20th Century American Fiction, fall 2006
Presentation schedule

Sept. 12: Michael: "The Dark Dimension of Willa Cather's My Antonia" by Lois Feger; Liam on "Against the Grain: Willa Cather and the Myths of Immigration in My Antonia" by Christopher Sten
Sept. 15: no presentation

Sept. 19: Jennifer: "The Great Gatsby and the Obscene Word" by Barbara Will; Dan: "Within and Without: Nick Carraway" by David H. Lynn
Sept. 22: NO CLASS (Rosh Hashanah)

Sept. 26: Allison: "Benjy, Narrativity and the Coherence of Compson History" by Stacy Burton
Sept. 29: no presentation

Oct. 3: NO CLASS (Monday schedule)
Oct. 6: ; Trevor: "The Words of The Sound and the Fury" by Robert Martin; Josette: "Quentin Compson's Universal Grief" by Mark Spilka

Oct. 10: David: "Quentin Compson: Self-Portrait of a Young Artist's Emotion" by Jackson J. Benson; Ivan: "The Comic Structure of The Sound and the Fury" by Fred Chappell
Oct. 13: Hyojin: "Underground to Manhood: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" by James B. Lane

Oct. 17: George: "The Rhetoric of Anticommunism in Invisible Man" by Barbara Foley
Oct. 20: Mike: "Masquerade, Magic, and Carnival in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" by Christopher A. Shinn

Oct. 24: Brendan: "Embracing Chaos in Narrative Form: The Bebop Aesthetic in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" by A. Timothy Spaulding
Oct. 27: no presentation

Oct. 31: Pina: "The Narrator/Narratee Relashionship in Invisible Man" by Michel Fabre; Matthew: "Invisible Man and African American Radicalism in World War II" by Christopher Z. Hobson
Nov. 3: MIDTERM

Nov. 7: No presentation.
Nov. 10: Taylor: "Necrophilia in Lolita" by Lucy B. Maddox; Jan: "Lolita and the Modern Experience of Beauty" by Steven H. Butler

Nov. 14: Eileen: "The Enchanted Hunters: Nabokov's Use of Folk Characterization in Lolita" by Steven Swann Jones.
Nov. 17: Linden: "Lolita at 50: Is Nabokov's Masterpiece Still Shocking?" by Stephen Metcalf; Amy: "'Knowing' Lolita: Sexual Deviance and Normality in Nabokov's Lolita by Eric Goldman.

Nov. 21: Brooke: "'Truly Serpentine': 'New Journalism,' In Cold Blood, and the Vietnam War" by Nick Rance
Nov. 22: No presentation.
Nov. 24: NO CLASS (Thanksgiving)

Nov. 28: Conrad: "'The Last to See Them Alive': Panopticism, the Supervisory Gaze, and Catharsis in Capote's In Cold Blood" by Trenton Hickman
Dec. 1: No presentation.

Dec. 5: Noura: "Capote's 'Handcarved Coffins' and the Nonfiction novel" by Robert Siegle
Dec. 8: Gabriela: "Focusing on the Wrong Front: Historical Displacement and The Bluest Eye; Wing: "Not so Fast Dick and Jane: Reimagining Childhood and Nation in The Bluest Eye" by Debra Werrlein

Dec. 12: Rossy: either "When Home Fails to Nurture The Self: Tragedy of Being Homeless at Home" by Leester Thomas or "Order and Disorder in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye" by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi