5/9/2023 0 Comments Akata witch seriesA great many Chinese and Japanese authors were thrown in our direction, along with a healthy serving of Eastern European and South American authors (Wislawa Szymborska and Octavio Paz were my personal revelations during this time). There was a much wider world of reading, they believed, and they ensured that our horizons were broadened. Most of us had already read many of the classic Greek and Roman material (if one hadn’t read Homer, at the very least, then it was almost impossible to get into the program), and many of us had read The Arabian Nights or were in the process of reading it.We were also very familiar with many Philippine and Western classics, and some (such as myself) were already certain which genres we were going to focus on.īut this was not enough to our professors. They made and encouraged us to read as many literary classics and award-winners as we could, to explore as many genres as we dared, and if we chose, to pick a handful we would specialize in so we could go into more in-depth reading. When I was an undergraduate, our professors were very determined to make sure that us students had as well-rounded a reading background as possible.
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