Re: [SPAM] RE: SF in college

[Travis Edmunds]

From: G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [SPAM]  RE: SF in college
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 20:49:13 +0900
Travis Edmunds asked George A:
 
 Next term I'm taking Major American Authors.

 Do you know who you'll be covering?

 -Travis

According to the course syllabus, here is the list with comments by the
instructor (who I've take before, he's excellent):
Robert Frost's Poems, with introduction and commentary by Louis Untermeyer.
(Selections include well-known lyrics such as The Road Not Taken as well
as dramatic narratives such as Home Burial, where meaning and intent of
the poet are less obvious.)
The Awakening, Kate Chopin.  (A pioneering work of feminist literature from
the late nineteenth century, which presents a troubled upper class wife.)
Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain. (Twain's second serious attack on
slavery-written after Huckleberry Finn.  Hilarious and savage, showing
Twain's pessimism toward the end of his life.)
The Big Sea, Langston Hughes. (Autobiographical novel with typical Langston
Hughes' tone and sensitivity.  Hughes' formative years up to about age 38,
including The Harlem Renaissance.)
The Crucible, Arthur Miller.  (Historically faithful to the essence of what
happened in the Salem Witch Trials, 1692, and a symbolic story for the
HUAC/Joseph McCarthy witch-hunting of the 1950's.)
The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks.  (Account of a tragic bus accident 
which
took the lives of fourteen children and how a small town in upper New York
State tried to cope with the disaster. Absorbing but depressing-from a
previous student of English 439.)
Cool. Sounds very interesting.
I know some Twain and Frost, and either haven't heard of, or haven't read 
the others.

One thing though - where's Steinbeck?
-Travis
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Re: [SPAM] RE: SF in college

[G. D. Akin]

Travis Edmunds asked George A:

 
 Next term I'm taking Major American Authors.

 Do you know who you'll be covering?

 -Travis



According to the course syllabus, here is the list with comments by the
instructor (who I've take before, he's excellent):

Robert Frost's Poems, with introduction and commentary by Louis Untermeyer.
(Selections include well-known lyrics such as The Road Not Taken as well
as dramatic narratives such as Home Burial, where meaning and intent of
the poet are less obvious.)

The Awakening, Kate Chopin.  (A pioneering work of feminist literature from
the late nineteenth century, which presents a troubled upper class wife.)

Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain. (Twain's second serious attack on
slavery-written after Huckleberry Finn.  Hilarious and savage, showing
Twain's pessimism toward the end of his life.)

The Big Sea, Langston Hughes. (Autobiographical novel with typical Langston
Hughes' tone and sensitivity.  Hughes' formative years up to about age 38,
including The Harlem Renaissance.)

The Crucible, Arthur Miller.  (Historically faithful to the essence of what
happened in the Salem Witch Trials, 1692, and a symbolic story for the
HUAC/Joseph McCarthy witch-hunting of the 1950's.)

The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks.  (Account of a tragic bus accident which
took the lives of fourteen children and how a small town in upper New York
State tried to cope with the disaster. Absorbing but depressing-from a
previous student of English 439.)

--

George A






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