Today I should be mostly Doing Reading

I realise the point of the renaissance module is to see how the renaissance was different, and I realise poetry is an important type of lit, and I do know that studying the language in such detail one sonnet at a time is valuable for close reading of all sorts, but...
if sonnet sequences only lasted for a generation 500 years ago, are they really still so interesting we must study them now? For weeks and weeks when we could be doing more plays?
*sigh*

Last time I did poetry I got through it by deciding the fixed form was quite a lot like TV, having a set length and particular turning points and a tag. I wrote a poem about Torchwood. It's a bit out of date now.
I could try writing a sonnet sequence about Torchwood. One poem per episode. If I was right about the fixed form part then it'll be easy to figure out which bit goes in what quatrain.

The sonnet sequences we looked at in class so far seem to set out what they're going to be about in the first sonnet, like, this will be about love and also about why we're writing poems about it. Except for the Shakespeare one which is possibly about semen and masturbation and why we're writing poems about it. Or possibly about money. ANYway: Does first episode of a series set out what the sequence is going to be about? Is it still about love and poems? Or death and poems? Well, television instead of poems.

I am going to go and Do Reading. And I am not to listen to Doctor Who until I have done the bit of reading on the handouts. And then I shall read at least one chapter out of the library books that I probably should just take back and swap for ones that are particularly about poems but then all my reading would be about poems and I'd never get around to doing any of it. I'm pretty sure there's a chapter about wars or stuff blowing up around here somewhere.

studious student is studying.
right after lunch.

Redemption '09: Monsters vs Aliens, what's the difference?

late night Friday.

Monsters vs Aliens
What’s the difference?
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Operation 'read the handouts' has been derailed by finding that both Blackboard pdf and photocopied paper versions are really bad copies with some pages missing, words chopped off, and a duplicate page at the end that chops off the vast majority of the footnotes.
Luckily it has the full cite on the top and I can dig it out of JSTOR.
Which means reading it in pdf on my computer, but that's okay.

How can someone just not notice it goes from page 1 to 4 in the middle of a sentence?
and teacher said this handout has been used for years.
*blinky*

useful idea from renaissance reading

"in spite of these historical changes, the psychological dynamics of unrequited love remained the same. The urge to idealize and the desire for satisfaction remained in a tense co-existence, and both continued to attach themselves to unattainable objects. Genre, because it is both conservative and progressive, mediates between the social change and the unchanged psychological impulses. The English sonneteers adjust the formal structure of the genre to incorporate changed attitudes towards women, love and sexuality."

it's not just unrequited love that's a psychological dynamic that stays the same even when society changes. So right now I'm wondering if this has something to do with what was being called 'unoriginality' in Science Fiction. The kind of social changes that the 20th century lived through were huge and kept on heading into new areas, and it could easily be that society was changing faster than individuals so fiction was used and needed to help mediate and smooth the change. Is that still true? Are there new huge changes, or is it more that existing changes just keep rolling out? So fiction would be dealing with the same things, on different scales, rather than with huge new things.

don't know. thought needs poking. I write it down and go read the other 6 pages.

BFA 31 Embrace the Darkness

Started very well. Spooky, creepy, and really easy to empathise with. Sitting there listening to audio of characters stuck in the dark, good start.
I'm not sure I followed it around all the corners. I mean, I understood, I'm just left feeling a bit... *shrugs*
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The more 8th Doctor adventures I listen to, the more I want to watch him again. The problem with that being I'd have to watch the movie. That's a lot of problem.