How much and when?Shycte said:
OT:Just when you think the education system couldn't get worse...
Cambridge Deems Twilight Worthy of Analysis
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OT:Just when you think the education system couldn't get worse...
Yeah, not a bit like Hull.Deviluk said:
Actually, I have already had to study Harry Potter in a Children's literature seminar, so this doesn't seem at all unusual. I dislike the HP series (or at least, the second half of it) but it is necessary to recognise what children/readers like nowerdays. It is dismissive to just call Twilight and stuff shit and be done with it. In my opinion, many Romantacist novels are fairly shit too, but it is necessary to work out whether these books are of significant cultural value and why that might be the case.
Ok let's study the book and teach students; to pine over someone who does nothing but stares at you all day. That anyone can write crap and sell millions of copies as long as they write directly to pre-pubescent teens who tell their parents that they want to "read" to expand their intellige.... Oh that was hard to write with a straight face. And something that has no moral values or sense of meaning whatsoever.
English was my favourite subject in school and I have to admit, if this was on the curriculum then I would have dropped out. Even Harry Potter had deeper meaning, hidden literary tongue in cheek jokes, and references to historical/mythical events. You can actually do a lot with the Harry Potter books. Hell you want others, do the Percy Jackson series. A series of books that teach a younger generation about Greek Gods etc.
And I'm sorry, but if this is also going into part of a children't literary course study...um...children's??? I wouldn't let my pre-teen daughter read this (even if I had one) due to the fact that if my daughter ever grew up thinking that she should give her whole life over to a man and do everything for him and pretty much be a useless waste of space living only for some sad sparkly one dimensional poof, I think I'd disown her. Oh and let's not get started on the rumour I heard about the sex at the end of the series, the pregancy and the werewolf falling in love with a baby??!! Um, am I on drugs here?? We want to study a book that .... should be burned.
This woman has done a great disservice to the literary world, the world of vampires/werewolves, and well women in general.
Can we stone her now????
English was my favourite subject in school and I have to admit, if this was on the curriculum then I would have dropped out. Even Harry Potter had deeper meaning, hidden literary tongue in cheek jokes, and references to historical/mythical events. You can actually do a lot with the Harry Potter books. Hell you want others, do the Percy Jackson series. A series of books that teach a younger generation about Greek Gods etc.
And I'm sorry, but if this is also going into part of a children't literary course study...um...children's??? I wouldn't let my pre-teen daughter read this (even if I had one) due to the fact that if my daughter ever grew up thinking that she should give her whole life over to a man and do everything for him and pretty much be a useless waste of space living only for some sad sparkly one dimensional poof, I think I'd disown her. Oh and let's not get started on the rumour I heard about the sex at the end of the series, the pregancy and the werewolf falling in love with a baby??!! Um, am I on drugs here?? We want to study a book that .... should be burned.
This woman has done a great disservice to the literary world, the world of vampires/werewolves, and well women in general.
Can we stone her now????
Seriously. It seems like that movie Idiocracy is coming true. Intelligence is diminishing.VonVirgo said:
I do hope they study these novels as a course of "Literary Criticism" to identify exactly what makes these books so bad yet so popular.
LitCrit 101: Fanfiction, how to recognise it and analyse it; Mary Sues, identifying them and how to avoid writing them; Fangirls, a popular culture phenomenon.
Required reading: Twilight.
LitCrit 101: Fanfiction, how to recognise it and analyse it; Mary Sues, identifying them and how to avoid writing them; Fangirls, a popular culture phenomenon.
Required reading: Twilight.
Yeah, pornography and violence have made a profound impact on society, but I don't see them incorporating Hustler mags and R rated movies as part of the curriculum. LOLSuperMse said:
Umm, plenty of colleges have classes which examine R-rated movies, including mine. As to porn in the classroom, well, TIME has me covered there. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176976,00.html]Postman667 said:
I'm actually lucky...while my sister likes Twilight, she's not a fangirl, and the only other two young girls I see on a daily basis absolutely hate Twilight...
As for studying it, sure why not. It's not like they're calling it interesting or anything, they're just curious as to WHY kids find it good.
Next up, though, are they going to examine Miley Cyrus? Because that'd go along with this~ (of course from a musical point of view)
As for studying it, sure why not. It's not like they're calling it interesting or anything, they're just curious as to WHY kids find it good.
Next up, though, are they going to examine Miley Cyrus? Because that'd go along with this~ (of course from a musical point of view)
This is a gamer website. I think you pulled the wrong story out of this information.Tom Goldman said: