Narrative Pirouettes – Six Literary Nites |
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| September 28
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Garry
Leonard: The Lure of Narration – Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano:
Introduction to Narrative Theory Readings: Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"; James Joyce, "Clay"; Virginia Woolf, "The New Dress"; Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Eephants" and "The Killers"; F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Babylon Revisited"; J.D. Salinger, "A Perfect Day for a Bananafish"; Katherine Mansfield, "The Fly." Garry Leonard, Professor of English at U of T, is widely published on James Joyce, Comp Lit, and Cultural Studies. His current project is Making it Now: Modernism, Modernity and Cinema. He has also written a novel entitled Proxy. |
| November 2 |
Garry Leonard: To Be is To Be Seen: The
Narrative Construction of a Modern Self in Paul Auster's Invisible Text: Paul Auster, Invisible; Supplementary Film: Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo |
| December
7 |
Sarah Wilson: Narrative Dynamite:
Representing Immigration in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Aleksandar
Hemon’s The Lazarus Project Texts: Philip Roth, American Pastoral; Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project Sarah Wilson is Assistant Professor of English at UofT, specializing in American Literature. Her forthcoming book, Melting-Pot Modernism, explores the connections between modernist literary experimentation and ideas of immigrant assimilation. |
| January 11 |
Michael Redhill: The Endless Mirror – Self as Character Texts: Michael Redhill, Goodness; Michael Redhill, Consolation Michael Redhill is a novelist, poet, and playwright. His most recent novel, Consolation, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. |
| April 5 |
Craig Patterson: The Good Soldier – Slides, Shifts,
and About Face in the "saddest story I have ever heard"
Craig Patterson is Professor of English in the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Humber College and a member of the Editing Faculty at the Humber School for Writers. His publications have focused on crime and narrative in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. |
| May 3 |
Melba Cuddy-Keane: J. M. Coetzee's
Summertime: Pirouettes Outside the Self Texts: J.M Coetzee, Summertime; Related Readings TBA Melba Cuddy-Keane is Professor of English, a Northrop Frye Scholar, and a member of the Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture at U of T. Her recent publications include Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere and the Harcourt annotated edition of Woolf’s Between the Acts. |
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Opening Nite:
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Garry Leonard on
"The Lure of Narration – Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano": Introduction to Narrative Theory
Readings and their Links or pdf files:
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart": pdf
James Joyce, "Clay": pdf
Virginia Woolf, "The New Dress": pdf
Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Eephants": Link
and "The Killers": Link
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Babylon Revisited": pdf
J.D. Salinger, "A Perfect Day for a Bananafish": pdf
Katherine Mansfield, "The Fly": pdf
Stay tuned for more links!
Two links to enrich your reading on our theme of "Narrative Pirouettes":
On Point of View: Link
On Narrrative Theory: Link
AND . . . keeping last season's readings in mind:
Here is a NY Times review of our own Karen Connelly's Burmese Lessons: pdf
And a NY Times review of a book on Tolstoy's Wife Sophia. It references "our" Kreutzer Sonata! pdf
