/lit/ - Literature

-Name of the rose. Eco
-Pale fire. Nabokov
-The Waves. Woolf
-The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood.
-Kafka on the shore. Murakami.

>>1793160
Mostly Ben Jonson.

Delillo, DFW, Franzen, Coetzee (though anything post disgrace is debatable.) are the standard answers, I would imagine.

I'm a second year undergrad at the University of Liverpool, studying English. It's not bad here, really. The tutors are incredibly knowledgeable, and the structure for a second year module is either 1x1hr lecture and 1x2hr workshop or 2x1hr lectures and 1x1hr tutorial. Plenty of range of topics and the library is labyrinthine. Only downside is that the department's a bit.. scatty. I've had an essay lost which they forgot to mark and I had to chase them up about it, which happened to a couple of other people, too.

Are you sure it wasn't a completely different test, designed to see if you had the guts to pipe up? The lack of the answer sheet would support that.

Start writing your next book.

>>1746045
I don't see how anyone could be Catholic. All that guilt must be soul destroying.

>>1737812
You've got to be kidding me, for specialist books perhaps, but Blackwells is as expensive as fuck.

Mergers and acquisitions you say?

>>1731315
To The Lighthouse.

A man loses his son and ends up reading to an illiterate in the rainforest.

Hitch-22.

>>1728276
I don't think he's necessarily wrong, but I think he's wrong in the inherent sentiment. The major trend these days in artistic expression is towards politicised sentiment and even apparent aesthetic fixation is necessarily politicised insofar as it's a product of unconscious impulses, which are in turn shaped by the social environment.

tl;dr women artists may be politicised in expression, but so are men.

Seconding Ozick and Woolf, adding Walker and Plath.

>>1727999
Why don't you apply to study there now? Not like there's an age limit or anything, right?

Not American. Applying for Ivy League grad school, though.

>>1713501
Infinite Jest is ridiculously worth it, but it is hard work. I haven't read brief interviews as yet, but I do recommend Oblivion: Stories. It comes in at 300 odd pages, a third of IJ, and is similar in style and thematic content. If you enjoy that, you'll enjoy IJ, but there WILL be passages you just want to rip your eyes out over.

>>1710258
..bloody hell.

>CTRL+F Waugh
>0 hits.

Disappointing.
Anyway, Waugh: Vile Bodies, Handful of Dust, Scoop. Woolf: The Waves, To The Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway.

>>1710221
Heteroglossia?

Looks like a friend of mine.

Well, I was homeschooled in the UK, most of us from the group of similarly schooled friends I had when I was out of school were secular, moderate types. I suppose the religious tinge is predominantly an American thing, but my experience was quite a while ago now.

My favourite book, even over and above Pale Fire. It's the closest prose has come to poetry.

Have an idea where you're going. Sit down and write. Then keep rewriting and rewriting 'til you're happy with it.

Everything is illuminated.
Buy one Bukowski, if you like/hate it, you'll love/hate the rest of them.