Monday 27 June 2011
My tutorial and personal website
Coming semester I will be doing another tutorial. This time, however, the teacher gave me card blanch to compile my own reading list! The entire tutorial will be focussed on the topic of Victorian death and mourning. Perhaps not the most cheerful topic, but definitely a facinating one. Basically this tutorial will enable me to make literaty mileage. This is one of the reasons that I will already be starting with the reading next week. I will be doing my MA thesis on this topic, so this is definitely a good way to make a start... Plus I am getting points for reading books that I would have had to read in preparation for my thesis anyway. So it is def. a win-win situation.
Reading list:
Secondary literature:
Death in the Victorian family by Pat Jalland
The Oxford Book of Death, ed. D. J. Enright.
Poetry of Mourning: the Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney by Jahan Ramazani
Heaven, hell and the Victorians by Michael Wheeler
Literary remains: representation of death and burial in Victorian England by Mary Hotz
Murder and moral decay in Victorian popular literature by Beth Kalikoff
Death, grief and poverty in Britain, 1870-1914 by Julie-Mary Strange
Primary literature:
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
East Lynne by Henry Wood
The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte May Young
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Some of the stories of Sherlock Holmes.
The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot.
Victorian detective stories: An Oxford Anthology by ed. Michael Cox.
Also, I now have my very own website! http://www.marjoleinplatjee.com/ One of my teachers said it would be advisable if you wish to persue a carreer in academics. The site functions as an academic portfolio so you won't find a lot of info on there.
Well that is it for now... Just gonna wait for the train to go again lol.
Love,
Blacky
Sunday 19 June 2011
Always doubting myself
Tonight I watched the movie Julie and Julia and it really got me thinking about what one of my teachers told me. The students of the Bakhtin tutorial were talking about future plans and such. Almost all of us want to do a PHD so she was giving us a warning on how hard it can be to be a teacher in University. She spoke of the huge amount of work that you need to do, that the pay is not that good, but above all, that you constantly have to prove yourself; you never have the idea that you have made it to the top. Now this last “warning” surprisingly made me smile a little. I don’t know how to explain that type of smile; it was not happy, not scornful nor melancholic. It was caused by a thought that crossed my mind when she said that, namely ‘but I have been doing that my entire life’. My entire life I have been trying to prove myself to others. Ever since I was young people, told me that I was not good enough. In my last year of primary school my teachers actually told my parents that they should not expect great things from me. Thankfully my parents did not agree with that at all and have always stimulated me to work hard and to really bring out the most of me. And I proved those dumb teachers wrong; I got good grades and made it through HAVO with a good report.
Saturday 11 June 2011
Our London trip!
Dear reader,
Finally I am able to write a post about my visit to London. The reason that it took me so long was that I had had three essays to write and only two weeks to write them in. Taking into account that I had to work as well, I really could not find the time to squeeze in a blogpost.
Since the essays are now finished I finally have time left to tell you about everything that my best friend and I did.
Day 1:
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