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Post by Allanque on Jan 13, 2005 17:51:12 GMT -5
One of my courses this semester is on Tolstoy & Dostoevsky. We have to read War and Peace and The Brothers Karamazov.
We're required to write 4 1-3 page critical essays on them (2 on each). Basically, we take someone else's literary criticism, summarize it and comment on it.
I've managed to get mine knocked down to 3, with one twice as long, as it's a looooong criticism. Since getting started is generally my big problem, I figure that would work better.
We also have one 10-15 page paper towards the end of the semester. We can do it on some aspect of characterization, style, or content. I'm guessing I'll do either the one on women or the one on sexuality (marriage and children). Those should be the easiest ones to figure out.
I think I'll be recruiting friends to help me get started writing. At least the prof requires the topic and outline and the rough draft at different times leading up to when the paper is actually due. That should make life much easier for me.
This is the class I'm really worried about for this semester.
*hides under her covers*
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Post by TexasMom on Jan 13, 2005 22:03:18 GMT -5
This reminds me of the old 'Get Smart' show where Max holds up a copy of 'War and Peace' in a fight to protect himself and 99 asks why he's doing that. Max says 'Nobody gets through 'war and peace'...  |
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Post by sportsmom on Jan 13, 2005 23:42:03 GMT -5
Alla
Good luck to you...........all I can say if you are way ahead of me all I read is Sandra Brown books ;D ;D ;D
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Post by rosyred45 on Jan 14, 2005 13:29:02 GMT -5
Alla, good luck with the papers.
If you have any questions, I'm sure we can be blunt enough to tell you ;D
As far as War and Peace, I thought that was supposed to keep the coffee table from elevating ;D
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Post by finnmom on Jan 14, 2005 16:31:05 GMT -5
Alla, good luck for your work We have both those book´s, I havent read them (but hubby did read Karamazov brother´s) so no help from here  We have those thou, will that count  |
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Post by Allanque on Jan 14, 2005 17:47:55 GMT -5
Actually, I already had both, but not in the correct editions. It's worth it to buy the same edition everyone else will have, just so everyone is on the same page (literally!).
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Post by mskris on Jan 18, 2005 14:32:44 GMT -5
Alla:
I read The Brothers Karamozov as an adult, after college, because I felt my degree in Literature was sorely lacking in the Russian novelists. I have never tried W&P. I recall the Brothers as being quite existentialist in some respects. I had to push myself to get through it. Good luck.
I might be able to help you with the papers. I was a Lit major and am now a professional writer (although not fiction). Of course, my speed right now is more on the lines of Judy Blume novels (ie, Double Fudge) - fourth grade. I just finished a project on that book! LOL ;D
Good luck!
Kris
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Post by TexasMom on Jan 18, 2005 19:26:37 GMT -5
My degree was Russian Language and Literature and while it was 22 years ago I do remember that the literature was very depressing. Russians like stories with unhappy endings, makes them feel like they don't have it so bad. ;D
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Post by Allanque on Jan 19, 2005 2:51:13 GMT -5
We had a content quiz today. I completely missed one of the characters (who I STILL haven't figured out who she is) and missed part of another one because the fact that the prof insists on calling one of the characters by a name other than the one in the book and I keep thinking of another story.  In other news, I haven't managed to fall behind in any of my other classes yet! |
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Post by mskris on Jan 19, 2005 9:30:18 GMT -5
Well, I'm deferring to TexasMom, then - she's eminently more qualifiied than I on this subject!! Kris |
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Post by Allanque on Jan 19, 2005 19:12:49 GMT -5
My degree was Russian Language and Literature and while it was 22 years ago I do remember that the literature was very depressing. Russians like stories with unhappy endings, makes them feel like they don't have it so bad. ;D So, uh...where in Texas were you again?  |
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Post by TexasMom on Jan 19, 2005 23:44:54 GMT -5
Right now we live in San Antonio, but I was raised in Nebraska, was in the army for 4 years and lived in Colorado and Maryland in the past.  |
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Post by Allanque on Jan 20, 2005 17:38:11 GMT -5
Hehe. I've never lived outside of Texas. I went to Trinity for 2 years, before I decided that that wasn't working.
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Post by Allanque on Feb 2, 2005 18:56:41 GMT -5
Ok, so now that we have more information...the small papers are more like full-sentence outlines. Yay! That makes life sooooo much easier. I'm supposed to do my presentation on Tuesday, the 15th.
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Post by Allanque on Feb 24, 2005 0:41:40 GMT -5
It just keeps getting better. Instead of having to do 2 shorts on Tolstoy and 2 shorts on Dostoevsky, we just have to do 2 on 1 and 1 on the other. Since mine counts as 2, that means I only have one more left to do! Yay! |
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