The Summer Extension
Metaclass on Metafiction: Summer Extension
Read by July 10th:
Pirandello, Luigi. Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Comedy in the Making. Trans. Edward Storer. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1922. 80 pages.
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Alter, Robert. “The Modernist Revival of Self-Conscious Fiction.” Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre. 1979. 41 pgs. (Literary Criticism)
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Read by July 30th:
Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. New York: Vintage International, 1962. 299 pgs.
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Alter, Robert. “Nabokov’s Game of Worlds.” Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre. 1979. 37 pgs. (Literary Criticism)
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Read by August 6th:
Barth, John. “Lost in the Funhouse.” The Contemporary American Short Story. Ed. B. Minh Nguyen and Porter Shreve. New York: Pearson Longman, 2004. (Copyright 1968) 21 pgs.
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Gass, William H. “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.” American Short Stories Since 1945. Ed. John G. Parks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. (Copyright 1968) 19 pgs.
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Wallace, David Foster. “Octet.” Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. 1999. 30 pgs.
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Alter, Robert. “The Inexhaustible Genre.” Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre. 1979. 264 pgs. (Literary Criticism)
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Read by August 13th:
Coover, Robert. “Seven Exemplary Fictions.” Pricksongs and Descants: Fictions. New York: Grove Press, 1969. 48 pgs. (Which includes: “Dedicatorio y Prologo a don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.”)
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Begin: Scholes, Robert. Fabulation & Metafiction. 1979. 256 pgs. (Literary criticism.)
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Read by August 20th
Green, Geoffrey. Voices in a Mask. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008. 231 pgs.
Description: Short stories composed around the theme of opera, in particular, Don Juan. Readers should play the appropriate operas as they read, timing their readings and “performing” the text.
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Scholes, Robert. Fabulation & Metafiction. 1979. 256 pgs. (Literary criticism.)
Link to Amazon
I joining the Sillybus. I got some of these books from the library and I want to participate. Good job setting this up, Ron. Its very well organized and informative.
Erica Eller
7 Jul 10 at 8:17 pm