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[proximoception]

Hypothetical 101 class reading list:

King Lear

"The Triumph of Life"

Moral Essays

"My Kinsman, Major Molineux"
"Young Goodman Brown"

"The City of Dreadful Night"

The Mysterious Stranger

The Kreutzer Sonata

Jude the Obscure

Heart of Darkness

The Trial
"In the Penal Colony"

Miss Lonelyhearts

"The Lost Ones"

Blood Meridian
Sunset Limited

Can't think of any female writers who'd fit--maybe careful selections of Dickinson and Gluck poems in a course pack?

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A Few Suggestions

[princenarcissus.livejournal.com]

Not just a random list of favorites . . . trying to choose specific writers and works that might fit some of the preoccupations and themes in the works you listed. Could name many others, these are just off the top of the my head . . .

George Eliot: Middlemarch or The Lifted Veil
Emily Dickinson: many, many poems would work well
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Kate Chopin: The Awakening, "The Storm", or "Desiree's Baby"
Anna Akhmatova: Requiem
Gertrude Stein: Three Lives
Marianne Moore: "Marriage"
H.D.: The Walls Do Not Fall
Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room or Mrs. Dalloway
Willa Cather: A Lost Lady
Djuna Barnes: Nightwood
Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness
Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God or "Sweat"
Nella Larsen: Quicksand or Passing
Marguerite Yourcenar: Coup de Grace or The Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Duras: The Lover
Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter or The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Iris Murdoch: The Bell
Doris Lessing: "To Room 19" or The Fifth Child
Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon, Sula, or Beloved
Jane Smiley: A Thousand Acres
Jeanette Winterson: Art & Lies
Anne Carson: anything and everything

And while I'll have to look up specific short stories, there are plenty of great stories by Colette, Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys, Flannery O'Connor, Angela Carter, Grace Paley, and Lydia Davis that would work well with the other works you've chosen.

Re: A Few Suggestions

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooo (great to see you're around again)! The list is for a horrible, horrible joke class--Eng 101: Reasons to Kill Self Promptly!

Though come to think of it "Requiem" might fit..."Wallpaper," carefully edited. Maybe the Septimus parts of Dalloway, sans Clarissa explaining why his death was a sort of affirmation. Carson's pain writings make pain seem too fascinating--you'd stick around to suffer so meaningfully. The Lifted Veil one would have to explain carefully...maybe by the end of the course the survivors would be able to interpret his curse as knowledge, then relate that to the course itself, then Kleist-pact out of the final exam.

Always meant to read Yourcenar, and at least one Murdoch--that the best?