Skin Cannot Contain You? by William Gay, from the Best Short Stories of 2007 collection (I think it's the best thing I've read in a loooong time...) But seeing as how I don't have my book, I just kind of ripped some stuff from a teaser-posting on the BSSC website and a few things from memory... Not that great, but OK.
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/278765/WWYGWYSCCY
-Karamazov-:
I did the Gettysburg Address
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