The Books/Reading Thread

[cookiecutter]

Are you studying to be a cool english teacher?

 

[unknown]

I'm already a cool english teacher




....but yes

 

[Blind Guardian]

My friend is studying English at university, he's constantly citing Shakespeare and has gotten me into it too. I'm currently reading Macbeth.

 

[unknown]

my emphasis is Rhetoric and Composition, so I don't really get to read novels but I do have to take a few literature courses as required by the program I'm in

 

[Einherjar86]

I'm really hoping that schools will be interested in my proposed area of study. I'm applying to literature and cultural studies programs, most of which have been really cutting down on the number of applicants they accept.

 

[Srontgorrth]

So for English 101 I have to pick one topic and stick with it for the entire semester (i.e. for each paper). I'm probably going to do something related to Psychology or the founding of US government.

 

[unknown]

I'm really hoping that schools will be interested in my proposed area of study. I'm applying to literature and cultural studies programs, most of which have been really cutting down on the number of applicants they accept.

where'd you apply to? I almost thought about doing cultural studies

 

[Einherjar86]

UChicago, UPittsburgh, Penn State, URochester, and I'm finalizing my application to University at Buffalo.

Chicago is a great school and very competitive, so that's my reach school. Rochester and Buffalo are both fall-back schools, but have great programs. UB especially has some really interesting professors. I've also been contemplating applying to Carnegie Mellon, but most of their professors have a focus on rhetoric actually; their literature program isn't that relevant to what I want to do, which is study contemporary literature, mostly American. Specifically, I want to study how Romanticism and twentieth century continental philosophy have influenced writers of today to pursue pressing ideas of western identity, environmentalism and technology.

 

[Srontgorrth]

My friend (the guy that did those Necrophagist+Arghoslent violin covers) went to Uchicago for the one year grad program and enjoyed it quite a bit. It such an awesome campus, though the downside is that its located in a ghetto area.

edit: Lol@ how this became the school/uni thread

 

[unknown]

I should really move these posts...

 

[Einherjar86]

Sorry, I went off-topic.

 

[Srontgorrth]

I did too XD I actually thought it as the Uni thread at first when I posted.

 

[Einherjar86]

Finished Singularity Sky. Now it's on to:

 

[cookiecutter]

I've been reading this for school:

 

[Srontgorrth]

Theres going to be a stage production of American Psycho: http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=456204&GT1=28101

 

[Einherjar86]

I've finished In the Country of Last Things and have started Neal Stephenson's Anathem, mainly because I couldn't wait any longer. I'm only about thirty pages in so far, so I'll comment more when I've gotten further.

 

[unknown]

I've heard that takes about 200 pages to get into for the plot to really start (which is like most neal stephenson novels lately)

 

[no country for old wainds]

Finished Singularity Sky. Now it's on to:

i bought the new york trilogy recently, along with day of the locust, huck finn/tom sawyer, the long goodbye, the scarlet letter.

 

[Mentok]

About halfway through the Navidson Experiment.

 

[unknown]

^^awesome

tom, lemme know what you think of the new york trilogy. it's in my top ten