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proximoception) wrote2011-09-13 06:01 pm
proximoception) wrote2011-09-13 06:01 pm
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One of my professors was sneaky and left half the readings off the course description - we're also doing Shakespeare's Sonnets, Paradise Lost, Ariel, something by the Canadian Ross McDonald, and Stephen King's 1408 and On Writing. Plath, King, non-Carson Canadian lit = normally all deal-breakers, but too late. Anyway the other available courses all had worse problems.
I'm probably also going to be reading Yeats, to present on him - we choose from a list of 15 authors, all British or Canadian with the half-exception of Eliot. Portrait was my first choice but someone else in the class announced his primary interest was Joyce when we did introductions. Which is fair enough, and I do love much of Yeats.
They say the MAs here take five classes per term, so upward of 50 books plus whatever they have to read for TAing, presumably 5 or 10 more. I don't remember quite what my intake level was at 22-25, but that sounds insane, a recipe for skipping half and skimming the rest. I wonder what the intention behind all that is.
I'm probably also going to be reading Yeats, to present on him - we choose from a list of 15 authors, all British or Canadian with the half-exception of Eliot. Portrait was my first choice but someone else in the class announced his primary interest was Joyce when we did introductions. Which is fair enough, and I do love much of Yeats.
They say the MAs here take five classes per term, so upward of 50 books plus whatever they have to read for TAing, presumably 5 or 10 more. I don't remember quite what my intake level was at 22-25, but that sounds insane, a recipe for skipping half and skimming the rest. I wonder what the intention behind all that is.