Brilliant Minds

Fall 2013 Brilliant Minds preview

The books on our reading list for Fall 2013 are:

The Epic of Gilgamesh; Book of Job; Ovid's Metamorphoses; Murasaki's Tale of Genji; Shakespeare's Richard III; Austen's Emma; Poe's Tales; Woolf's To The Lighthouse; Achebe's Things Fall Apart; and Saramago's Blindness. Recommended editions to be announced.

Lyrical Ballads selections

For our discussion of Lyrical Ballads (1798 edition) by Wordsworth & Coleridge, the two must read poems are:

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Lines Written A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey".

Other poems to consider are: 

• "Goody Blake and Harry Gill"
• "Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman"
• "We Are Seven"
• "The Thorn"
• "The Idiot Boy"
• "Expostulation and Reply"
• "The Tables Turned"

 Also, I strongly suggest you read the "Preface" to the expanded 1800 and 1802 editions of Lyrical Ballads, which you can find here below:

Preface to Lyrical Ballads 1800

Preface to Lyrical Ballads 1802

I mentioned Renata Adler's use of the "Ancient Mariner" in her novel Pitch Dark. Here's a link to the reissue of the novel at Amazon: Pitch Dark (NYRB Classics)

 

Preview for Summer 2013

Here is a preview of the book selections for Literature for the 21st Century, Summer 2013:

Alice Munro, Dear Life; Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies; Louise Erdrich, The Round House; Joydeep Roy-Battacharya, The Watch; Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King; Bernardo Atxaga, Seven Houses in France; Mo Yan,Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

Spring 2013 Schedule

Here's our Reading Schedule for Pring 2013: see page 2 of linked PDF file.

Download BMinds_Spring2013syllabus

Fall Syllabus

Click below for a PDF downloadable file of the Fall syllabus with Reading list and Schedule, see page 2 for dates of readings for both Section 1 & 2. 

Download BMinds_Fall2012syllabus

Lit 21 Reading Schedule

Here is our reading schedule for the next few weeks:

Sec. 1, Sec. 2

6/5, 7    Introduction to postmodernism & contemporary literature

6/12, 14    Julian Barnes, The Sense of An Ending (Knopf) 

6/19, 21    Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmerelda (Scribner) 

6/26, 28    Tomas Transtromer, The Deleted World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 

7/3, 5    Tea Obreht, The Tiger's Wife (Random House) 

7/10, 12    Arthur Phillips, The Tragedy of Arthur (Random House) 

7/17, 19    David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Random House) 

7/24, 26    Magdalena Tulli, In Red (Archipelago Books) 

Trilling on Forster

As mentioned in class, this is the work by Lionel Trilling on E. M. Forster, with a chapter on A Passage to India, and Forster's own Commonplace Book.

 

Summer Session

The Summer Session course description for Literature for the 21st Century with correct book list is now up on the NYU website: 

http://www.scps.nyu.edu/course-detail/LITR1-CE9054/20122/literature-for-the-21st-century

Reading List Downloads

Here are Spring 2011 Brilliant Minds Reading Lists for NYU Students in PDF format for download:

Section 1:  Download BMS2011_List1

Section 2:  Download BMS2011_List2

Syllabi for Brilliant Minds at NYU

Welcome & welcome back! Our reading list with editions and schedules for both sections are here. Just click the link for your section:

Section 1 (Tuesday mornings): Download BM1_Syllabus_F10_s1

Section 2 (Wednesday evenings): Download BM1_Syllabus_F10_s2