Arrr Sez I Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Oh, do be fair! I did say: "It could have been any other subject." Phew! For a moment there I thought your intention was to derogate our great bard of Avon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Naaah ... I'd just sic GBS on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatrajah Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 To be fair, it's worth is only ever questioned by people you wouldn't trust to look after your cat, never mind design a national curriculum. Ridiculous statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeMaquis Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 I loved English literature it introduced me to Dickens, Shakespeare, Jane Austin and Charlotte Bronte. Weren't they all dead by then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairyworld14 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 I adore reading but could never get any joy from English Lit . Mind you I didn't want to take O level so my teacher said just take the exam anyway . I would have passed when I took it . I think one of the reasons I didn't want to take it is I cant stand poetry , now that does bore me big style. I love the classics & enjoy historical fiction . I would never get a kindle because I like to actually get my hands on a book & read it. I also wondered why on earth anyone do something for 5 years when they don't like the subject , that would be like me doing geography when I hate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 But Dickens are still fun! ... I also wondered why on earth anyone do something for 5 years when they don't like the subject , that would be like me doing geography when I hate it. If you did geography for 5 years and hated it, who knows? You could end up running an extremely profitable Irish airline! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Weren't they all dead by then? English literature was compared to necrophilia by my favourite English lecturer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eccentric Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Weren't they all dead by then? Martin Amis claimed he never read anything by someone who had not been dead for at least 50 years; it was proof that what they had written was worthwhile to be remembered. But I say: the obscurer, the better. You should look for writers about whom no one has talked for many a century. Just imagine the privilege to know that you are the only one to read Mary Astell or Elkanah Settle since the early 18th century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llamatron Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Seamus Heaney just got me to this thread-oh my word over analysing his poems was a form of mental torture-whilst trying to write something about this whilst avoiding being offensive to a dead man I realised that his poems weren't really the problem-being forced to analyse them was. In my english literature classes I tended to just quietly read the book ignoring the class reading it aloud and ignoring the analysis by the teacher. It was not possible to do this with a short poem. I don't really know why it was a compulsory subject-I think being forced to read something you aren't interested in and to analyse every dull word is a sure fire way to put kids off reading! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgeway84 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 When I bump into those from school who found books boring they're still the same, stunted eg their lives are footie, beer and not much grasp of life outside their bubble. The readers are all like me, sophisticated wits and raconteurs with jobs paying more than 20K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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