Short Talk and Film Schedule for Fall 2004:
Reading & Writing About Texts: A Primary Course on How to Read and to Write About Literature

Eng 201:033 (Thurs, 4:30-7:10, 7:20-10pm, Enterprize 279)

Eng 201.035 (Thurs, 7:20-10pm Robinson A210)
Dr Ellen Moody

Session 1: Thurs, Sept 2nd

• The class will watch Herbert Wise's 1993 film adaptation of Susan Hill's The Woman In Black

Session 3: Thurs, Sept 16th

• The class will watch Fred Schepisi's 2001 film adaptation of Graham Swift's Last Orders.

Session 4: Thurs, Sept 23rd

• Short Talk 1: Discuss evil, guilt, and justice in The Woman In Black in terms of the wrong done to Jennet Humphrye as mother: Kamran Shahnazi/______________________
  
• Short Talk 2: Discuss the different ways Arthur Kidd functions in The Woman in Black: Charles Wolford/Amaka Onyewuchi
  
• Short Talk 3: Sons and Disappointed Men (myths of masculinity and success) in Last Orders: Shawn Bennett/Chuck Sochin
  
• Short Talk 4. The roles of Amy, Mandy, and June in Last Orders: Tabinda Kanwal/_____________________________
  

Session 5: Thurs, Sept 30th

• Short Talk 5: The Uses of Place or Setting in The Woman in Black and Last Orders: Bosky Lal/Chuck Sochin
  
• The class will watch the 1993 BBC film of Ibsen's A Doll's House.

Session 6: Thurs, Oct 7th

• Short Talk 6: Trace the ways in which Money is Used in A Doll's House: Justin Park/Brittany Foreman
  
• Short Talk 7: The theme of power in A Doll's House: Arthur King/Faruk Taher
  
• Short Talk 8: The role of secrets, lying, and pretense in A Doll's House: Suzie Phillips/Mona Sanei
  

Session 7: Thurs, Oct 14th

• Short Talk 9: Oppressive and illegitimate norms (myths of masculinity and success) in The Death of a Salesman: Thien Pham/Jason Winn
  
• Short Talk 10: The Role of Money in The Death of a Salesman: Mya Wallace/Mo Islam
  
• Short Talk 11: Responses to Disillusionment in A Doll's House and The Death of a Salesman: Compare Nora Helmer/Kristine Linde and Willy Loman/Charley: Jay Patet/Neha Arora
  

Session 9: Thurs, Oct 28th

• Short Talk 12: Use of Sensual Imagery for Protest in poems of Edward Thomas (in Silkin volume): Tiffany Ogu/Lauren Intellini
  
• Short Talk 13: Reports on Experience: The poems of Edmund Blunden (in Silkin volume): Kamram Shahnazi/_________________________
  
• Short Talk 14: Strange Hells in the poems of Ivor Gurney, Edgell Rickword, Richard Aldington, Ford Madox Ford (in Silkin volume): ____________________/Mona Sanei
  

Session 10: Thurs, Nov 4th

• Short Talk 15: Evaluation as Protest in the poems of Siegfried Sassoon (in Silkin volume): Amanda Saul/______________________
  
• Short Talk 16: Self-education as Protest in the poems of Wilfred Owen (in Silkin volume): Alishia Scott/John Hawk
  
• Short Talk 17: Reports on Experience in German poetry (Georg Heym, Georg Trakl, Alfred Lichtenstein, Ernest Stadler, Wilhelm Klemm, August Stramm, Albert Einstein, Anton Schnack, Yvan Goll, all in Silkin) and All Quiet on the Western Front: _________________________/_______________________
  
• Short Talk 18: The collapse of the old value system in All Quiet on the Western Front: Rachel Bumala/Alfredo Molina
  

Session 11: Thurs, Nov 11th

• Short Talk 19: Friendship and the Will to Survive in All Quiet on the Western Front: Amanda Saul/Judy Torres
  
• Short Talk 20: Betrayal in The Quiet American: Etiah White/Justine Hogue-Jordan
  
• Short Talk 21: Living on "the dangerous edge of things" in The Quiet American: __________________/Jason Winn
  

Session 12: Thurs, Nov 18th

• Short 22: Compare the different faces of war (the way war is fought, who are the victims, what cruelties are perpetrated) in All Quiet on the Western Front and The Quiet American: ______________________________/Tyrone Santos
  
• Short Talk 23: Nafisi and her students read Nabokov (Part One of Reading Lolita in Teheran): Alishia Scott/Marianna Dorn
  
• Short Talk 24: Nafisi and her students read Gatsby (Part Two of Reading Lolita in Teheran): Allison Bousch/Muaz Ahmed
  

Session 13: Thurs, Dec 2nd

• Short Talk 25: Woman's point of view on war among women poets in Silkin's volume and Reading Lolita in Teheran: _________________/Chelsea Magee
  
• Short Talk 26: Nafisi and her students read James (Part Three of Reading Lolita in Teheran): Tiffany Ogu/Jenny McKean
  
• Short Talk 27: Nafisi and her students read Austen (Part Four of Reading Lolita in Teheran): Tang Pham/Mona Sanei
  

Session 14: Thurs, Dec 9th

• Short talk 28: Harmful romantic female stereotypes/oppressive and illegitimate norms (myths of femininity) in Heat and Dust: Trisa Matin/Naomi Fontaine-Colbert
  
• Short Talk 29: Harry and Ritu (Inder Lal's wife): Powerlessness in Heat and Dust: Monika Jones/Jenny McKean
  
• Short Talk 30: The contrast between UK/US/"Western" and Iraqi/Indian values in Reading Lolita in Teheran and Heat and Dust: Jaime Diaz/Joshua Williams