Influential Books
Jan. 9th, 2003 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThis afternoon, I'd the first class from the seminar on the interactions between literature and society (and on future career goals for English majors) co-taught by Drs. Murray and Magrath.
The class' final exercise (after the Meyers-Briggs personality test) was to create a list of the books that influenced us as children. For the life of me, I couldn't think of any, apart from C.S. Lewis' Narnia series, the books of Québécoise children's science-fiction writer Suzanne Martel, and Madeleine L'Engle's A Whisper in Time. I said that they were important to me--I'd read them all in Grade 6--because they showed how an ordinary world could become fractured, could undergo a radical transformation to become something entirely unexpected.
The class' final exercise (after the Meyers-Briggs personality test) was to create a list of the books that influenced us as children. For the life of me, I couldn't think of any, apart from C.S. Lewis' Narnia series, the books of Québécoise children's science-fiction writer Suzanne Martel, and Madeleine L'Engle's A Whisper in Time. I said that they were important to me--I'd read them all in Grade 6--because they showed how an ordinary world could become fractured, could undergo a radical transformation to become something entirely unexpected.
