February 2013
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Seriously helpful if you're interested in Creative...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/20/how-to-write-premliminary-outline-day-one
January 2013
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Modernism & Postmodernism Literature
- Fascinating.
I was asked to do some research on Modernism in reference to studying the Great Gatsby, which is (of course) the quintessential novel representing the age of modernism. I also stumbled across the term postmodernism - postmodernist literature in particular.. and I’m absorbed by it all.
Postmodernist literature is characterised by heavy reliance on such techniques as...
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
– Mark Twain (via brokenpromisesanddbrokenhearts)
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“My darling one, you are young and lovely, But inexperienced, and though you think The world is at your feet, It can rise up and tread on you.”
-Atonement by Ian McEwan
“I felt sorry when I came to the last page. I wanted to crawl in between those...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via hugtheground)
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What I'm currently studying in my first year of...
We began the year studying two plays of the comic genre; “The History Boys” by Alan Bennett, and Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”. Two pieces of coursework were completed over christmas on these two plays and handed in just today.. so onto ‘Aspects of Narrative’!
I’m overwhelmed with excitement for studying two marvellous reads; “The...
