English and related Literature at York?

Mrs Dalloway as a story does get better with the more you read of it as it starts off so slowly, but I'm really not a fan of it either. Woolf's writing style really grates on me and I don't like the character of Clarissa.

I've read the above and Titus Andronicus so far. I'm not progressing very quickly, but never mind!

Om nom nom < Tf2? :]

Damn, i hardly read i feel so out of place posting here.

Are all of you actually going to buy the dictionary they've recommended?



You've lost me, I'm afraid.

Sloaner - The American Short Stories isnt a bad place to start lol, some good bits in there, and obv all only a few pages long - easy to fit into lunch breaks and what not :P

And Rainbow Drops, I bought the dictionary because I didn't have a decent one around. Plus with the amount of money the rest cost I figured it's just another drop in the ocean, and it'll do me for ages. I'm sure any dictionary would do though. Or on second thoughts the internet is more than helpful..

I'm going to be doing this and philosophy. I also started with Mrs Dolloway, and I really didn't enjoy it either.
I've just started to have a look at the Beckett plays we will be doing, too.

I think there is a good mix on the reading list, at least it will give a bit of variety

Sloaner - The American Short Stories isnt a bad place to start lol, some good bits in there, and obv all only a few pages long - easy to fit into lunch breaks and what not :P

&#61599; The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 5th edition, eds Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy (Norton, 2005), ISBN 9780393979206.

&#61599; The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, ed. Vincent Leitch (Norton, 2001), ISBN 9780393974294. here is a very short list of recommended essays:
• Sidney, ‘An Apology for Poetry’. 1580
• Shelley, ‘A Defence of Poetry’. 1821
• Freud, ‘The Uncanny’. 1919
• Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’. 1936
• Cixous, ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’. 1975.
• Said, ‘Orientalism’. 1981
• Eagleton, ‘The Rise of English’. 1983

&#61599; The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Oxford University Press, 2004), ISBN 9780195092622.
&#61599; Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, ed. Stella McNichol (Penguin, 2000), ISBN 9780141182490.
&#61599; William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, ed. Eugene Waith, Oxford World’s Classics, 1998. ISBN 9780199536108.

&#61599; Samuel Beckett, Complete Dramatic Works (Faber, 2006), ISBN 0571229158 /9780571229154.
&#61599; Seamus Heaney, Beowulf (Faber, 1999), ISBN 9780571230419.

Reference Books
&#61599; The Concise Oxford Dictionary, recent edition (e.g. 11th).
&#61599; M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 7th Edition (Thomson Learning, 2008 ISBN 9781413033939)
&#61599; John Lennard and Mary Luckhurst, The Drama Handbook (Oxford University Press, 2002), ISBN 9780198700708.
Recommended
John Seely’s The Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation (Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780199233465)
Judith Woolf, Writing About Literature: Essay and Translation Skills for University Students of English and Foreign Literature (Routledge, 2005), ISBN 9780415314459.


Good thing i had this saved on me computer