From Lait:

[caryatid]

"the fact is that we Brits love the Victorians; they make us feel cultured without having to do any work" - Winterson.

Comments

[ex_jacaranda18]

completely off the subject: i have current degree envy of those in the year below doing english and only english as they have modules on novella-writing and, next year, short fiction. grr.

[caryatid]

i am hoping i have been accepted into "writing short fictions: narratives", which has cool stuff as follows:

Different Kinds of Prose Narrative
1 Siege Narratives
2 Quest Narratives
3 The Tale: Examples from Edgar Allan Poe and Angela Carter
4 The Short Story: Examples from Tim O'Brien and Flannery O'Connor

Constructing Narratives
5 Point of View
6 Character
7 Description
8 Dialogue
9 Metaphor
10 Redrafting and Revision

SET TEXTS
Michele Roberts, Playing Sardines, (The Women's Press, 2001)
Angela Carter, Black Venus, (Vintage 1996)

[taintedsky]

my dear derya! i think this might just be the first of your 'formal' writing that i've ever encountered! firstly, let me say that upon initial reading, i immediately thought of victorian poetry, especially as i'm studying it in literature class right now! also, your commentary is so delightful, it is quite positively one of the best commentaries that i have ever read, partly because i am biased and partly because it explains everything so well - clearly and concisely. all of your inversions are placed in such devastatingly appropriate places, because i found myself anticipating the words split seconds before actually reading it and only after realising that it was inverted! i like how the pace seems to pick up with the language, and yet, not necessarily with the content. i love love love the last four lines

[caryatid]

thank you ever so much! i really really needed to know what other people thought because i have spent ever such a long time working on it, that i can no longer take an objective view. i know its faults so intimately, and frustratingly i realise that it is the best i can do! which is what disgusts me beyond measure. but it also makes it really easy to write commentaries on my own work.

and thank you very much for correcting me about the 'miss'! i had never really given it much thought, and Word didn't correct me, so i just assumed there was a dot. i'll be sure to remember from now on. :)

again, thank you sooo much; it's really meant a lot to know what you think.

xxxoo <3!

[feelthefiya]

Hey, i did a search, and one of your interests was Shrewsbury. Are you from shrewsbury? I'm from America and i just got home from visiting Shrewsbury, and I LOVE it.