Discussion Topics: Section 6/4 (Optional)

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Please post a question or area of interest for discussion on 6/4 here by Wednesday @ 6 pm. We'll be covering the rest of Twain's No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger and Poe's "Mellonata Tauta." Feel free to pose questions/areas of inquiry around one or several of the texts, in relation to larger class themes, or in response to each others' posts.

Discussion Topics: Section 5/27

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Please post a question or area of interest for discussion on 5/27 here by Wednesday @ 6 pm. Texts we'll potentially cover for section include: excerpts from Gilman's Herland, Twain's No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger (up to Chapter 8), and Poe's "Mellonta Tauta." We can also discuss any remaining questions about Wharton's House of Mirth and/or the film version. Feel free to pose questions/areas of inquiry around one or several of the texts, in relation to larger class themes, or in response to each others' posts.

Discussion Topics: Section 5/20

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Please post a question or area of interest for discussion on 5/20 here by Wednesday @ 6 pm. Texts we'll potentially cover for section include: Chacon's Calm After the Storm, Chopin's "La Belle Zoraide," and Sollors and Shell's "Introduction;" we'll also begin to discuss Wharton's House of Mirth. Feel free to pose questions/areas of inquiry around one or several of the texts, in relation to larger class themes, or in response to each others' posts.

Discussion Topics: Section 5/13

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Please post a question or area of interest for discussion on 5/13 here by Wednesday @ 6 pm. Texts we'll potentially cover for section include: Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivner," Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter" and "The Birth Mark," Chacon's Calm After the Storm, and Sollors and Shell's "Introduction." Feel free to pose questions/areas of inquiry around one or several of the texts, in relation to larger class themes, or in response to each others' posts.

Edit 5/11: Because of the change in reading schedule (announced today - "La Belle Zoraide" postponed until Friday) we'll save Chopin's "La Belle Zoraide" for next week when we'll also discuss The House of Mirth. Please save any discussion questions about that text for next week's post! Thanks.

new discussion topics on Israel Potter...

...are over at Kirsten's section blog: http://19camlitkirsten.blogspot.com/

Leftover topics from Friday's question sheet include: did Melville himself hate this novel, and if so what does it matter; the sense of closure and alternate endings; the Gothic in Israel Potter; what's an adaptation; the idea of exile in IP; characters as metaphors for nations.