Hey, literaristas! Want to help me design a new senior English seminar? I'm proposing one called "Poetry, Prose, and Passion" that explores great literature from around the world (but not too much focus on American since they've just had a year of AmLit). So far I have Lolita, Hamlet, and Angels in America. Other ideas?
I kissed him, and I told him that I loved him. And I killed him.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Pix - Jan 20, 2011 2:18:36 pm PST #13665 of 28288
The status is NOT quo.
hippocampus - Jan 20, 2011 2:19:58 pm PST #13666 of 28288
not your mom's socks.
sappho
Barb - Jan 20, 2011 2:23:01 pm PST #13667 of 28288
“Not dead yet!”
How about a Julia Alvarez or Isabelle Allende title?
Laga - Jan 20, 2011 2:27:01 pm PST #13668 of 28288
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Leaves of Grass
megan walker - Jan 20, 2011 2:30:46 pm PST #13669 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
For something French you could do Cyrano de Bergerac or even Les Liaisons dangereuses. Or Mérimée's novella Carmen.
javachik - Jan 20, 2011 2:34:06 pm PST #13670 of 28288
Our wings are not tired.
And I would add Life & Times of Michael K. by Coetzee.
Ooooh, and anything by Athol Fugard for your play portion, if you have one...
megan walker - Jan 20, 2011 2:37:57 pm PST #13671 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Note: The Depardieu film version of Cyrano has very poetic English subtitles by Anthony Burgess so they could hear the poetry of the French original and have a great translation right underneath.
javachik - Jan 20, 2011 2:44:13 pm PST #13672 of 28288
Our wings are not tired.
Ooh, I need to let Steve know about that, Megan. He loves Burgess as much as I loathe Depardieu so it could all work out.
JZ - Jan 20, 2011 2:48:36 pm PST #13673 of 28288
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Seconding Les Liaisons dangereuses. Bad people behaving very badly indeed, and an epistolary novel to boot! As close to pure fun as you can get in a senior seminar.
megan walker - Jan 20, 2011 2:50:13 pm PST #13674 of 28288
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Cyrano was one of the films I used in my French Conversation through Film class and was worried the students would think it was too old-fashioned, but it turned out to be the class favorite. It's really a good version. And there's Vincent Perez, who makes a fabulous Christian.