Howdy!
So, I decided to remove The Hours from my canon (well, at least the top ten) because the appreciation for the text is lost a bit if someone has not read Mrs. Dalloway and does not know too much about Virginia Woolf's life. I don't want to be a hypocrite, seeing as I told Jessy that Harry Potter cannot stand alone. I don't necessarily think that The Hours can't, but its meaning is heavily reliant on other texts, at least in my eyes. I am debating what should be placed on my canon in its place. Here are the three texts that I'm considering:
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Anyone have any input on the most deserving text of these three? Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
-Meg R.
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the divine comedy!
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All right, Ann Page. You're going to have to give me some feedback on why "The Divine Comedy" is deserving over the other two reads. I am quite attached to the other two more contemporary pieces. The reason "The Divine Comedy" sparked up in my mind is because I don't have any medieval pieces of literature on my canon, and I believe there was some great stuff written during that time period. Dante's descriptions of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory have stayed with me for quite some time. I can't quite let go of the images. Plus, Dante deserves a place on the canon for both inherent worth and orthodoxy, if we're going by the standards of old...
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