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Current AS texts: Dracula and Selection of Keats' poetry.
Fun: To the Lighthouse (again), Essays on Virginia Woolf and King Lear too.

Reply 81

Angelil

silence

i think i might be rereading birds for an essay in the next few days.

sometimes there's so much to do, it's hard knowing where to start. and when you've read a fair amount, it's hard to know when to stop reading and just get on with the bloody essay.

lol true!
My English essay is done now, so my Classics essay awaits me: "What is metatheatre? How is it significant to the development of Old Comedy?"
What delights do you have to look forward to?

Reply 82

Clarence

Angelil

lol - are you doing the WWI synoptic unit for English A Level perchance?

ding ding ding
correct answer

Reply 83

Angelil

hehe! yay! what do I win?!

Reply 84

supercat

Haha, I got the other A. Thank God.

Anyway, who wants to recommend me something to read? I'm feeling very open to suggestions at the moment, so please give me some ideas.

Reply 85

silence

Angelil

lol true!
My English essay is done now, so my Classics essay awaits me: "What is metatheatre? How is it significant to the development of Old Comedy?"
What delights do you have to look forward to?

sounds nice! mine's one i created myself: "the signifiance of realism, morality and fantasy for the city audience in renaissance drama". i'm going to look at allusion/imagery etc and just thought that it might be worth mentioning birds as an example of how you can have something where the audience (i.e. city folk) are the antithesis (to birds) yet the very substance of the imagery. metatheatre's an odd one; wasn't there a fair bit of improvisation in classical drama?

Reply 86

Angelil

Don't really know much about the impro bit tbh! Metatheatre is interesting though, it influenced Brecht later on :smile:

oh and supercat - well done!!!

Reply 87

Affectation

rich_

Current AS texts: Dracula and Selection of Keats' poetry.

What spec is that! I bloody well wanna do it!
You lucky child...

Reply 88

supercat

Angelil

oh and supercat - well done!!!

Haha thank you, I have so much work to do now though, I'm convinced it was just a fluke. Certainly kicked my bum into gear!

Affectation, I agree, those texts look amazing! Although I don't think anything can beat Possession by A.S. Byatt. I grew to love it. AS is even in the author's initials! It's meant to be!

Reply 89

Affectation

Haha surely a sign...

We're doing Larkin's poetry- this guy is just something else. I mean, you gotta give it to him, bald, grouchy and old with over 5 women on the go!
Just proves that the powers of the mind is surely the most sexiest quality in a man...(and perhaps women- guys feel free to comment!) :wink:

Reply 90

supercat

Oh we did Larkin last year, High Windows. Isn't he fun :p:

Reply 91

slk999

Affectation

What spec is that! I bloody well wanna do it!
You lucky child...

OCR. Dracula is the Prose section of the 'Poetry and Prose' exam and the Keats is our Coursework. The texts we did last term were T.S.Eliot which forms the other half of the Dracula paper, and also Antony and Cleopatra which is another paper entirely. Yes, it's a good selection. I very much enjoyed the T.S.Eliot and to an extent the Keats. To begin with I liked the Dracula- but studying it since December is so boring. We've drilled it into the ground now. When we were first given it I did a lot of reading on it and working by myself which is how I've managed to get the marks I have in the course- but seriously- spending a whole term on one novel!!! :eek:

I'm sure at Uni you'd cover it in one week along with a whole load of other Gothic texts!!

Reply 92

Elusive Moose

Dracula annoyed me. The ending just felt like he couldn't be bothered... Seriously, you make us read 100 pages of them searching for boxes of Earth and then you describe the actual going-to-kill Dracula in a page? Goddam you Stoker, goddam you! (Not that I'm into the blood and gore at all, oh no...)

Reply 93

Clarence

Angelil

hehe! yay! what do I win?!

a slap on the bum

ooh! kinky!

Oo-er.

Ew.

I'm supposed to have read Dubliners for my extra english lesson tomorrow...haven't started it yet- suppose it'll prepare me for all the reading I'm gonna be doing next year!