Finals suck

**ChaoofNee** · 13 Dec 2006, 01:00 AM

hate fat, hate the internet
blv

**Nomi** · 13 Dec 2006, 01:15 AM

Bullshitting on my papers is pretty much just finding a ton of sources, rephrasing everything, and using parenthetical citations to make it all legal and dandy. I've yet to have a paper that required any real thought or difficult analysis so I just cite shit like crazy and use lots of long block quotes that are somewhat relevant.

**Mr-K** · 13 Dec 2006, 01:48 AM

I just make all of my papers original, well researched and awesome and get As. blv.

**The_Meach** · 13 Dec 2006, 02:27 AM

Any lawyers here? They could tell some real finals horror stories.

**Razor Ramon** · 13 Dec 2006, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by Mr-K

First half of the course:
Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
The Monk - Matthew Lewis
The Italian - Anne Radcliffe
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

Second Half:
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
Various Ghost Stories by Dickens and MR James
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - R.L. Stevenson
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Various Southern Gothic short stories by Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner and Eudora Welty
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

I read portions of all of the works but only finished the short stories, Jekyll and Hyde and The Exorcist because I'm a pathetically slow reader and it was taught at a pretty fast pace. I just don't recommend The Italian and Northanger Abbey... and The Turn of the Screw, but that's mainly because I have a personal vendetta against Henry Fucking James.

Aside from a few books in your list, this is almost the same exact syllabus I had for my Gothic Lit course this year.

**Mr-K** · 13 Dec 2006, 12:58 PM

The early Gothic novels were pretty tough readings. The Monk had a painfully slow beginning so I gave up on it but wish I hadn't since it apparently gets awesome about... halfway through. The Italian was really long and not very good, I'm glad he chose this novel over the longer and more boring Mysteries of Udolpho by Radcliffe. And Jane Austen. Well. Yeah. I would say everything in the second half of the class is worth reading, even Henry James if you have the patience to read his eye burstingly dense prose.