Something new for this Summer. I've compiled a list of articles/entries, where available from Wikipedia, related to the authors and books we'll be reading. Also included are some articles on relevant literary/arts periods and movements. Not required reading for class, but a common reference for our discussions.
Click for the PDF coursebook (approx. 97 pages):
Here's a list of 100 greatest novels that's been floating around awhile. If you're in the need for some reading, it's worth a review to make a selection.
For those of you still pondering Cloud Atlas, here are two links which I've found especially helpful in approaching and/or reviewing Mitchell's novel:
Tabby’s name stood out, as did the creature’s particular daring, and I had the strange sense of already knowing that the poor thing was doomed to a gruesome and shocking end: hunted and murdered by a pack of wild cats, some pages later—by which time I was marvelling both at the various peculiarities of the book and at my unsettling ability to forget them.
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.