The Letter A

[mcmurphy79]

I've seen it done in a zine before so I thought I would do it here, since I am no longer doing zines anymore. It would be my alphabet issue. I'm not gonna put it on my zine filter but will put it under a cut so you can read or skip what you like.

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[silviarambles]

That sounds so interesting! I studied Modern Languages and Cultures for my BA, and Comparative Literature for my MA. I did the BA in Italy, and it is really different from how uni is here (I had like 40 classes to follow in 3 years!) so I studied a bit of everything, mainly languages, literature relevant to those languages, history, philosophy and anthropology.

I did American Lit for all the three years, but felt I did so little because I had three course on Margaret Atwood because the lecturer was friends with her (!!), and a long course on the representation of Native American culture in North America's literary tradition. One of the other courses was on the Beat Generation, so Ginsberg, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, and also another one on women (we looked at works mike My Antonia, The Yellow Wallpaper). The most interesting course was the one I took in my third year, which was on 19th century literature. We looked at various texts and authors like Poe's short stories, Bartelby, The Scarlet Letter, Hemingway...I can't even remember them all!

For my MA I focused on theatre mainly, but I included Poe in my dissertation, that compared Shakespeare's The Tempest, Poe's The Masque of the Red Death and Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books.

I'm really jealous. During my BA I felt we could have gone much more deeper with texts and analysis, but because of the way uni was organised and the stubborness of our lecturer I feel it was more like a superficial introduction to far too many things at once :(