English 3, Post 8 (FINAL), 'Tell us about a subject you enjoy studying'

Good n' Old Earthlings from INAP!

This is our FINAL blog post (entry). For the last time, you are cordially invited to write about a subject you enjoyed studying (University or High School)

Include this information:

·        What is the subject? Describe it.

·        Why do you enjoy it?

·        What have you learned?

·        What did you think about it before you studied it?

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Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post

Word Count: 170 words

For the last time, I will leave you with a written sample,

"The name of my favourite subject when at University was “Literature III: Seminar on Shakespeare”. It is of no mystery that the subject revolved around the playwright, poet and sometimes actor, William Shakespeare. We basically studied the phenomenon of his works under a critical-historical approach, that is to say, not only working with first-hand material but also dealing with critical texts and essays.

Many of the contents were concerned with the historical period (XVI-XVII Century) in which William Shakespeare lived. For instance, one of his contemporaries, John Donne, which was a Metaphysical poet, was studied under comparative scrutiny with the sonnets of Shakespeare. Both works were contrasted; on the one hand, The Holy Sonnets by Donne which applied a sacred treatment, versus, Shakespeare’s sonnets which celebrated profane beauty.

The reasons why I liked the subject are many, and can be summarized as the following list; (1)Literature, as far as I am concerned, served as intellectual escapism when at school, i.e., not having to deal with the hardships of adolescence was one of the great things involving literature; (2) Literature contains a very “flexible” character, i.e., there is a feeling of absolute liberty when working with comparative approaches. You can take walk through culture and human history through Literature, and you may learn about the “zeitgeist” (spirit of the time) of every single time period, on how humans conceived tragedy, happiness and how a “locus amoenus” (the idea of a pleasant place, a literary topic as well) is profoundly different from one period to another".

What about you?

Cheers.