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Fun topic. Let's see what I can remember...
In German, Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen and Faust I, Schiller's Kabale und Liebe and Wilhelm Tell, Der Untertan by Heinrich Mann, Grete Minde by Theodor Fontane, Brecht's Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, Andorra by Max Frisch. Büchner's Lenz. There was probably more, but that's all I can recall right now. In English, Huxley's Brave New World, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, quite a number of Hemingway's short stories. Last edited by doubleshuffle; 07-19-2017 at 05:42 AM. |
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07-19-2017, 05:49 AM | #48 |
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The Great Gatsby was one of the books. We covered poems by Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath in one of my English classes.
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What I hated about Literature class was read from page 5 to page 12. If you read any farther, you will be counted off.
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07-19-2017, 12:08 PM | #51 |
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Indeed, and that's fine so long as you're finding meanings that the author actually intended to convey. The way it currently seems to work, however, is that far too much is read into it, and deeper meanings are pronounced where there's no real indication that the author had the remotest intention of implying any of it.
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I remember my 7th grade history teacher. He was hard nosed and accepted no excuses. Years later, he was still teaching. He actually called one student's mom to ask about what her daughter had said. Reason for not turning in homework: my mom can't read. The teacher informed the child that he would call her mom and try to arrange help with her homework. Mom was livid (though she really could not read) and asked if I could help the kid. I made the child read the history book outloud to the customers at the bar after handing her the book she thought she had hidden. I told her she could either do her homework or I would call the history teacher myself to let him know she could read and did understand it.
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I can't remember the titles but every one I found boring and depressing. This in spite of being a voracious reader.
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Does obscure non-fiction such as _Medieval English Literature_ by W.P. Ker, _Metfield Parish or _Poor in the 18th Century_ by Victor Peskett count? Or the the light poetry of Beeman Herbert _For Our Bureau_ (based on the subject matter of the weekly Luncheon Lectures at the Foreign Trade Bureau of the Vancouver Board of Trade)? Or would we stick to the 'classics' such as Tristam Shandy(which I haven't yet finished) or Tom Jones (which I have). |
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I actually cannot remember much of the books I was told to read in school.
Lots of Molière, for sure. Somehow I managed to completely avoid the other French Classic playwrights (Racine, Corneille...) Other, later playwrights (Marivaux...) Camus: L’étranger. Flaubert: L’éducation sentimentale Montesquieur: L'esprit des lois Baudelaire: Les fleurs du mal (not sure this was required reading, though it was definitely recommended, and I certainly studied some of the poems in class) Borges: Fictions (short stories collection - translated from Spanish of course) I'm sure there were plenty of others, but I cannot remember them. (Oh yes, I'm French ) Last edited by Philippe D.; 07-26-2017 at 07:10 PM. |
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