Subject: RE: Literary Reading Suggestions Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:21:00 -0600 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Donna Tartt's The Little Friend (2002) might prove a good candidate. Nancy Nield Buchwald PhD Candidate Art History Department University of Chicago nanield-AT-midway.uchicago.edu -----Original Message----- From: owner-modernism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu [mailto:owner-modernism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu] On Behalf Of steve watts Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 12:31 PM To: modernism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu 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 > > Professor, Dept. of English; > Editorial Board, *Style;* tb0jvk1-AT-corn.cso.niu.edu > Northern Illinois University http://www.niu.edu/english/jvk/knapp.htm > 330 Reavis Hall Office Phone: (815) 753-6632 > Dekalb 60115 USA > > To depreciate a Book maliciously, or even wantonly, is > at least a very ill-natured office; and a morose snarling > Critic may, I believe, be suspected to be a bad Man. > Henry Fielding, *Tom Jones.* >
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Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend (2002) might prove a good candidate.
Nancy Nield Buchwald
PhD Candidate
Art History Department
University of Chicago
nanield-AT-midway.uchicago.edu
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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
>
> Professor, Dept. of English;
> Editorial Board, *Style;* tb0jvk1-AT-corn.cso.niu.edu
> Northern Illinois University http://www.niu.edu/english/jvk/knapp.htm
> 330 Reavis Hall Office Phone: (815) 753-6632
> Dekalb 60115 USA
>
> To depreciate a Book maliciously, or even wantonly, is
> at least a very ill-natured office; and a morose snarling
> Critic may, I believe, be suspected to be a bad Man.
> Henry Fielding, *Tom Jones.*
>