Subject: RE: Literary Reading Suggestions
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:34:51 -0000


What about some David Leavitt, for some gay family sagas?

Dave

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Sent: 13 February 2003 17:44
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Subject: Literary Reading Suggestions


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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