Readings

Only three of the readings this semester will come from purchased books. The rest will be e-texts that you can download from Google Drive. Check the calendar for chapter/page numbers to read for each class meeting. Additional reading assignments will be provided as needed. All literary reading will be the basis for reading notes and engaging class discussions. For quote responses, students will look up scholarly articles that discuss topics of interest related to the literature.

E-texts are available here. You download the Google Document as a PDF to print if you'd like, or you can download the ".epub" version to read on your tablet of smart phone (I recommend the Google Book app, if you have Android). I will need your Gmail address to give you access to the e-texts.

Featured authors:

The following books are available in the UNG Oconee Library.

Booth, Wayne. The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction. Berkley: University of California Press, 1988.

Chatman, Seymour Benjamin. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978.

Daiches, David. The Novel and the Modern World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.

Davis, Todd F. and Kenneth Womack, eds. Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001.

Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1954.

Frank, Joseph. The Idea of Spatial Form. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

Fuller, Edmund. Man in Modern Fiction: Some Minority Opinions on Contemporary American Writing. New York: Random House, 1958.

Gardner, John. On Moral Fiction. New York: Basic Books, 1978.

Hoffman, Michael J. and Patrick D. Murphy, eds. Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. 3rd Ed. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

Levenson, Michael H. Modernism and the Fate of Individuality: Character and Novelistic Form from Conrad to Woolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Lewis, C. S. An Experiment in Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961.

Miller, J. Hillis. The Ethics of Reading. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

O’Connor, Flannery. Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose. Eds. Sally Fitzgerald and Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.

Phelan, James. Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.

Phelan, James. Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996.

Phelan, James, ed. Reading Narrative: Form, Ethics, Ideology. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989.

Scholes, Robert and Robert Kellogg. The Nature of Narrative. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Labels:
Print this page