Welcome to the Learning English Through Literature Blog!

This is a space for you to exchange ideas, opinions and feelings about the books we are looking at and the ones you have chosen to present, perhaps even recommend some new ones.

As we only have bi-weekly classes this is an ideal place to meet and to relate your reading experiences between classes. Hopefully the posts here will also add to the richness of the discussions in class and provide a jumping off point for areas of discussion we might otherwise have overlooked.

Basically, the more you post, the more useful the blog.

So get writing!

Oliver

Friday, 5 March 2010

New Term - New Books

Hi all,

Added the new books. So now's the time to get posting. Don't forget - one page you like/don't like/find interesting - whatever - with a short commentary, explaining why.

Look forward to reading them,

Best,

Oliver
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2 comments:

  1. Esther9 March 2010 at 11:23

    "I've seen the the devil of the violence, ant the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire, but, by all the stars!these were strong, lusty red-eyed devils, that swayed and drove men. But as I stood on this hillside I foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly"

    This is just a few words about how I like the way that Conrad describes what he feels, what he see in his mind, using the darkest adjectives that he has in his personal dictionary. Something that could not be interesting (I never have been interested in sea histories), he turns it into something exciting. The sense of humanity behavior.

    Ok, also...he uses a very difficult vocabulary for me, so is quite difficult to understand...

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  2. Oliver10 March 2010 at 07:28

    Good observation, Esther. Well done. What does anyone else think?

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