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by ivanilyich
Sun May 05, 2019 5:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: UPDATE - All the Lit We Cannot See (2020)
Replies: 10
Views: 4203

Re: Announcement - All the Lit We Cannot See (Winter 2019)

What's the thinking behind giving poetry since 1950 the same space as long fiction since 1950? My guess is that there's 100x an audience for long fiction than poetry written in this period. That’s part of the reason for it - I’m focusing on underrepresented content, and contemporary poetry is very ...
by ivanilyich
Sun May 05, 2019 5:40 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: UPDATE - All the Lit We Cannot See (2020)
Replies: 10
Views: 4203

Re: Announcement - All the Lit We Cannot See (Winter 2019)

justinfrench1728 wrote: Sun May 05, 2019 2:42 pm
ivanilyich wrote: Sun May 05, 2019 5:17 am 2.5 Brit / 3 Anglo / 2.5 Euro / 2 World.
what is anglo?
Literature from Anglophone countries - in practice, this will be mostly American, with some Canadian, Australian, Irish, etc. Anglophone non-Western countries will generally go in World.
by ivanilyich
Sun May 05, 2019 5:17 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: UPDATE - All the Lit We Cannot See (2020)
Replies: 10
Views: 4203

UPDATE - All the Lit We Cannot See (2020)

UPDATE: Have come back to this tournament after being overwhelmed with work stuff and I've decided to rethink it - the contemporary questions & ideas were turning out substantially better than anything else, so I'm going to change the tournament format. All questions will be on literature 1900-p...
by ivanilyich
Sat Feb 02, 2019 7:23 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 43
Views: 20643

Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion

An entirely frivolous comment: I thought the literature distro was great (though that 'darkling' tossup sounded dubious, particularly since it was begging you to neg with 'Dover' in the first line which mentioned 'Dover Beach'). I have but one frivolous gripe: Basically, it is a slight running joke ...
by ivanilyich
Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:06 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 65
Views: 8181

Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion

-'The Trials of Arabella' is a bit memey for Atonement , but it's probably fine. What does this mean? It means that the clue is often used, and that particular little bit of the novel has become somewhat 'iconic', finding its way into a majority of Atonement tossups, and becoming known by people wh...
by ivanilyich
Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:28 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 65
Views: 8181

Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion

Hi, I played Spartan at the weekend and I thought I'd give some commentary on the literature questions (which I found to be mostly good, and one of the most well-done distros of the tournament). Note: I'm a literature student and specialist, but also a relatively new player, so my apprehension of th...