I'm feeling a lot better about Post Civil War American Literature right now.
"Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to teach more than a thousand years of literature in about three and a half months. This message will self-destruct in five seconds…
"I have taught the first half of the English literature survey many, many times over the years. It's a course that mandates the impossible. Here is the course description in the university bulletin: "This course introduces students to the cultural heritage of the British Isles by studying representative literary works from the Middle Ages through the 18th Century." That's a thousand years, roughly, between Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People and 1800. Actually, it's more like 1200+ years if you consider how far back Bede is looking, but who's counting?"
Well, you could have chosen to organize around social status or the sorry state of womanhood or what constitutes a grotesque character in literature from the Middle Ages to circa 1800??? With baited breath, I await your next post......
I'm feeling a lot better about Post Civil War American Literature right now.
"Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to teach more than a thousand years of literature in about three and a half months. This message will self-destruct in five seconds…
"I have taught the first half of the English literature survey many, many times over the years. It's a course that mandates the impossible. Here is the course description in the university bulletin: "This course introduces students to the cultural heritage of the British Isles by studying representative literary works from the Middle Ages through the 18th Century." That's a thousand years, roughly, between Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People and 1800. Actually, it's more like 1200+ years if you consider how far back Bede is looking, but who's counting?"
Ha! Well, you have a lot of territory to cover there as well--with its own challenges, for sure.
Well, you could have chosen to organize around social status or the sorry state of womanhood or what constitutes a grotesque character in literature from the Middle Ages to circa 1800??? With baited breath, I await your next post......
Worthy guesses!
Starting with Austen's Emma ... Yeah, man! Go, John. Love you, already, as I've said.