Vilette is a really odd Bronte to be teaching. I'd imagine Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Shirley, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and possibly Agnes Grey would come before Vilette.

Eliot - The Waste Land.

Good fucking luck. Godspeed. I actually love Eliot, but The Waste Land is pure insanity. I have to stop talking about it now or the flashbacks might return.

I've of the opinion that 'Shirley' is actually Charlotte's most interesting text, from a literary point of view. More flawed than Jane Eyre, but you wanna talk about fodder for essays . . . .

I've never actually read Vilette, but the only Bronte novel that would have surprised me more would have been The Professor. From what I know of Vilette, I can't see how the theme of "Writing and Text" would suit it. If anything, 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' is the Bronte novel that first leaps to mind in that area (and I'm not saying that just 'cause I'm a big Anne pusher!)

I would probably enjoy writing about The Waste Land more now, but I was in second year when I wrote on it, and it was just huge and overwhelming at the time. I mean, I got a really great mark, but I don't feel I ever properly grasped what it was all about. Or maybe that's the point.

I liked The Waste Land until they started asking me stuff about it.

THERE'S JUST TOO MUCH.

All far too intellectual for me. I know a few of the authors but those titles are an absolute mystery!

An audio commentary on what? *confused*

Mmm...sandwich.

I'm thinking that I probably haven't heard of it because it's lame, hehe.

My English teacher from last year keeps wanting to send me texts, despite the fact Mum's trying to explain to him that I didn't really want to do English, anyway.

Oooh, Buffy! I had a Buffy watching spree over the summer, but I haven't really seen it much since.

Good luck with today's exams :)

Thanks very much :D

xx

Ha, ha, The Waste Land. I just did an exam on that and it sucked. Well actually I dind't answer that question, but I'm so happy I didn't have to answer it.

Ulysses is, imho, way too hard for an undergraduate. I couldn't handle it. Scaaary.

YAY NABAKOV.

Is that all you have to read? Do you just do one English module? We have a text a week for each module (ergo, four texts a week).

(By "is that all you have to read" I mean in number. They look fucking hard, and I wish you the best of luck. Heh.)

Snap (the fact that I never do the reading is beside the point).

Although in fairness, we have to read mammoth essays for Literary Theory, in flimsy concepts, most of them written in wankerese, which is a language I don't speak.

Cheerio, Michael. xxx

At least you'll know stuff when you graduate!

As for the rest of us...

Hahaha, excellent point! I suppose all that reading in such a short span of time makes every book a blur.

*nods* One text for each module. If you have a brain, you choose a module that doesn't have much required reading, like creative writing, and then if you're lucky, you get it down to three, three and a half.

My uni is crazy. I think we're trying to pretend we're an establishment of educational merit.

The bright side is, of course, I've read loads of stuff in the last year and a half that I would never have done otherwise.

*nods* I see. From what I've read, my uni is a bit over-the-top on course reading. Last semester I did a great module on Victorian fiction where we actually studied a book for more than a week! :D

Nah I have one more exam left - on said module, in fact!

I loved it, it was a wonderful course. What texts would you do on that course?

I loved Middlemarch with all my tiny little heart. Seriously. It looks quite intimidating and it's tough to get through the first hundred pages or so, but after that, ohmygod it's brilliant.

But then serials and penny dreadfuls are pretty fascinating, especially in context. Ooooh that's a dilemma.

Ulysses was a bitch to get through on its own. An interesting bitch, but a bitch nevertheless. The English faculty must be crazy to lob all those books at you in a semester.

Yes! It was such a struggle to fight the urge to go through it with a red pen. "I understand what you're trying to do, Mister Joyce, but frankly, IT'S MAKING MY HEAD HURT!!"

This made me laugh out loud, and Lewis tut really loudly (he loves Joyce). I, for one, am with you, sir.