Spring 2009
Syllabuses
Reading and Writing about Texts: Gothics, Realism and Other Worlds:
English 201.73 (Thurs, 4:30-7:10, Robinson A210)
Advanced Composition on the Natural Sciences and Applied Technology:
English 302N15 (Tues, 7:20-10:00, Enterprize 174)
Short Talk Schedules
Short Talks for English 201.73: Reading and Writing About Texts
Short
Talks for English 302N15: Advanced Composition in the Natural Sciences and Technology
Bibliography and Notes Formats for All Students
For English 201.73
The Format Students Must Follow to Write Essays
Student Models for English 201.73
For Short Talk
Student Models for Essays with Guidelines:
Student Models for Comparisons of Novel and Films:
Student Model Film Review
Further Online Materials for English 201.73: Gothics, Realism, and Other Worlds
- For Edith Wharton's "Afterward"
- For Mary Shelley and Frankenstein:
- For Robert Louis Stevenson and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
- For Valerie Martin and Mary Reilly
- For Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
- For Colm Toibin and Blackwater Lightship:
- Martyn Beford's "Going Gently," New Statesman, 128:4458 (11 October 1999): 57-8.
- Judy Lightfoot's "Blackwater Lightship: Rich and Vital,", Seattle Times, August 27, 2000. Online.
- Life, work, and writing (1), Life, work, and writing (2)
- For Jhumpa Lahiri and The Namesake
- Text of Gogol's Overcoat
- Life, works and writing of Gogol
- Overview of "The Overcoat"
- "The Overcoat" as a ghost story.
- Mandira Sen's "Names and Nicknames," review in Women's Review of Books, 21:6 (2004):9-10.
- Michiko Kakutani's "From Calcutta to Suburbia: A Family's Perplexing Journey," New York Times, September 2, 2003.
- Sarah Kerr's "Displaced Passions," New York Review of Books, 55:8 (May 8, 2009)
- Life, work, and writing
- For Ian McEwan's Atonement
- Brian Finney's "Briony's stand against Oblivion" in Ian McEwan's Atonement, Journal of Modern Literature, 27:3 (2004 Winter), pp. 68-82.
- Hildago Pilar's "Memory
and Story-Telling in Ian McEwan's Atonement,
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 46:2 (2005
Winter), pp. 82-91.
- Hermione Lee's review of Atonement, "If your memories serve you well ...", The Spectator, 23
September 2001
- Life, work and writing (early horror fiction), Life, work and writing (goes into later fiction, e.g., Child of Time.
- For Suzy McKee Charnas's Vampire Tapestry
- A summary of the story of Puccini's Tosca, with links to illustrations from a specific performance.
- Kathy Davis's 'Beauty
in the Beast: The 'Feminization' of Weyland in The Vampire
Tapestry", Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and
Fantasy, 43:1 (2002 Spring), pp. 62-79.
- Vrydolak's review of
Vampire Tapestry, BC [Blogs critics] Books, January 7, 2009
- Linda Suzane's Interview with Suzy McKee Charnas, May 27, 2005
- Life, work, and writing
- For Michel Faber and Under the Skin:
- For the movies we see Afterward, Mary Shelleys' Frankenstein, Mary Reilly, The Namesake
Atonement
For English 302N15
For Use in Class
Learning to Write an Abstract for 302BN2
Student Models
For Short Talk
For Model Proposals
Essay #1
Student Book Reviews
Essay #2
Essay #3
Student Film Reviews
Professional Online Materials: Advanced Composition on the Natural Sciences and Applied Technology
- For Richard Feynman
- A short list of books by and on Richard Feynman
- Michael Swaine, Four Feynman Books, "Programmer's Bookshelf", Electronic Review of Books
- Peter Weiss, "Dr Feynman's Doodles: How one scientist's simple sketches transformed physics", first published in Science News, 168:3 [July 16, 2005]:40-42, 44.
- William Deresiewicz, "Who profits from scientific research,", The Nation, March 16, 2009, pp. 23-28.
- For Dava Sobel
- For John McPhee
- For the book and film, The Constant Gardener
- John LeCarre, "Congo Journey", The Nation (October 2, 2006): 16-20.
- Marcia Angell "The Body Hunters", New York Review of Books, 52:15, October 16, 2005. A review of book and film and
researched essay on politics and the pharmaceutical industry.
- Marcia Angel "Drug Companies and Doctors: A Story of Corruption", New York Review of Books, 56:1(January 15, 2009)
- Marcia Angell, "Your
Dangerous Drugstore", New York Review of Books, 53:10 (June 8, 2006).
- Bok, Derek. "Academic Values and the Lure of Profit", Chronicle of Higher Education, 49:30 (4 April 2003): B7-9
- Todd Hoffman, "The Constant Writer: LeCarre
Spies a New Villain", Queen's Quarterly, Spring 2001
- Bibliography for LeCarre
- For Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science:
- Atul Gawande, The Bell Curve: What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are?", The New Yorker, December 6, 2004.
Atul Gawande, "Piecework: Medicine's Money Problem", The New Yorker, April 4, 2005.
- Atul Gawande, "The Score: How childbirth went industrial", The New Yorker, October 9, 2006, 59-67.
- Atul Gawande, "The Way We Age Now", The New Yorker, April 30, 2007
- Atul Gawande, "Sick
and Twisted", The New Yorker, July 23, 2007. A review of
Michael Moore's documenary, Sicko
- Atul Gawande, "Getting
There from Here: How should Obama reform health care (alternate
title: "How health-care reform really happens"), The New
Yorker, January 26, 2009.
- Atul Gawande, "Hellhole", an essay on medical and human rights about the torture of solitary confinement, The New Yorker, March 30, 2009
- A short list of books and essays on the science of medicine.
Internet Movie Database information for Longitude, The Constant Gardener,Wit
Preview
Fall 2009
English 302H05 (Mon/Wed, 1:30-2:45 am, Robinson A125)
English 302H07 (Mon/Wed, 3:00-4:15 am, Robinson A245)
Book and Film Lists
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