So now that I've told you about my education dreams abroad--let me tell you where I'd like to spend my next four summers (well, beginning in 2010). About a year ago a friend emailed information about the Bread Loaf School of English based in Vermont at Middlebury. Here I can receive a M.A. without taking the GRE or writing a thesis...but that's not what really draws my heart here...
Listen to the names of some of the courses:
Rhetorics of Silence
The Country House in English Literature
Writing About Place
Shakespeare and the Body
Ghost Stories
The Language Wars
Describing the Imagination
Shakespeare, Nature, and the Human
Virgina Woolf and the Art of Bloomsbury
The Poetry of W.B. Yeats
History and Memory
Realism and Documentary Impulse
There are four campuses: New Mexico, North Carolina, Oxford, and Vermont. Can you imagine? Being in such inspiring places while you study literature, creative writing, etc? It would indeed be the stuff dreams are made of. I'm working my little brain out to create a strong application. We'll see if I can stick to it, and jump this Empire-State-Building-sized-hurdle.
p.s. I realize this isn't my weekly issue roundup...I'm horribly slacking in the current event sector. I have no idea what's going on...other than the land auctions have been cancelled!!!
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2 comments:
So I'm currently reading this book that, based on your attraction to these course names, I think you would really dig. It's called Proust was a Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer. I know you are probably bogged down with a ton of school readings, but if you get a free moment, I highly recommend it. But a warning, it's not casual reading. I'll read a paragraph, and sit for 20 minutes thinking about the concepts.
Ooh! Sounds oh so good...added to summer reading list!
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