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
Latest Update: 2007/04/17

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Visitors Since 2007, 3, 2

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Notes

1

3/06

Introduction

Goldberg, Michael E. "The synchronic series as the origin of the modernist short story."

Dunn, Maggie and Ann Morris. “Chapter 1: The Composite Novel: Naming and Defining a Developing Genre.”

Mp3

2

3/13

Dunn, Maggie and Ann Morris. “Chapter 4: Rite of Passage: The Protagonist as Focus in the Composite Novel.”

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

 

 

3

3/20

Rorty, Amelie Oksenberg. “Character, Persons, Selves, Individual.”

4

3/27

  • Hemingway, Ernest. (1925). In Our Time.

Dunn, Maggie and Ann Morris. “Chapter 5: (E)mergent Protagonist(S): The Collective Protagonist as Concept and Connective.”

Frank, Joseph. “Spatial Form in Modern Literature.”

Mp3

 

 

5

4/03

Vacation  (No Class)

6

4/10

  • Hemingway, Ernest. (1925). In Our Time.

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

7

4/17

  • Erdrich, Louise. (1984). Love Medicine. (Note 4)

Dunn, Maggie and Ann Morris. “Chapter 5: (E)mergent Protagonist(S): The Collective Protagonist as Concept and Connective.”

Nagel, James. “The Ethinic Resonance of Genre: Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine.”

 

 

8

4/24

  • Erdrich.

Ferguson, Suzanne. "The short stories of Louise Edrich's novels."

9

5/01

  • Cisneros, Sandra. (1984). The House on Mango Street.

Nagel, James. “Sandra Cisnero’s Cuentios Latinos: The House on Mango Street.”

 

10

5/08

Tan, Amy. (1989). The Joy Luck Club.

Nagel, James. “Generational Identity and Form: Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.”

Souris, Stephen "`Only two kinds of daughters’: Inter-monologue Dialogicity in The Joy Luck

 Club.”

Mp3 + film

 

11

5/15

  • Tan.

Davis, Rocio. “Inscribing Mothers and Daughters: Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and Rachna Mara’s Of Customs and Excise.”

12

5/22

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

Slethaug, Gordon E "Hurricanes and fires: Chaotics in Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals and

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven."

film

 

13

5/29

Alexie.

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

14

6/05

  • Vizenor, Gerald. (1991). Landfill Meditation: Crossblood Stories.

Helstern, Linda Lizut. ""Bad Breath": Gerald Vizenor's Lacanian Fable."

 

 

15

6/12

  • Vizenor.

Nora Baker Barry "Postmodern Bears in the Texts of Gerald Vizenor."

Blair, Elizabeth. "Text as Trickster: Postmodern Language Games in Gerald Vizenor's 'Bearheart.’ - Maskers and Tricksters"

16

6/19

Vacation (No Class)

 

17

6/26

Oral Report (Paper Due)

 

 

I. Story Cycles

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

        Harper Perennial, 1994.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tan, Amy. (1989). The Joy Luck Club. New York: Penguin, 1989.

Vizenor, Gerald. (1991). Landfill Meditation: Crossblood Stories. Hanover & London: UP of

        New England, 1991.

 

II. Criticism

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.

Nora Baker Barry "Postmodern Bears in the Texts of Gerald Vizenor." MELUS. Fall 2002.

FindArticles.com. 18 Jan. 2007.

<http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_3_27/ai_94640672>

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

Columbia and London: U of Missouri P, 1999.

Blair, Elizabeth. "Text as Trickster: Postmodern Language Games in Gerald Vizenor's

 'Bearheart.’ - Maskers and Tricksters". MELUS. Winter 1995. FindArticles.com.

18 Jan. 2007.< http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_n4_v20/ai_18486948>

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.>

Davis, Rocio. “Inscribing Mothers and Daughters: Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and

        Rachna Mara’s Of Customs and Excise.” 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.

Goldberg, Michael E. "The synchronic series as the origin of the modernist short story."

Studies in Short Fiction. Fall 1996. FindArticles.com. 23 Dec. 2006. <http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2455/is_n4_v33/ai_20906636>

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

Carolina P, 2005.

 Helstern, Linda Lizut. ""Bad Breath": Gerald Vizenor's Lacanian Fable." Studies in Short

 Fiction. Fall 1999. FindArticles.com. 18 Jan. 2007.
<http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2455/is_4_36/ai_90990563>

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

        Maryland: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.

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. “The Ethinic Resonance of Genre: Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine.”

Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre. Baton

Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2001, 2004. 18-55.

---. “Sandra Cisnero’s Cuentios Latinos: The House on Mango Street.” Ibid. 104-127.

---. “Generational Identity and Form: Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.” Ibid. 188-222.

Rorty, Amelie Oksenberg. “Character, Persons, Selves, Individual.” In Michael McKeon Ed.

         Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach. 537-553.

Slethaug, Gordon E "Hurricanes and fires: Chaotics in Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals and

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven." Literature Film Quarterly. 2003.
FindArticles.com. 02 Mar. 2007.
<http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_200301/ai_n9212955>

Souris, Stephen "`Only two kinds of daughters’: Inter-monologue Dialogicity in The Joy Luck

 Club.” MELUS. Summer 1994. FindArticles.com. 02 Mar. 2007.

 <http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_n2_v19/ai_18616697>.

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

Routledge, 1988.

 

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