ENGLISH 398 - MODERN FICTION II
CLASS SCHEDULE

Mares - Fletcher 313-x6238
Office Hours:W 3-4, R 4:15-5:15 (and by appointment)
Papers due: 2/23 and 4/9; portfolio due 4/21.
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WEEK ONE - JANUARY

12 - Introduction
John Lye's "Some Cultural Forces Influencing Modernism" and "Some Attributes of Modernist Literature";
D.H. Lawrence biographical sketch
14 - D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1913)
Lawrence
Lawrence Links
Lawrence - Nottingham
Eastwood and Lawrence

WEEK TWO

19 - Lawrence---------------------------->Commentaries due in class
21 - Lawrence

WEEK THREE

26 - Lawrence ---------------------------->Commentaries due in class
28 - James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Great Joyce site
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (R. Kershner’s site)

WEEK FOUR - FEBRUARY

2 - Joyce ---------------------------->Commentaries due in class
4 - Joyce

WEEK FIVE

9 - Joyce---------------------------->Commentaries due in clas

"The Fisherman and His Wife" - Fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

Woolf Web VW Links Virginia Woolf Seminar (Rose Norman's)

11 - Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)

WEEK SIX

16 - Woolf ---------------------------->Commentaries due in class
18 - Woolf

WEEK SEVEN

23 - Woolf------------------------------------------>Commentaries due in class
25 - Doris Lessing, Martha Quest (1952)
Lessing Retrospective
Similarities Between Woolf and Lessing (article by Lynda Scott)
Zimbabwe Reference Page

[Feb. 26--------> 5-7pp. PAPER DUE] [For possible topics, click here.]

Spring Break     Feb. 27- March 7

WEEK EIGHT - MARCH

8 - Lessing– AUDIOFILES at Bliss of the Big City
(This link will take you first to the New York Times online registration page. It's free, though, and it's easy to register.)

10 - Lessing---------------------------->Commentaries due in class

WEEK NINE

15 - Share comments on papers. Finish Lessing discussion.

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1959)------->Commentaries due in class
Achebe: An Overview
Internet Resources: Achebe & Things Fall Apart
17 - Achebe

WEEK TEN

22 - Achebe------------------------------>Commentaries due in class
24 - Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

WEEK ELEVEN

29 - Rhys-------------->Commentaries due in class
31 - Rhys

WEEK TWELVE -APRIL

5 - Bapsi Sidhwa, Cracking India (1988) -------------->Commentaries due in class
Sidhwa at Emory
Pakistan
Pakistan Virtual Library
(+ Schedule viewing of Deepha Mehta's Earth 1947 - film version of Sidhwa's novel)
7 - Sidhwa

[APRIL 9-------------------> 8-10 pp. PAPER DUE]

WEEK THIRTEEN

12 - Sidhwa-------------->Commentaries due in class
14 - Sidhwa

FINAL WEEK

19 - William Trevor, Ireland: Selected Stories (1998): "The Ballroom of Romance"; "The Distant Past"; An Evening with John Joe Dempsey"; "Beyond the Pale"
BBC Author Profile: William Trevor
Trevor on British Council Contemporary Writers Site
-------------->Commentaries due in class
Do evaluations.

21 - Trevor, "The News from Ireland"; "Kathleen's Field"
PORTFOLIOS DUE. Discuss final exam.

CLASSES END = APRIL 22
EXAM PERIOD = APRIL 26 - MAY 1

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