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Narrative
Pirouettes – Six Literary Nites
2010-11
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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.
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November 2
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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
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December
7
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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.
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January 11
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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.
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April
5
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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.
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May
3
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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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Narrative Pirouettes – Six Literary
Evenings
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
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