How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature #1
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Wendy
Could you expand on this course to include how to approach critically reading a work of literature, e. g. when is a tree just a tree or when is it a metaphor for something else? Also, everyone makes of fuss of Shakespeare, which is justifiable in a lot of ways, but surely not to the exclusion of everybody else - surely there were / are other playwrights worth studying? Also, Shakespeare was written for the common man - who were more often than not illiterate - and they were plays, so they were -consumed- in real time. Yet today you need an postgraduate degree in order to understand them -correctly- or even at all, and nearly every word has to be analysed in minute detail. this wouldn't have been possible in the times that the plays were produced - and surely not was not his (or her) intention?
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Could you expand on this course to include how to approach critically reading a work of literature, e. g. when is a tree just a tree or when is it a metaphor for something else? Also, everyone makes of fuss of Shakespeare, which is justifiable in a lot of ways, but surely not to the exclusion of everybody else - surely there were / are other playwrights worth studying? Also, Shakespeare was written for the common man - who were more often than not illiterate - and they were plays, so they were -consumed- in real time. Yet today you need an postgraduate degree in order to understand them -correctly- or even at all, and nearly every word has to be analysed in minute detail. this wouldn't have been possible in the times that the plays were produced - and surely not was not his (or her) intention?
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Alanna
OMG I wish I'd seen this two weeks ago. A group assignment I was doing was arguing this very topic. Namely the issue of editor vs author vs reader. If an editor goes insane with editing an author's work, to the point where the authorial voice is totally lost, then is that Ok? Who is a work for? Does the reader's requirements override the author's requirements or the editors requirements?
BTW I don't entirely agree with Green's letter. The author has a point to make if you miss it then you miss something from them, even if you then gain something else. Missing that point doesn't mean it wasn't there and that the author didn't intend it.
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OMG I wish I'd seen this two weeks ago. A group assignment I was doing was arguing this very topic. Namely the issue of editor vs author vs reader. If an editor goes insane with editing an author's work, to the point where the authorial voice is totally lost, then is that Ok? Who is a work for? Does the reader's requirements override the author's requirements or the editors requirements?
BTW I don't entirely agree with Green's letter. The author has a point to make if you miss it then you miss something from them, even if you then gain something else. Missing that point doesn't mean it wasn't there and that the author didn't intend it.
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education
I started to study literature with this videos, it is my first time to study English literature. Thanks for making this videos.
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I started to study literature with this videos, it is my first time to study English literature. Thanks for making this videos.
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Priti
I think this is the best literature course because what can be better than a bestseller author teaching you a literature course
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I think this is the best literature course because what can be better than a bestseller author teaching you a literature course
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Chunn
I can-t believe it-s been 8 years and still this video gives one of the best explanations on why reading is sooooo important.
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I can-t believe it-s been 8 years and still this video gives one of the best explanations on why reading is sooooo important.
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