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she_opened

Modules, lunacy, cats.

Dec 05, 2005 23:15

On my bed is a large, soft-back copy of "Ethics: The Big Questions". It is a foot in length, approximately twenty centimetres wide and four-hundred and forty-six pages long. I also must buy a CUP version of Plato's Republic and an out-of-print introduction to him. After reading an excerpt from Derrida's "Plato's Pharmacy" the idea of embarking on ( Read more... )

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pie_girl4005 December 5 2005, 15:38:02 UTC

I did the Later Rennaisance and Restoration module last year and enjoyed it greatly. But it depends on your interests I guess. Just thought I'd mention it though.

Oh andt the ethics book IS truly formidable. I dont know about Plato's Republic. I read that a long time ago and remember liking it quite a bit.

she_opened December 6 2005, 03:03:21 UTC

Flicking through the Ethics book, it actually looks pretty interesting and much more forgiving than the stuff we've been doing lately. What in particular did you dislike about Ethics?

Mmm. I suppose I'm being swayed by the Renaissance more so. I mean you get to study Paradise Lost. PARADISE LOST! And it's really the only module I'll have time in to study something like that.

soupytwist December 5 2005, 18:08:39 UTC

I loved the Renaissance and the American lit modules when I did them. Mmmmmmmmm, Marvell. And Donne. And lots of bitter Americans being snarky. (BTW, if it's still on the list, don't read Last of the Mohicans. Worst fucking book ever... it's not so bad as to be funny, it's just awful and boring and painful. Eugh.)

And I know nothing about the English/Philosophy crossover, but from everything I've heard all the double subject degrees are the same in one respect: there's not nearly enough done to merge the two together. Very annoying.

And I think I'll have to read that story again.

she_opened December 6 2005, 03:20:25 UTC

Consider me well warned on The Last of the Mohicans:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/english_majors/604451.html#cutid1

Mmm. Grah. Maybe the Donne and the Marvell are in the Renaissance I module, along with Shakespeare, while this is the Later Renaissance. I dunno. I guess I've always deemed the Restoration period as rather 'frivolous' and the only really major thing to come out of it was Paradise Lost. On the other hand I love Paradise Lost and really want to study it. :/

Oh, and never read the "story" again. It is not a story, per se. Merely a spurt of frutrated madness. ^___^