How to Create Your Personal Literary Canon (Deep-Reading Assignment)

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📔Contents Page: https://cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
🎖️ War and Peace: https://cutt.ly/U3nzGma
🎭 Shakespeare Project: https://cutt.ly/B3nxHH7
🐳 Moby Dick: https://cutt.ly/K3nzVKf
☄️ Blood Meridian: https://cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp
🍂 Wuthering Heights: https://cutt.ly/N3nxxYt
🇮🇪 Ulysses: https://cutt.ly/x3nxQmN
🚂 Anna Karenina: https://cutt.ly/vmNhAWv
💀 Crime and Punishment: https://cutt.ly/rmNhFt5
⚓ Persuasion: https://cutt.ly/amNhX7b
☕ In Search of Lost Time: https://cutt.ly/5mNh8oD
⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: https://cutt.ly/UmNjrE3
🌸 Siddharta: https://cutt.ly/YmNjuzi
🎠 Don Quixote: https://cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: https://cutt.ly/nmNlW7V
🇫🇷 Les Misérables: https://cutt.ly/J3YixoA
🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: https://cutt.ly/nToAQQ3
🖋️ Dickens Seasonal Read: https://cutt.ly/9ToAybt
📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: https://tinyurl.com/45rv965c
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0:00 Kurt Vonnegut's short story reading assignment
3:15 ranking all of Shakespeare, Dickens & Austen
3:50 mindsets for a rewarding reading programme
4:30 what is the literary canon?
6:45 Virginia Woolf's advice to readers
7:20 evaluating the psychic residue after reading
7:40 understanding the universal in the individual
8:20 discovering favourites outside the canon
9:10 the power of allegory, metaphor & microcosm
10:40 why rank and review your books?
11:05 how you see is who you are
12:50 see characters as a reflection of you
14:00 the highest compliment you can pay a writer
14:30 the value of rereading
16:07 the difficulty of choosing favourites
16:45 character and narrative
17:00 how to rank your books
17:15 allegory/vision vs realism
18:00 aesthetic and cognitive challenges
19:00 your bookshelf as physicalisation of soul
20:00 my intimate bookshelf
21:00 reading a writer chronologically
21:40 finding who your loves loved
22:00 McCarthy, Melville, Shakespeare
23:00 art's liberating subjectivity
23:30 principles for deep-reading
25:00 momento mori
25:30 the power of book reviews
26:15 the importance of reading
26:45 who is in your personal canon?

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