Subject: RE: Literary Reading Suggestions
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:05:32 -0600


These might be among the more obvious, but what about Faulkner's *The Sound
and the Fury* or Morrison's *Song of Solomon*?

-----Original Message-----
From: steve watts
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Sent: 2/13/03 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: Literary Reading Suggestions

McEwan's Atonement springs to mind.

steve watts

--On 13 February 2003 11:43 -0600 "John V. Knapp" 
<tb0jvk1-AT-corn.cso.niu.edu> wrote:

> Hi folks --
>
> For the fall semester, 2003, I am putting together a (brief) reading
list
> for a doctoral-level seminar on family systems psychotherapy (fst) and
> literature here at NIU.  There must now be tens of imaginative works,
both
> modern, contemporary, and earlier, that have had a reading (most of
them
> published) employing fst -- many of them, like Lawrence's *Sons and
> Lovers* or *Hamlet* were obvious choices -- but I am always on the
lookout
> for ones I haven't thought of.
>
> If any of you have suggestions for literary works (novels, short
stories,
> plays, poems) in English that focus on family life or the detailed
> aftermath of characters' family life, please make some suggestions.  I
> would be most grateful.
>
> Cheers,
>
> JVK
>
> John V. Knapp
>
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