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Course Texts & Reading Assignments
The date preceding each text is the deadline for submitting that
week's assignment (observations, discussion questions, quotations with
commentaries--minimum of three single-spaced pages delivered via e-mail to nordquist@mail.com).
28 May 2001
Ed. by Laura Miller, with Adam Begley
The
Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors
(Penguin, 2000)
[This text, which should be read before the start of the course, is designed to give
students an overview of more than 200 of "the most fascinating writers of our
times." No assignment is required.]
4 June 2001
Toni Morrison
Sula
(1973)
NOTES ON SULA
Additional commentaries on Sula
11 June 2001
Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
(1980)
NOTES ON Midnight's Children
Additional commentaries on Midnight's
Children
18 June 2001
Chinua Achebe
Things
Fall Apart (1958)
NOTES on Things Fall Apart
Additional commentaries on Things
Fall Apart
25 June 2001
Ed. by Daniel Halpern
The Art of the
Story (Aidoo through Hannah, pp. 1-315)
(Penguin, 1999)
Notes on selected authors.
2 July 2001
Don DeLillo
Libra
(1988)
NOTES on Libra
Additional commentaries on Libra
9 July 2001
Ernest Gaines
A
Lesson Before Dying (1993)
Notes on A Lesson.
Additional commentaries on A
Lesson.
16 July 2001 (postponed)
Louise Erdrich
Love
Medicine (1984)
23 July 2001
Ed. by Daniel Halpern
The Art of the
Story (Hoeg through Yoshimoto, pp. 316-655)
(Penguin, 1999)
Notes on (additional) selected
authors
30 July 2001
Gabriel García Márquez
One
Hundred Years of Solitude
(1967)
Notes on One Hundred Years of
Solitude
Additional commentaries on One
Hundred Years
7 August 2001
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