Did a quick search and couldn't really find any definitive threads on people studying English Lit at degree level. So apologies if I've missed the boat.
Just thought it would be nice to see how many on here are studying English? I'm guessing all the secondary school/college/high school whether you're English or American or other will be. But who's studying or has studied for their degree in it? Or even has a career in the field?
Well let this be the discussion for it.
I'm a 20 year old second year student at Northumbria University, studying English Literature and History currently.
Went for the joint honours degree as I thought by studying both fields, I wouldn't get bored or bogged down in one particular module! Although sometimes I wish I was doing sing honours literature as they have a more varied module option choice.
To those who are or have studied English, how did you find the degree? Do you feel that academic success at degree level means a good writer? Or do you think great writers can perform hoeplessy at the critical side of things? Essentially what the degree trains you as.
I have an obsession with the idea of studying english could be a deterrernt for writing. I know many many writers great and not-so great studied English prior to their writing careers. However, could it be argued that studying in depth the canon in all its forms, technicalities, deconstructions, techniques, genres could simply scare a person to write? 'How could I live up to that' I've thought to myself a million times having put down Joyce, or Conrad, or Shakespeare or more recently: Delillo.
Currently doing a module based on Modernism, having read all the critical essays on its form and purpose, such detailed deconstructions can't help make me think 'did these writers even intend so much that has been written about them?'
Or am I simply becoming disillusioned in my degree? Ok now I'm rambling.
Did a quick search and couldn't really find any definitive threads on people studying English Lit at degree level. So apologies if I've missed the boat.
Just thought it would be nice to see how many on here are studying English? I'm guessing all the secondary school/college/high school whether you're English or American or other will be. But who's studying or has studied for their degree in it? Or even has a career in the field?
Well let this be the discussion for it.
I'm a 20 year old second year student at Northumbria University, studying English Literature and History currently.
Went for the joint honours degree as I thought by studying both fields, I wouldn't get bored or bogged down in one particular module! Although sometimes I wish I was doing sing honours literature as they have a more varied module option choice.
To those who are or have studied English, how did you find the degree? Do you feel that academic success at degree level means a good writer? Or do you think great writers can perform hoeplessy at the critical side of things? Essentially what the degree trains you as.
I have an obsession with the idea of studying english could be a deterrernt for writing. I know many many writers great and not-so great studied English prior to their writing careers. However, could it be argued that studying in depth the canon in all its forms, technicalities, deconstructions, techniques, genres could simply scare a person to write? 'How could I live up to that' I've thought to myself a million times having put down Joyce, or Conrad, or Shakespeare or more recently: Delillo.
Currently doing a module based on Modernism, having read all the critical essays on its form and purpose, such detailed deconstructions can't help make me think 'did these writers even intend so much that has been written about them?'
Or am I simply becoming disillusioned in my degree? Ok now I'm rambling.
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