This is the ENGL 220 course blog for writing about World Literature and Culture.
I will post some links and, occasionally, some lectures here. For now, let's get used to using Blogger. I want everyone to respond to this post and tell us who their favorite non-American and non-British author is.
If you don't have a blogger account, you'll need one to comment. Let's see how this works!
8 comments:
I'll leave the first comment myself so you can see what they look like. Most of my favorite authors are on the syllabus already! For "literary" works, though, I really like some of the (anonymous) Icelandic sagas from the Middle Ages, as well as other medieval texts by Christine de Pizan and Bocaccio. I've read Isabel Allende's *Zorro* in the last few years, and thought it was excellent, too.
For "non-literary" works, I'm a big mystery fan and love George Simenon's Inspector Maigret (French). I also like Arturo Perez-Reverte's books, especially the Captain Alatriste series.
Let us go to the past - the 1860's and 1870's and that era! The place is Mother Russia. It is a cold, chilly place full of vodka, wealth-seekers, power-hungry demons, and political turmoil. Good souls, calculating murderers, radicals, and conservatives are born from the mere ink pen held by the one and only Fyodor Dostoevsky.
I liked Beowulf from the Anglo-Saxons.
I read 4 texts in my french course in high school that were anonymous. As far as remembering authors, I'm not all that good at it. Unless the book leaves a everlasting imprint in my mind I usually do not think about that much. Plus I have never read that many books by non American or British authors, I'm a huge John Grisham fan.
However Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a great story, if it is considered an Anglo-Saxon tale.
The Canterbury Tales are in "Middle English"--not Old English (the language written by the Anglo-Saxons). But it's still good stuff!
Wow, you all are fans of early literature! That's great (says the English department's medieval and renaissance person).
I'm not very good at choosing, especially favorites. I like most everything I read, but I'm not sure I've read alot of things that were non-American or non-British authors. I do LOVE the Canterbury Tales though. Also my brother has introduced me to a few Russian things, though no names currently come to mind. I look forward to this class really. Most of the books look interesting.
I really enjoy The Divine Comedy. That is a haul but it is worth every second.
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