Literature: Read and Rated
Submitted by hinterland on Tue, 10/18/2005 - 08:27
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Novels
- The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown, 2003) [7-] [It's fluff but entertaining.]
Poems
- Dream of the Rood (Unknown, Unknown) [4] [I fear all the power of this poem is destroyed in translation]
- The Hollow Men (T.S. Eliot, 1925) [6]
- The Song of Wandering Aengus (W.B. Yeats, 1899) [5+]
- Sunday Morning (Wallace Stevens, 1923) [5+]
- Vacillation (W.B. Yeats, 1932) [5]
Short Stories
- Angel Levine (Bernard Malamud, 1958) [3]
- Araby (James Joyce, 1914) [5+]
- First Confession (Frank O'Connor, 1952) [6]
- Good Country People (Flannery O'Connor, 1955) [6+]
- Gospel According to Mark (Jorge Luis Borges, 1970) [7]
- Hunger Artist (Franz Kafka, 1922) [6]
- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (Katherine Anne Porter, 1930) [4]
- The Lottery (Shirley Jackson, 1948) [7+]
- The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe, 1842) [8]
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Ursula Le Guin, 1973) [6]
- Parable of "The Prodigal Son" (Luke 15:11-32, Whenever) [6+]
- Revelation (Flannery O'Connor, 1965) [5+]
- Sonny's Blues (James Baldwin, 1957) [4]
- Temple of the Holy Ghost (Flannery O'Connor, 1954) [5-]
- Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Gabriel García Márquez, 1984) [7-]
- Young Goodman Brown (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1829-35) [5]
=List not complete yet; I'll add the rest once I get my papers together.=
I'm currently in a Literature class (Literature and the Individual) that is required as part of the general education requirements at my university. This is what we've read and what I think of them.
The theme of the class is religion, and my professor is an old hippie, born-again Christian lady. She's a little kooky and rather unorganised, which is great, in a way. She takes forever to get through things and we've only had one paper (it's about midterm time). I hate her choice of stories though.