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View Poll Results: Multiple Choice - Which time period should we use for nominations this month? | |||
BCE | 1 | 8.33% | |
1-1000 | 1 | 8.33% | |
1001-1500 | 2 | 16.67% | |
1501-1800 | 1 | 8.33% | |
1801-1900 | 9 | 75.00% | |
1901-1920 | 6 | 50.00% | |
1921-1940 | 6 | 50.00% | |
1941-1960 | 2 | 16.67% | |
1961-1980 | 2 | 16.67% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 12. You may not vote on this poll |
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04-30-2013, 11:44 PM | #1 |
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Time Period Nominations • May 2013
Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read for May 2013!
The category for this month is: Time Period 1801-1900, as chosen in the poll This month is a two-part process: The first part begins with a one-day poll to determine the time period we will use. It is multiple choice and you may choose as many options as you like when voting. This voting is separate from your nominations. There are no nominations during the poll, only voting. I will not vote in the poll, and if there is a tie, I will break it. As soon as the poll is over and the time period is determined, then the second part (nominations) starts and you can begin nominating like normal. This will run for three days until May 5. We no longer aim for a certain number of fully nominated works; rather, we now only aim for a certain length of time for nominations (three days). Nominations can be set in any time period and published in any time period, but they should be written during that time period. Notes: -Previously chosen time periods currently ineligible: 1981-2000 -The period of 2001-Present has been given its own category (Contemporary) and therefore isn't eligible anymore for the Time Period poll. Once the poll is over and nominations begin: In order for a work to be included in the nominee poll it needs four nominations - the original nomination plus three supporting. Each participant has four nominations to use. You can nominate a new work for consideration or you can support (second, third or fourth) a work that has already been nominated by another person. To nominate a work just post a message with your nomination. If you are the first to nominate a work, it's always nice to provide an abstract to the work so others may consider their level of interest. What is literature for the purposes of this club? A superior work of lasting merit that enriches the mind. Often it is important, challenging, critically acclaimed. It may be from ancient times to today; it may be from anywhere in the world; it may be obscure or famous, short or long; it may be a story, a novel, a play, a poem, an essay or another written form. If you are unsure if a work would be considered literature, just ask! The floor is now open! * Nominations now closed. Final nominations: The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1844 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The American Senator by Anthony Trollope, 1875 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 1899 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, 1896 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Eline Vere by Louis Couperus, 1889 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Nana by Emile Zola, 1880 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, 1818 - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 1856 - 3 Spoiler:
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling, 1897 - 2 Spoiler:
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05-01-2013, 02:13 AM | #2 |
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I chose 1801 - 1900 A.D. A lot of great books were written in that time period.
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05-01-2013, 07:39 PM | #3 |
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So did I, plus the next two periods. 1801-1900 is looking very popular at the moment.
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05-01-2013, 08:25 PM | #4 |
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Yes, this book club will have to be around in the same format for another four years before any of the time periods prior to 1800 to have a chance I predict. Not that I predict that the book club as it now stands will last that long.
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05-02-2013, 03:15 AM | #5 |
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I predict the periods before 1801 will be explored sooner than most of those after. Most of the books after 1900 aren't in PD yet and it's always easier to get hold of a PD book than a book that isn't PD yet. I mean if you have two books one of which isn't PD and costs $8.00 or more (in some cases) and the other PD book is offered free many will choose the PD book, especially if it's by an author whom they have read other books by.
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05-02-2013, 04:03 AM | #6 |
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yep, I wonder whether we should have subdivided this period in at least two chunks: there so much going on in literature in that century.
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05-02-2013, 04:25 AM | #7 |
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Well, we could presumably decide to do that still - just have a run-off vote for 1801-1850 or 1851-1900. Would that be feasible?
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05-02-2013, 04:40 AM | #8 |
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I must admit being a bit puzzled about ths period- voting, but that would be due to my ignorance of the discussion that preceded it?
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05-02-2013, 03:51 PM | #10 |
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It's some kind of a "free" month as every genre is allowed. But the book must have been written in the chosen time and, as usual, it must be "literature".
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05-02-2013, 04:36 PM | #11 |
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OK, the clock is ticking with only a little over two days left to nominate, so in the absence of any consensus or a ruling from Fearless Leader, I'm going to go ahead with a suggestion.
I nominated The American Senator by Trollope in the main club last month; it had some traction in the voting and I still think it has merit, so I'm repeating it here. Quote:
I gotta lot of ideas, so if no one else jumps in, I'll subject you all to more of them! I'll note two things: one, that the club anniversary is coming up, and categories can be rejiggered for next year, if people think the nineteenth century is getting short shrift. Two, I think the idea behind both the region and time period categories is to force people outside their comfort zones. Sooner or later (perhaps later, as Hamlet points out), we should have covered the globe and the (linguistic) history of mankind. |
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Oh, what the heck. I heard David Chase talking about Kubrick's Barry Lyndon on NPR this morning, and thought the novel by Thackeray would make an excellent selection for this month!
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05-02-2013, 06:20 PM | #14 |
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I'll nominate Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. It's a short novel but incredibly powerful as a result. Here's an extract from Wikipedia:
"Heart of Darkness (1899), by Joseph Conrad, is a short novel, presented as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow’s job as an ivory transporter down an unnamed river in Africa. ... a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land. In the course of his commercial-agent work in Africa, the seaman Marlow becomes obsessed by Mr. Kurtz, an ivory-procurement agent, a man of established notoriety among the natives and the European colonials. "The story is a thematic exploration of the savagery-versus-civilization relationship, and of the colonialism and the racism that make imperialism possible. Originally published as a three-part serial story, in ‘Blackwood’s Magazine’, the novella Heart of Darkness has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the sixty-seventh top-novel of the hundred-best-novels in English of the twentieth century; and is included to the Western canon." There are moments in this novel--such as the appearance of the African woman--and those final words of Kurtz--which are unforgettable. In 1979 it was made into a film Apocalypse Now which changes the setting but keeps the basic thematic approach--but loses the intensity of the novel. It is in the Public domain and easily available from PG and here at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17486 Last edited by fantasyfan; 05-02-2013 at 07:05 PM. |
05-02-2013, 06:28 PM | #15 |
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Second Heart of Darkness. It's been on my short list of works to reread.
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