Reading Fiction: Dysfunctional Families

Readings

• Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (1818). New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN: 9780141439471. The e-text and audio book are available at Project Gutenberg. ↗
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• Hawthorn, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter (1850). New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2002. ISBN: 9780142437261. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg. ↗
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• Forster, E. M. Howard’s End (1910). New York, NY: Penguin Modern Classics, 2000. ISBN: 9780141183350. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg. ↗
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• Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse (1927). New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1989. ISBN: 9780156907392. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg of Australia. ↗
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• Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying (1930). New York, NY: Vintage, 1991. ISBN: 9780679732259.
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• Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953). New York, NY: Penguin Modern Classics, 2001. ISBN: 9780141185910.
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• O’Connor, Flannery. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1955). New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1977. ISBN: 9780156364652.
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• Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban (1992). New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1993. ISBN: 9780345381439.
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• Morrison, Toni. Jazz (1992). New York, NY: Vintage, 2004. ISBN: 9781400076215.
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• Roy, Arundhati. God of Small Things (1997). New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1998. ISBN: 9780060977498.
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• SES #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction · READINGS: (no readings)
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• SES #: 2 · TOPICS: Leo Tolstoy · READINGS: 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. ↗
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• SES #: 3 · TOPICS: Mary Shelley · READINGS: Frankenstein , vols. 1-2.
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• SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Edgar Allan Poe · READINGS: 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. ↗
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• SES #: 6 · TOPICS: Nathaniel Hawthorne · READINGS: The Scarlet Letter , “Custom House.” - chapter 9.
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• SES #: 8 · TOPICS: Workshop: Crafting an argument · READINGS: (no readings)
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• SES #: 9 · TOPICS: E. M. Forster · READINGS: Howard’s End , chapters 1-16.
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• SES #: 11 · TOPICS: D. H. Lawrence · READINGS: Lawrence, D. H. Rocking Horse Winner (1926). Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 9781419180835.
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• SES #: 12 · TOPICS: Virginia Woolf · READINGS: To the Lighthouse , “The Window,” and “Time Passes.”
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• SES #: 14 · TOPICS: William Faulkner · READINGS: As I Lay Dying , pp. 1-140.
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• SES #: 16 · TOPICS: James Baldwin · READINGS: Go Tell it on the Mountain , pp. 1-128.
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• McCullers, Carson. “A Domestic Dilemma.” In Collected Stories of Carson McCullers (1951). New York, NY: Mariner Books, 1998. ISBN: 9780395925058.
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• SES #: 19 · TOPICS: Flannery O’Connor · READINGS: A Good Man is Hard to Find , “A Good Man,” and “The Life You Save.”
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• SES #: 21 · TOPICS: Cristina Garcia · READINGS: Dreaming in Cuban , pp. 1-126.
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• SES #: 23 · TOPICS: Toni Morrison · READINGS: Jazz , pp. 1-87.
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• SES #: 25 · TOPICS: Arundhati Roy · READINGS: God of Small Things , chapters 1-7.
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