Literature and Undergraduates
Posted on July 20th, 2010
Here are questions I confront once again as I prepare for my classes in the upcoming fall semester:
Why should undergraduate university students pursuing degrees other than the ones offered in English Departments be required to study literature?
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Why I cannot (and will not) persist in my attempt to read FINNEGAN’S WAKE
Posted on June 26th, 2010
Here is a typical “sentence” from James Joyce”s Finnegan’s Wake:
“It is the circumconversioning of antelithual paganelles by a huggerknut cramwell energuman, or the caecodedition of an absquelitteris puttagonnianne to the herreraism of a cabotinesque exploser?”
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Book Review (Courtesy of BookLoons)
Posted on May 3rd, 2010
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
Knopf, 2009 (2009)
Hardcover, CD, e-Book
In his magnificent first novel, Abraham Verghese draws upon his own cultural and professional background to produce an epic tale of dignity and compassion.
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Review – Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician
Posted on February 5th, 2010
Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician
By Daniel Wallace
Doubleday, 257 pages
ISBN 0-385-52109-X
Henry Walker, the magician in Jeremiah Mosgrove’s Chinese Circus, has been having problems: he “can’t do a trick to save his life.” Yet before joining the circus, as the shadowy Mr.
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The Masterpiece from Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Posted on September 25th, 2009
According to this article in The Guardian (UK), One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most significant (influential) books in many, many years.
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