History of Love was published in 2005 and is the most recent novel we will be reading. It is also the most popular book we will be reading, as in…
In these videos, I very briefly refer to See Under:Love, the dark specter of my summer course. Please ignore this reference, don’t panic, there is not some book waiting for you to…
Note: Ignore my mistake that this is the 3rd lecture! It is obviously our fourth amazing journey. Cynthia Ozick’s Messiah of Stockholm is the first book we will be reading that…
Project Two In this paper, you will be building on your close reading analysis by “putting it in conversation” with one literary scholarly article. I have provided a number of…
Rough Draft due for Peer Review: Thursday, September 18th Final Draft Due: Tuesday, September 23rd Assignment #1: Close Reading Analysis (4-5 pages); In this short paper, you will examine a…
In the class description lecture, I disclosed the story of Bruno Schulz’s tragic murder at the hands of a Gestapo officer, the secret police of Nazi Germany, when Drohobycz was…
So, what did you have to say? Every week I will feature some quick hits from a few blogs just so we can have a snapshot of viewpoints! Alissa: So for…
FUN (AND CREEPY) BONUS MATERIAL: As Idan Yaron and Omri Herzog point out, Metamorphosis (published 1915) is a canonical text that, in its fragmentary and fragile structure, has the power “to stir…
Welcome to Intro to Fiction! Below are three short videos introducing you to the course. By Sunday, I’d like to see you upload a short introduction video of yourself on…