21L.003-1 | Spring 2007 | Undergraduate

Reading Fiction: Dysfunctional Families

Readings

Required Texts

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (1818). New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN: 9780141439471. The e-text and audio book are available at Project Gutenberg.

Hawthorn, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter (1850). New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2002. ISBN: 9780142437261. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg.

Forster, E. M. Howard’s End (1910). New York, NY: Penguin Modern Classics, 2000. ISBN: 9780141183350. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg.

Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse (1927). New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1989. ISBN: 9780156907392. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg of Australia.

Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying (1930). New York, NY: Vintage, 1991. ISBN: 9780679732259.

Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953). New York, NY: Penguin Modern Classics, 2001. ISBN: 9780141185910.

O’Connor, Flannery. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1955). New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1977. ISBN: 9780156364652.

Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban (1992). New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1993. ISBN: 9780345381439.

Morrison, Toni. Jazz (1992). New York, NY: Vintage, 2004. ISBN: 9781400076215.

Roy, Arundhati. God of Small Things (1997). New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1998. ISBN: 9780060977498.

Readings by Session

SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction (no readings)
2 Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina (1877). Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2003, chapter 1. ISBN: 9780140449174. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg.
3 Mary Shelley Frankenstein, vols. 1-2.
4 Frankenstein, vol. 3.
5 Edgar Allan Poe Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Fall of the House of Usher.” In The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (1839). Edited by Stephen Marlowe. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 1998. ISBN: 9780451526755. Both the e-text and audio book are available at Project Gutenberg.
6 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, “Custom House.” - chapter 9.
7 The Scarlet Letter, chapters 10-end.
8 Workshop: Crafting an argument (no readings)
9 E. M. Forster Howard’s End, chapters 1-16.
10 Howard’s End, chapters 17-end.
11 D. H. Lawrence Lawrence, D. H. Rocking Horse Winner (1926). Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 9781419180835.
12 Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse, “The Window,” and “Time Passes.”
13 To the Lighthouse, “The Lighthouse.”
14 William Faulkner As I Lay Dying, pp. 1-140.
15 As I Lay Dying, pp. 141-end.
16 James Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain, pp. 1-128.
17 Go Tell it on the Mountain, pp. 129-end.
18

Carson McCullers

Workshop: Revising a paper

McCullers, Carson. “A Domestic Dilemma.” In Collected Stories of Carson McCullers (1951). New York, NY: Mariner Books, 1998. ISBN: 9780395925058.
19 Flannery O’Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find, “A Good Man,” and “The Life You Save.”
20 A Good Man is Hard to Find, “Good Country People.”
21 Cristina Garcia Dreaming in Cuban, pp. 1-126.
22 Dreaming in Cuban, pp. 127-end.
23 Toni Morrison Jazz, pp. 1-87.
24 Jazz, pp. 89-end.
25 Arundhati Roy God of Small Things, chapters 1-7.
26 God of Small Things, chapters 8-end.

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