I’ve been thinking of doing some of those Great Courses. I downloaded the app on my iPad. I’ve also been playing vocabulary games on vocab builder apps.
Finished Approaches to Literature
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 On 01/05/2019 at 07:34 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
Not a game, in case you were wondering, but an audio book. I'm blogging this year on things I've finished in all media. No more time records for games, and no more blogging on games I didn't finish. I'll just have to finish something to reward myself with writing. That's my new plan.
Approaches to Literature is part of the Modern Scholar series by Recorded Books. It's full title is Way with Words Part II: Approaches to Literature. It's a lecture series presented by Michael Drout, a medieval lit professor at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. He also teaches fantasy and scifi classes (he's a fan of Lord of the Rings).
I never know what to say about these audio lecture series. I've been into them for many years now through The Modern Scholar and The Teaching Company. They are always great and give me tons of ideas and insights (I've actually experienced a kind of intellectual extasy from the ones on music from Prof. Greenberg).
I've already heard Prof. Drout's Way with Words: part 3 about Grammar. That was great, so I went to Part 4 about Poetry because that was the one I could find in my library system. Well, that was great too, so I had to get part 1 and 2. I'm most excited about part 1, however, Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion, which I just started. I need some help in this regard.
There were many interesting ideas in Approaches to Literature, but what I'm remembering right now is one lecture on The Canon. This is a list of what the learned establishment thinks are the best works of literature of all time. I knew there were some lists out there, but not that there was an established Canon. It apparently changes a bit over time, and I'm not sure who oversees it, but I'm going to research it right now.
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