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[11tm]

my class is doing Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
im finding it quite hard to get into the swing of the story line.
wish i was doing fairytales!!!

 

[lovenotwar]

the alien self. pretty cool, has to do with gothic genre. we're reading dracula now and rebecca later on

 

[jellybelly59]

Jane austen and her contemporaries or something like that ....

 

[spoonbender]

Heart of Darkness. It is the boringest piece of shit I've ever read. It's hard as well!

 

[jellybelly59]

lol hahaha im doing heart of darkness too (but in advanced) holy shit... first 4 pgs on just the serene environment... dw u got it good man... our teacher is an eng junky and gave us a reading list where each book is 1300pgs and is crazy hard or is just super super boring compared to HoD.... From that reading list i chose war and peace by leo tolstoy.... but yerh in english extension i think our prescribed text is sense and sensibility

 

[the-derivative]

Heart of Darkness. It is the boringest piece of shit I've ever read. It's hard as well!

Yeah, Heart of Darkness is one of the main reasons why I dropped Extension English. I don't know why people reckon Joseph Conrad is a good author - seems like a load of crap to me.

 

[deliberately]

austen.................................................................................. persuasion + mansfield park. oh and pirandello. :mad1:

 

[Rhanoct]

Yeah, Heart of Darkness is one of the main reasons why I dropped Extension English. I don't know why people reckon Joseph Conrad is a good author - seems like a load of crap to me.

One of the best pm authors imo, you just don't appreciate him and his ideas -_-;

HOD is fucking amazing and extension students should be able to grasp the ideas (eventually). Once that's done, it's a gem to work with in essays.

I think having a teacher that fully understands the text is absolutely necessary, too.

 

[missdilemma1991]

reading: king lear

 

[xx.apxx]

i'm doing fairy tales in extension english too.
it's shit easy :]

advanced english is heaps harder to me..
is anyone else diong the institution and the individual experience?
argh!!

 

[spoonbender]

what are people studying in heart of darkenss? a colonial reading or what?

"The Nature of Evil" is the topic.

 

[Aerath]

We're doing Thomas More's Utopia.

 

[ellejay91]

we are doing hearts of darkness/darkness in mans heart

so we're reading heart of darkness then lord of the flies

 

[AussieVesti]

Book 4 of Gulliver's Travels. We're also analysing "A Modest Proposal", also by Jonathan Swift.

 

[HMF]

Death of Salesman + Contemporary Texts Containing values shown through script/movie.

 

[skilli21]

I've been doing poetry crap so far ..."The Narrative Voice".

Now i'm reading/studying Mysterious Affair at Styles...and watching Gosford Park. I think the topic is Class, Gender and the Narrative..

So i'm guessing i've just got an overall theme of Narrative or something... that's so completely different and boring to fairytales and gothic and whatever others you people are doing..

:mad1:​

 

[ekoolish]

We are doing Midsummer nights dream, it's interesting looking at the variety in schools.

 

[ekoolish]

Death of Salesman + Contemporary Texts Containing values shown through script/movie.

we done death of a salesman for English Adv. sad story though.

 

[Mr bakr]

We're doing the gothic genre.

stuff like dracula, inteview with the vampire etc.

Really interesting!

 

[Sarah182]

At the moment we're studying the evolution of the superhero which is ok
We start studying Emma by Jane Austen and Clueless soon though