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fantasyfan Vote • February 2017
Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read in February 2017!
The options this month are courtesy of our rotating nominator, fantasyfan. Voting will run for four days. The vote will close exactly four days from this post; even if the final tally doesn't occur immediately after voting closes, no votes made after that time will count. Votes will be made by post. Each person has NINE votes to use. You may give each nominee one or two (or no) votes. You may vote all at once in one post or vote in separate posts at different times, so long as you have more votes remaining to cast. You may use any number of your possible votes up to the maximum. Any extraneous votes per person (past their maximum or more than two for one nominee) won't count. Votes cannot be changed once they are cast. The rotating nominator may not vote. Once voting is complete, the count will be tallied and a winner declared. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day run-off vote, also in this thread. If the run-off also ends in a tie, then the tie will be resolved by the nominator. We hope that you will read the selection with the club and join in the discussion. ![]() The floor is now open! * From fantasyfan: I have had an itch to suggest a list of famous works of literary criticism. I think that as we are a literary club that would be a reasonable approach. The choices wouldn't necessarily be long; sometimes an essay has had a very significant impact. They could range from books examining philosophical approaches to literature, genre areas, and even specific authors or works. One would have to think about factors such as availability and price as works of literary criticism are not always best sellers nor inexpensive. ... Here's my list in chronological order, generally with the descriptions from Goodreads: Voting is closed. Final Results-
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2 to The Rhetoric of Fiction
2 to Aspects of the Novel 2 to The Great Tradition 1 to A Preface to Paradise Lost 1 to Seven Types of Ambiguity 1 to Celtic Dawn Whew! Two notes- fantasyfan notes that The Rhetoric of Fiction is expensive in ebook. In the U.S. it's $15 on Kindle - not the cheapest but doable for me, and it sounds very interesting. In PB though it starts at less than $4 on Amazon. Second, I just want to point out that A Preface to Paradise Lost only partly concerns its title; this is from Goodreads reviewer M.G. Bianco: Quote:
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I have problems getting some of the books here, and am reluctant to spend much at the moment because of some other upcoming expenses. So I'm voting for only three books:
2 to Shakespearean Tragedy 2 to Aspects of the Novel 2 to The Road to Middle Earth |
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I checked on the availability of a few of the titles in Canada, may be available elsewhere from other vendors (sorry, don't know how to travel)
The Chesterton is free here; I like the quality of the Adelaide epubs https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/che...in-literature/ The C.S. Lewis is available from Amazon.ca for $CDN 0.99 https://www.amazon.ca/Preface-Paradi.../dp/0195003454 $CDN 0.99 Kobo.ca wants me to buy his complete works - for a mere $500+ ![]() Yeats, The Man And The Masks $CDN 5.46 https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01BPMZTV6 |
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I will start with the following votes:
2 for Celtic Dawn 2 for Aspects of the Novel |
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I'll start with the following:
2 votes for Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster At some point in my life I have to read something by Forster 2 votes for Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson Having not read this when I was supposed to, it seems fair play to read it now when I don't have to. 2 votes for The Victorian Age in Literature by G.K. Chesterton I dipped into it to get his take on Tennyson (I'm currently reading In Memoriam). He was delightfully sarcastic on Tennyson, and slagged In Memoriam for all the wrong reasons. I expect it to be a treat to read. |
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You have convinced me, bfisher!
2 votes for G K Chesterton. Glad you approve of Adelaide University. It's a good source. |
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I will give one vote to
- A. C. Bradley - E. M. Forster - Ulick O'Connor - William Empson and two votes to - G. K. Chesterton |
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One day left to vote. Whichever author wins, this is an initial-friendly bunch!
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![]() I believe that I still have 3 votes left, so: 1 vote for Yeats: The Man and the Masks by Richard Ellmann 1 vote for Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C. Bradley 1 vote for The Great Tradition by F.R. Leavis This was a fantastic list, fantasyfan. Any book on the list would be an interesting read, more a question of availability where one happens to live for some of them. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler" - Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken |
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Agreed; the only one I might've passed on was the Shippey. I haven't ever read Tolkien so I'd like to read him first before I read analysis of his books. In a way I wouldn't mind being spoiled as I've seen the three LOTR films (and I think the cartoon when I was young), but I feel like this book may go so in-depth that it could lessen my first-time discovery enjoyment of the novels once I get to them.
I'm probably most interested in The Rhetoric of Fiction, but Aspects of the Novel is a close second for me so I'm happy to see it in the lead on the home stretch. After reading some reviews of it, The Great Tradition sounded like a hoot- controversially opinionated somewhat similarly to what bfisher's dip into the Chesterton found. For instance, the top GR review of the Leavis, by Becky, includes, '...I did rather enjoy this book. Leavis osculates between throwing shade on other critics and authors, seriously studying his chosen authors, and something akin to fanboying. It was nothing if not entertaining...' and the next top review, by Richard Epstein, said this, 'The Leavises, esp. F.R., were always fun to read and to rail at, and they were capable of wonderful analyses; but they were idiots nonetheless. These are the people who thought Hard Times was Dickens's one novel in the great tradition and Hardy scarcely worth considering. Still, he recognized that Shelley was a ninny, and for that I honor him.' |
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It's probably close enough to the finish line for me to say that I loathe and despise FR Leavis. The English Department of Melbourne University was in thrall to him when I was there in the 1970s, and I only managed to complete the first year of what was going to be an English major before fleeing to the History Department to do extra History subjects to complete the degree. I was amused to learn recently that I was by no means alone in doing that.
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![]() Being a part-time student meant that I couldn't just toss it aside lightly when I found how awful it was. And of course you had to regurgitate the opinions back in your essays or you were wrong and could well fail. Luckily there were enough books deemed to be acceptable for me to write my essays on them. |
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