Story Cycle: Community Imagination and Imaginary Community

聯篇故事與社區想像

Spring, 2007

A Seminar with Prof. Chen Chi-szu
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I. Literary texts

Alexie, Sherman. (1993). The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven. New York:

        Harper Perennial, 1994.

---. (1998). Smoke Signals. Film script with introduction, and notes by Alexie. New York:

Hyperion, 1998.

Anderson, Sherwood. (1919). Winesburg, Ohio. New York: Norton, 1996.

Bradbury, Ray. (1946). The Martian Chronicles. New York: Bantam, 1977.

Calvino, Italo. (1963). Marcovaldo, or Season in the City. Translated by William Weaver.

        London: Picador, 1983.

Cisneros, Sandra. (1984). The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage, 1991.

Erdrich, Louise. (1984). Love Medicine. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

Joyce, James. (1914). The Dubliners. New York: Viking, 1968.

Faulkner, William. (1938). The Unvanquished. New York: Vintage, 1991.

Guareschi, Giovanni. (1955). The Little World of Don Camillo. From The Don Camillo

Omnibus. New York: Amereon House, 1955. 1-138.

Hemingway, Ernest. (1925). In Our Time. From The Complete Short Stories of Ernest

Hemingway. New York: Scribner, 1987. 65-180.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. (1975). The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. New York: Vintage, 1989.

Momaday, N. Scott. (1969). The Way to Rainy Mountain. Albuquerque, New Mexico: U of

New Mexico P, 1969.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. (1981). Storyteller. New York: Arcade P, 1981.

---. (1977). Ceremony. New York: The Viking P, 1977.

Steinbeck, John. (1935). Tortilla Flat. From Steinbeck: Novels and Stories 1932-1937. New

York: The Library of America, 1994.  

II. Criticism

Awiakta, Marilou. (1993). Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother’s Wisdom. Golden, Colorado:

Fulcrum P, 1993.

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of

Nationalism. London: Verso, 1991.

Bal, Mike. Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. Second Edition. Toronto: U

of Toronto P, 1997.

Barnett, Louise K., and James L. Thorson, eds. Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Critical

        Essays. Albuquerque, New Mexico: U of New Mexico P, 1999.

Beidler, Peter G.., and Gay Barton. A Reader Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich.

Columbia and London: U of Missouri P, 1999.

Brill, Susan Berry. Contemporary American Indian Literature & the Oral Tradition.

Tucson: The U of Arizona P, 1999.

Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught "Hemingway's In Our Time: A Cubist Anatomy". The Hemingway

Review. Spring: 1998. FindArticles.com. 23 Dec. 2006.

        <http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3786/is_199804/ai_n8784090.>

Chavkin, Allen, ed. Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. New York: Oxford UP, 2002.

Davis, Rocio. Transcultural Reinventions: Asian American and Asian Canadian

Short-story Cycles. Toronto: TSAR Publications, 2001.

Dunn, Maggie and Ann Morris. The Composite Novel: The Short Story Cycle in

Transition. Twayne's Studies in Literary Themes and Genres. New York: Twayne, 1995

Ferguson, Suzanne. "The short stories of Louise Edrich's novels." Studies in Short Fiction.

        Fall: 1996. FindArticles.com. 23 Dec. 2006.

        <http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2455/is_n4_v33/ai_20906638.>

Frank, Joseph. “Spatial Form in Modern Literature.” In Michael McKeon Ed. Theory of the

Novel: A Historical Approach. 784-802.

Grassian, Daniel. Understanding Sherman Alexie. Columbia, South Carolina: U of South

Carolina P, 2005.

Mann, Susan Garland. The Short Story Cycle: A Genre Companion and Reference

Guide. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

McKeon, Michael, ed. Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach. Baltimore,

        Maryland: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.

Michelle, Pacht. Discrete Parts, Unified Texts: The Short Story Cycle in America.

Dissertation. ProQuest / UMI: 2006.

Moretti, Franco. The Way of the World: The Bildungroman in European

Culture.” Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach. Ed. Michael McKeon. 554-565.

Nagel, James. Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of

Genre. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2001, 2004.

Owen, Louis. Other Destinies: Understanding American Indian Novel. Norman: U of

Oklahoma P, 1992.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native

American Life Today. NY: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Smitten, Jeffrey R., and Ann Daghistany, eds. Spatial Form in Narrative. Ithaca and London:

        Cornell UP, 1981.

Toolan, Michael J. Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction. London and New York:

Routledge, 1988.