English 280: Modern British Literature
Reaction Paper Schedule
Fall 2005
Please select a story, play, or poem below that you will use as the basis for your "reaction paper" (see Reaction Paper assignment). On the day of your reaction paper presentation, come to class prepared to begin discussion of the work in question by presenting your "reaction" orally to the class. After your presentation, you must also hand a 2-3 page (double-spaced) reaction paper in to me as well. If you would like to reserve a work via e-mail, please select the one you want and e-mail me to reserve it. Please look at the selection you are choosing carefully before you sign up to make sure you are comfortable presenting it in front of the group.
Monday, September 19
James Joyce, "Araby" --
James Joyce, "Eveline" -- Becca Wilson
James Joyce, "Clay" --
Wednesday, September 21
James Joyce, "The Dead" -- Kelly Cochran
Friday, September 30
T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" -- Christine Dougherty
T. S. Eliot, "Gerontion" --
Monday, October 3
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land -- Will Winner
Wednesday, October 5
T. S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton" --
Friday, October 7
Virginia Woolf, Excerpt from A Room of One's Own -- Annie Berger
Wednesday, October 12
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway -- Laura Householder
Wednesday, October 19
D. H. Lawrence, "The Odour of Chrysanthemums" -- Marlee Sayen
Friday, October 21
Poetry: Dylan Thomas --
Poetry: W. H. Auden --
Monday, October 24
Poetry: Stevie Smith
Poetry: Philip Larkin
Wednesday, October 26
Graham Greene, "A Chance for Mr. Lever" -- Betty Kirwin
George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" -- Elle Fure
Friday, October 28
Evelyn Waugh, "The Man Who Liked Dickens"
Monty Python, "Travel Agent" -- Paul Gorman
Monday, October 31
E. M. Forster, "The Life to Come" -- Julia Sargeaunt
Drama: Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine -- Megan Waligura
Friday, November 4
Angela Carter, "Flesh and the Mirror" -- Jamie D'Orso
Ian McEwan, "Psychopolis" --
Monday, November 7
Salman Rushdie, "The Prophet's Hair" -- Brad Bisignano
Salman Rushdie, "Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella" -- Christy Langston
Wednesday, November 9
Poetry: Seamus Heaney -- Phil North
Poetry: Paul Muldoon --
Friday, November 11
Poetry: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill --
Poetry: Eavan Boland --
Monday, November 14
Kazuo Ishiguro, "A Family Supper" -- Emily Johnson
James Kelman, "Home for a Couple of Days" -- Chuck Paindiris
Wednesday, November 16
Nadine Gordimer, "What Were You Dreaming?" -- Emily Petrack
Poetry: Derek Walcott --
Friday, November 18
Samuel Beckett, "Ping" --
Drama: Krapp's Last Tape --
Monday, November 21
B. S. Johnson, "A Few Selected Sentences" --
Adam Mars-Jones, "Structural Anthropology" --
Monday, November 28
Poetry: Sylvia Plath -- Shelley Wang
Poetry: Ted Hughes --
Wednesday, November 30
Fay Weldon, "Weekend" -- Maggie Williamson
Emma Tennant, "Philomela" -- Lauren Litts
Friday, December 2
Angela Carter, "The Tiger's Bride" -- Dina Apostolou
Angela Carter, "The Company of Wolves" -- Matt Horowitz
Monday, December 6
J. G. Ballard, "Memories of the Space Age" --