Jan 12  INTRODUCTION: Retelling the story
(Special bonus: the mid-1950s)

17  Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

19  Lolita 

24  Lolita (finish)

26  Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping 

31  Housekeeping (finish)
ESSAY #1 DUE

Feb 2  Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

7  The Satanic Verses

9  The Satanic Verses 

14  The Satanic Verses

16  The Satanic Verses (finish) 

21  David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

23  Cloud Atlas 

28  Cloud Atlas

Mar 2  Cloud Atlas 

7  Cloud Atlas (finish)

9 No new reading
EASY IN-CLASS MIDTERM EXAM

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21  John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

23  The French Lieutenant’s Woman 

28  The French Lieutenant’s Woman
EVENING SCREENING OF FILM

30  The French Lieutenant’s Woman 

Apr 4  No class

6  Grace Paley, Complete Stories 

11  Complete Stories

13  Annie Proulx, “Brokeback Mountain,” story and film 

18  Donald Barthelme, Snow White

20  Snow White 

25  Chris Ware, Jimmie Corrigan
 

27  Jimmie Corrigan 
ESSAY #2 DUE

May 2  Presentations by graduate students

4  Presentations by graduate students