Waterlog

[truepenny]

TIME: 25 min.
DISTANCE 3 mi.
TOTAL: 43.4 mi.
NOTES: Shin splints. Ow, goddammit.
SHIRE-RECKONING: We've met up with the Elves. Tra la la lally.

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Wells. Again.

Not that I have anything against Wells, but spending two separate lectures on him seems a bit much. Especially when the only women who are focused on are Woolf, Shelley, and Le Guin (yes, we're all shocked), and there is no lecture devoted to the works of a person of color. I understand that he talks about Delany (presumably in the "Cyberpunk, Postmodernism, and Beyond" lecture), but honestly--you could spend THREE lectures on Delany and not be done. Plus there's Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison and . . .

I should note, btw, that I'm not surprised by this distribution. Not at all. Just, you know, kind of sad.

Comments

[fjm.livejournal.com]

I have come late to this thread (I've been away).

What on earth are you reading/watching/listening to?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

This. (http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/CourseDescLong2.aspx?cid=2997&pc=Literature%20and%20English%20Language)

(And to answer the next, and understandably inevitable, question, it's a loan from my parents.)

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Oh god. You can just *tell* he doesn't much like modern genre fantasy.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Given the way he completely ignores it? Yes.

[cassandraterra.livejournal.com]

<3 Octavia Butler. Toni Morrison creeps the fuck out of me.

I love that you keep a shire reckoning as I've just started to read LotR and I GET it now...

[april-art.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, most fantasy writers are white... It's changing, and not completely white, but still...

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Which is all the more reason not to ignore the ones who aren't.

[carbonel]

If you're interested in this course, I happen to have it on MP3 and could loan you a CD.

I quite enjoyed both this course and his "History of the English Language" one.

(Edited to fix link)