themodawakens ([personal profile] themodawakens) wrote in [community profile] tfa_kink2015-12-19 05:07 pm

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Re: Any/Any: Lots of farting during sex

(Anonymous) 2016-03-22 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Not to mention that people who HAVE taken English Lit courses often study different things. I never studied Chaucer or early English texts like Beowulf in my Lit course; they talked a bit about how different the language structure was to middle and modern English, then we slammed straight into yet more Shakespeare (thankfully different texts to every other Lit course I had done from the age of 12, lol). I ended up reading Chaucer on my own time because the BBC did a series of modernised versions of some of the stories.

Likewise, lots of people online act like having read The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye are a given - those don't tend to be in British English Lit courses either. I find hearing what different countries consider 'essential canon' English lit reading interesting.