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On the Team Presentations, Fall 2005
The week after we return from Thanksgiving Break, each team will deliver a ten-minute presentation on the ways a work from outside the course connects to the course material.
Teams will be evaluated on the quality of the connections they draw between the work and the course and the quality of the presentation on such matters as organization, clarity, and ability to engage the audience.
Here is a list of approved works for the Team Presentation Project. If teams want to focus on a work not on this list, they must seek the permission of the instructor. Teams must have chosen a work, have ordered it (either from the campus bookstore or from one of the on-line options on the links page or elsewhere), and have informed me as to their choice over email by October 17:
Literature
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
- Aeschylus, The Oresteia
- Aesop's Fables
- Anna Akhmatova, Poems
- Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues
- Julia Alvarez, Yo!
- Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
- Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
- Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters
- John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
- Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
- T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End
- Octavia Butler, Kindred
- Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler
- Albert Camus, The Plague
- Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee
- Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco
- Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
- Marilyn Chin, The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty
- Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek
- J.M. Coetzee, Foe
- Maryse Condé, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- Robert Coover, Ghost Town
- Tsitsi Dangaremba, Nervous Conditions
- Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- Samuel Delany, Atlantis: Model 1924
- Don DeLillo, White Noise
- Mahasweta Devi, Imaginary Maps
- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
- E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
- John Dos Passos, The Big Money
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
- Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- Louise Erdrich, Tracks
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
- E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
- Neil Gaiman, Sandman
- Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land
- William Gibson, Neuromancer
- Nadine Gordimer, My Son's Story
- Patricia Grace, Potiki
- Günter Grass, The Tin Drum
- Graham Greene, The Quiet American
- Wilson Harris, The Palace of the Peacock
- Michael Herr, Dispatches
- Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
- Lawson Fusao Inada, Legends from Camp
- Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
- Gish Jen, Mona in the Promised Land
- Charles Johnson, Oxherding Tale
- Gayl Jones, Corregidora
- James Joyce, Ulysses
- Cynthia Kadohata, The Floating World
- Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories
- Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
- Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed
- Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- Tony Kushner, Angels in America
- Nella Larsen, Quicksand
- Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Paule Marshall, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
- Shara McCallum, The Water Between Us
- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
- James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room
- Gregory Maguire, Wicked
- Maureen McHugh, China Mountain Zhang
- Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories
- Rigoberta Menchu, I, Rigoberta Menchu
- Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
- N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
- Alan Moore, Promethea
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Bharati Mukherjee, The Holder of the World
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
- V.S. Naipaul, A Way in the World
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Miracle Fruit
- Naomi Shihab Nye, Fuel
- Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl
- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- Suzan-Lori Parks, The Red Letter Plays
- Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River
- Marge Piercy, Women on the Edge of Time
- Jacque Poulin, Volkswagen Blues
- Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2
- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
- Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo
- Adrienne Rich, An Atlas of the Difficult World
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
- Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
- Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
- Andre Schwartz-Bart, The Last of the Just
- W.G. Sebald, The Emigrants
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest
- Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller
- Art Spiegelman, Maus
- Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
- Neal Stephenson. Snow Crash
- James Stevens, Combing the Snakes from His Hair
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
- Jean Toomer, Cane
- Derek Walcott, Omeros
- James Welch, Winter in the Blood
- H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
- Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
- Karen Tei Yamashita, Tropic of Orange
Films
- All the President's Men
- Apocalypse Now
- Big Fish
- Casablanca
- Citizen Kane
- The Crying Game
- Daughters of the Dust
- Donnie Darko
- Fight Club
- Independence Day
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Matrix
- Memento
- Network
- On the Waterfront
- Rashomon
- Star Wars
- Total Recall
- Waking Life
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ENGL 345: Critical Reading, Fall 2005
Created: 10/4/05 11:59 am
Last modified: 10/10/05 9:47 am
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