by Carl » September 3rd, 2014, 1:06 pm
^ Uni lit classes are different... You read loads of irrelevant, boring, old literature (not the good old lit) and then in most classes, the teacher wants to talk about "what did the author mean by this?" Which obviously, no one but said author can know, and SOME of them discuss the work itself. Students are supposed to analyze the work on their own and give their interpretation of different events, and discuss the things they made note of. And write a million essays about it. It's nothing like the high school ones, and when you have four of them at once, that's a bad thing. The professors expect you to know everything about every literary device, and some expect you to know the entire history of a time period so as to better understand the work. But they don't always explain that stuff. I floundered in one class for not knowing how to measure poetry or whatever it's called.