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Dec. 22nd, 2007 05:22 amBook length readings:
Jan/Feb
Frankenstein
Marble Faun
Martin's Metamorphoses
Pinsky's Inferno
Don't have the latter two down here yet and I don't know which Frankenstein text we're teaching--probably Norton? That leaves Hawthorne.
Mar/Apr
Paradise Lost
Faerie Queene 3 & 4
Confidence Man
Louisa Alcott's Moods
Pullman's trilogy
I think I'll reread FQ 1 & 2 before classes start, then. And after the term ends I'll do 5, 6 and the MCs--and Merwin's Purgatorio, as I've been meaning. Though whatever list they come up with for me will dictate summer.
So to Canada I'll take Faun and Spenser, and maybe Suttree. Been meaning to go back over Ibsen, too: Hill's Brand, Emperor and Galilean, Wild Duck. Maybe some Carson prose, Logue's Homer fragments. I wonder how much time there will be.
Reading Metamorphoses, I'm going to actually take notes, something I never do. Write down the brief facts of the less famous myths and their Gr. & Lat. name variations--be very helpful to have understanding rather than vague recognition, when seeing those.
If I could shape my own time? Little Big & Engine Summer, Blood Meridian...to write about, maybe. Resurrection, Joseph and His Brothers, Mann's Faustus, var. George Eliot, Whitman & Dickinson straight through to make sure I haven't missed any, The Waves, Excursion, Mardi, plenty of Hazlitt. Reread Tolstoy. Finish all these books I put down. Get some real exercise. Leave the south.
Jan/Feb
Frankenstein
Marble Faun
Martin's Metamorphoses
Pinsky's Inferno
Don't have the latter two down here yet and I don't know which Frankenstein text we're teaching--probably Norton? That leaves Hawthorne.
Mar/Apr
Paradise Lost
Faerie Queene 3 & 4
Confidence Man
Louisa Alcott's Moods
Pullman's trilogy
I think I'll reread FQ 1 & 2 before classes start, then. And after the term ends I'll do 5, 6 and the MCs--and Merwin's Purgatorio, as I've been meaning. Though whatever list they come up with for me will dictate summer.
So to Canada I'll take Faun and Spenser, and maybe Suttree. Been meaning to go back over Ibsen, too: Hill's Brand, Emperor and Galilean, Wild Duck. Maybe some Carson prose, Logue's Homer fragments. I wonder how much time there will be.
Reading Metamorphoses, I'm going to actually take notes, something I never do. Write down the brief facts of the less famous myths and their Gr. & Lat. name variations--be very helpful to have understanding rather than vague recognition, when seeing those.
If I could shape my own time? Little Big & Engine Summer, Blood Meridian...to write about, maybe. Resurrection, Joseph and His Brothers, Mann's Faustus, var. George Eliot, Whitman & Dickinson straight through to make sure I haven't missed any, The Waves, Excursion, Mardi, plenty of Hazlitt. Reread Tolstoy. Finish all these books I put down. Get some real exercise. Leave the south.
