Well how about it, here is my reading list for my World Literature class:
Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer
Staying On - Paul Scott
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Interpreter of Maladies - Jumpa Lahiri
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Conservationist - Nadine Gordimer
Disgrace - J.M Coetzee
The Harfish - Naguib Mahfouz
Waiting - Ha Jin
I'm not complaining, I'm actually looking forward to the reading, but not the research paper.
CJ at 8/24/2004
Comments:
Does Dr. S require a research paper now?! Or is it still her "standard" of three critical analysis papers and a couple of in-class exams? Tell me she hasn't been swayed by the "eight-to-ten pages with outside sources" faculty! I like her little papers. Small, and all from inside one's own head...
Hmmm, doesn't the title of Achebe's book come from Yeats? ("The Second Coming") Maybe there's an easy (if perhaps unoriginal but still interesting?) paper right there.
This is a very different book list than the one Dr. di. used two years ago. We (I say "we," but I dropped the class) read...
Perfume (Suskind),
The White Hotel (Thomas),
So Far from God (Castillo - I think you'd really like this; and, no, not because of the tortilla part of your sandwich, although that might not hurt),
Like Water for Chocolate (Esquivel),
Ironweed (Kennedy),
The Nose (Gogol),
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez),
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Kundera),
Midnight's Children (Rushdie),
The Kingdom of this World (Carpentier),
and The Metamorphosis (Kafka)
I think that's it, but - knowing Dr. di. - that may just be a small portion. ;) I hope you'll blog about some of your reading and class experiences. Come, come to the dark side of unthematic, wayward blogging! *duck*
I'll have to look at the syllabus again, but I'm pretty certain there is a research paper, along with the other critical analysis papers, but hey I have been wrong before, especially when too much caffeine is involved.
I like your reading list better. :P I would have preferred writers from South America, but hey maybe I need this experience. I need to step outside of the adobe box for a moment and discover other cultures. I'm all for it! Don't worry I will try my hardest to explain what I am reading about.
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