What are the literature books u studied in sch?
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macbeth
glad i never do lit in upper sec
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Son of Singapore
Man of Malaysia
bunch of Singapore Short Stories (The Martyrdom of Helena Rodrigues)
poetry by a few fellas like Wilfred Owen
Shakespeare.. The Merchant of Venice
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The River Between by Ngugi
that's all i can remember
btw, Shakespeare's works are plays and should be treated as so, not bloody text in the normal "literature" context...
i would suggest classes act out and watch the plays, reading the script to understand the plays themselves.. they are wonderful, but if it is just script, it is dead boring... -
during my mum's time it was, but they changed it all to textOriginally posted by the Bear:btw, Shakespeare's works are plays and should be treated as so, not bloody text in the normal "literature" context...
and that got my mum ranting -
Far From Maddening Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespear
some poetry book - i cannot remember the name
those are for O Levels.
8Days
Cleo
Her World
Reader's Digest
Archie
The Adventures of Tin Tin
Gossip abt Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, etc
those are the preferred reading materials
I was not fond of lit cos i dun know how to excel in it. -
midsummer night's dream.. my favourite comedy of Shakespeare
i remember watching an "alternative" version of it performed here by my uni theater company which came to singapore
the stage was bare except for 3 lots of scaffoldings with 2 levels and 2 ropes from the top..
the actors were very acrobatic or damned agile.. going up and down the scaffoldings and ropes, while acting out the whole play without missing a line..
most amazing was the guy playing Puck.. his entrance was him sliding down slowly headfirst from the rope without his hands and the rope wound round his leg which was controlling his descent...
i miss the theater -
animal farm
outsiders
singapore short stories
inspectors
romeo and juliet
english version of 'Jia Chun Qiu' -
That is an excellent suggestion. When we were performing King Lear I played The Earl of Gloucester. It was quite fun.Originally posted by the Bear:i would suggest classes act out and watch the plays, reading the script to understand the plays themselves.. they are wonderful, but if it is just script, it is dead boring... -
How do you find his poems?Originally posted by MooKu:and Seamus Heaney poems... -
You are not referring to Federal Anthology of Poetry 1 & 2 right?Originally posted by tare:something frm catherine lim [we were encouraged to sarport local writers in lower sec]... -
You are supposed to read them on your own mah.Originally posted by laurence82:animal farm and charlotte's webs
but how come always these and shakespeare
there are so many better books and classics out there
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In the future when I have the time and $$$ I want to do a degree in Literature just for the fun of it.Originally posted by hisoka:macbeth
glad i never do lit in upper sec -
Mine too.Originally posted by the_don:Reader's Digest
Archie
The Adventures of Tin Tin
those are the preferred reading materials -
charlotte's web
or else the lightning god
nice books -
Animal Farm
Charlotte's Web
Sing to the Dawn
and poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer and Ezra Pound
Chim stuff sia
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It is about life. You don't have to excel in it since nothing in this world is perfect.Originally posted by the_don:I was not fond of lit cos i dun know how to excel in it. -
x2Originally posted by suss.adele:or else the lightning god
nice books -
Got English version of 'Jia Chun Qiu' meh? This I must see.Originally posted by 798:english version of 'Jia Chun Qiu' -
Not my favourite poets, chim indeed.Originally posted by Master -_-:and poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer and Ezra Pound
Chim stuff sia -
sound like arcobatic act instead leh.. but that makes shakespear fun!Originally posted by the Bear:midsummer night's dream.. my favourite comedy of Shakespeare
i remember watching an "alternative" version of it performed here by my uni theater company which came to singapore
the stage was bare except for 3 lots of scaffoldings with 2 levels and 2 ropes from the top..
the actors were very acrobatic or damned agile.. going up and down the scaffoldings and ropes, while acting out the whole play without missing a line..
most amazing was the guy playing Puck.. his entrance was him sliding down slowly headfirst from the rope without his hands and the rope wound round his leg which was controlling his descent...
i miss the theater
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Originally posted by DeadPoet:Mine too. *great minds think alike*
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we nvr act out... but we watched the bloody play [on vcr] umpteem times *grumbles* end up most of us just sleep in the dark dark av roomOriginally posted by the Bear:i would suggest classes act out and watch the plays, reading the script to understand the plays themselves.. they are wonderful, but if it is just script, it is dead boring... -
Lots of hidden murderous intent.Originally posted by DeadPoet:How do you find his poems?
You won't catch anything at all unless you know the history of his life and the history of Ireland.
And if you don't know the history, it can become very easy for you to grossly misinterpret the poems into something that's entirely different!
It was TOUGH.
But impactful... -
What do you all mean by Shakespeare as text?
I remember back then, students would be armed with all sorts of guides, even those books where both the Shakespearean version and plain English version would be printed on facing sides of a book. -
Tripods ... A little more than dopod and a little better ipod..
I hate the emotional blackmail from my teacher but I score better at lit than eng. -
sing to the dawn
a book which compiled shortened and adapted some of shakspeare's works
the lightning god and other stories by catherine lim