Month: March 2007

One quarter of the way through semester! And we have covered such amazing ground in four weeks. Let’s take a quick review: In first year: a clutch of the world’s greatest story tellers: Mena, Kafka, Parker, Cliff, Leyner – and along with this an exploration of how we as readers shape the meaning of the…

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I am going to keep an updated list here of some excellent first year LiveJournal Blogs as they come to hand. Please visit them, make friends, make comments and let’s keep the community growing and growing: For some wonderful stories, poems and comments take a look for starters at: http://suze-h.livejournal.com/ http://davidchadar.livejournal.com/ http://elisriture.livejournal.com/ http://aussielatina.livejournal.com/ http://peterjmw.livejournal.com/ http://davidoff22.livejournal.com/…

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Thank you all for your enthusiastic attendance. We began with Brett Whitely- only because he is Romanticism re-incarnated in the late 20th Century. This amazing painting is called “Alchemy” – the ancient art of turning coarse matter into gold (symbolic of the spiritual domain)- and it is a painting of huge spiritual significance despite its…

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Hi all – I have just had confirmed something that I had heard on the grapevine a few days ago, that one of our literature students, Young J, who was in third year last year – and began LiveJournal with us 3 years ago- has finally had a book of his poems published. These are…

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Hi all- an amazing week all round. In first year we had the luxury of reading four fantastic stories: Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party”, James Joyce’s “Araby”, Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and Hanif Kureishi’s “Blue, Blue Pictures of You”. These represented Anglo/New Zealand, American/European, Irish and Anglo Pakistani perspectives. Talk about international literature!…

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Thank you all for your keen participation during this second week. Third years: we had a rollicking time mulling over the nature of love in the sixteenth century, contrasting that with love in the 21st century. Are there any essential similarities? Certainly love stories from the 16th century seem to be filling our cinemas. My…

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Fabulous to see our senior students co-ordinating such literary activities: well done Alyssa. Hope the event goes really well. MG “Harry Potter Appreciation Society Meeting this Thursday 8th March at 2pm outside the canteen. Great discussions of all things Harry!” Organized by Alyssa P (3rd Year Literature) <!– –>

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Hi first years… I think we had a great start to the subject. We managed to deal with the administrative stuff painlessly and were able to get down to the business of responding deeply to literature very quickly. So good to see so many of you eager to talk about and share your ideas. And…

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