Books, Glorious Books!
This is kind of old news on Planet Kelza but I got my list of Semester One set texts last week and it is frightening. Just as long as I'd expected, yes, and with a heckload of additional reading to go with it... the scary part is just how I'm going to afford it all. Here's what my first semester requires...
ENGLISH IN TRANSITION (Literature)
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Language)
I've struck out the books that I've bought, and the ones marked in bold are the first I'll need. As you can see, I'm alright for my Introduction to English Language module for now as I broke into what should have been bus money to buy 'Language Myths'.
On the English in Transition front, I was terribly stupid in that I didn't check which book I'd need first (in this case, the 'Bloodaxe' anthology), instead priotitizing by which books were the cheapest on Amazon.
Happily, by Tuesday I'll be able to access the university's library and get books out, and when it comes to poetry anthologies I'm a very quick reader - so I can probably read it three or four times in a week if I try hard enough, to commit as much to memory as possible.
My driver's licence arrived yesterday at my English address so Dad's sent it over here first class. I'll get it on Monday afternoon, so on Tuesday I'll be able to register and then the university's facilities will be open to my complete perusal. This includes the library, IT facilities, financial help... it's mad how much a little piece of plastic can do for you!
I should be able to get the 'Bloodaxe' anthology fairly soon if I can get financial help with getting to and from uni. As for other books, they'll have to wait. It's only 'Bloodaxe' and 'Language Myths' I need straight away.
Since hardcore work starts tomorrow, I'd best get reading 'Language Myths'. Since English Language was the more difficult of the two subjects for me in Sixth Form, I want to give it all I've got for my degree. Plus my sister's laptop needs charging! I might take it into university tomorrow!
ENGLISH IN TRANSITION (Literature)
- Henry James: 'The Turn of the Screw', Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2011.
- David Lodge: 'Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses', Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2002.
- Edna Longley, ed.: 'The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry', Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 2000.
- Arthur Miller: 'The Crucible'. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000.
- Luigi Pirandello: 'Six Characters in Search of an Author', London: Methuen, 2004.
- William Shakespeare: 'Macbeth', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Muriel Spark: 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 2000.
- Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill, eds.: 'Language Myths', London: Penguin, 2008.
- Jonathan Culpeper: 'History of English', 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2011.
- Linda Thomas et al, eds.: 'Language, Society and Power', 3rd ed. London, Routledge, 2011.
I've struck out the books that I've bought, and the ones marked in bold are the first I'll need. As you can see, I'm alright for my Introduction to English Language module for now as I broke into what should have been bus money to buy 'Language Myths'.
On the English in Transition front, I was terribly stupid in that I didn't check which book I'd need first (in this case, the 'Bloodaxe' anthology), instead priotitizing by which books were the cheapest on Amazon.
Happily, by Tuesday I'll be able to access the university's library and get books out, and when it comes to poetry anthologies I'm a very quick reader - so I can probably read it three or four times in a week if I try hard enough, to commit as much to memory as possible.
My driver's licence arrived yesterday at my English address so Dad's sent it over here first class. I'll get it on Monday afternoon, so on Tuesday I'll be able to register and then the university's facilities will be open to my complete perusal. This includes the library, IT facilities, financial help... it's mad how much a little piece of plastic can do for you!
I should be able to get the 'Bloodaxe' anthology fairly soon if I can get financial help with getting to and from uni. As for other books, they'll have to wait. It's only 'Bloodaxe' and 'Language Myths' I need straight away.
Since hardcore work starts tomorrow, I'd best get reading 'Language Myths'. Since English Language was the more difficult of the two subjects for me in Sixth Form, I want to give it all I've got for my degree. Plus my sister's laptop needs charging! I might take it into university tomorrow!