Fall 2005

Those registering for the Fall 2005, for English 201:026, and English 302N08 and 302N09 might want to have an idea of what we will read, watch and write about. The books are listed in the order we will read them.

Reading and Writing About Texts: A Primary Course on Literature

• English 201:026 (Tues, 4:30-7:10 pm, Robinson A125).

Required Books

• Carr, E. L. A Month in the Country, introd. Michael Holroyd. New York: New York Review of Books, 1980. ISBN 0-940322471.
• Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto. New York: HarperCollins, Perennial 2002 ISBN 0060934417. Pbk.
• Bolt, Robert. A Man for All Seasons. New York: Vintage, 1988. ISBN 0-679-728220-8.
• Piercy, Marge. Moon is Always Female. New York: Knopf, 1981. # 0394738594.
• Tilburg, Carl Walter Van. The Ox-Bow Incident. New York: Modern Library Paperback, 2004. ISBN 0-375-7572-3
• Swift, Graham. Last Orders. Vintage, 1996. ISBN 0-679-76662-6.
• Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. Penguin, 2002. ISBN 0-14-200138-4.
• Mason, Bobbie Ann. The Girl Sleuth: On the trail of Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton, and Cherry Ames. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. ISBN 082031739X
• Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Teheran. Random House, 2004. ISBN 0-8129-7106-X.

Possible Films:

• A Month in the Country. 1987 Channel Four/Orion Film. Produced by Kenneth Trodd. Director, Pat O'Conner; screenplay, J. L. Carr and Simon Gray; starring Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Malahide, Richard Vernon, Jim Carter, Vicki Arundale, Martin O'Neile. Original Music: Howard Blake. 96 minutes.
• A Man for All Seasons. Fred Zinneman film from a screenplay adapted from the original play by Robert Bolt, with Paul Scofield as More, Leo McKern as Thomas Cromwell, John Hurt as Sir Richard Rich, Wendy Hiller as Alice, Susannah York as Meg, Orson Welles as Wolsey, Robert Shaw as Henry VIII, Nigel Davenport as Howard (his family, not first name), Duke of Norfolk, Corin Redgrave as William Roper, Colin Blakely as Matthew, Vanessa Redgrave as Anne Boleyn. A 1966 Highland Film. 120 minutes.
• The Ox-Bow Incident. 1943 20th Century Fox. Directed by William A. Wellman, screeplay Walter Van Tilburg Clark and Lamar Trotti Starring Henry Fonda as Gil Carter, Dana Andrews as Donald Martin, Mary Beth Hughes as Rose Mapen/Rose Swanson, Anthony Quinn as Juan Martinez/Francisco Morez, William Eythe as Gerald Tetley, Harry Morgan as Art Croft (as Henry Morgan), Jane Darwell as Jenny Grier 75 minutes.
• Last Orders. 2001 Columbia Tristar Picture. Executive Producer: Ed Atkinson. Directed by Fred Schepisi; screenplay Fred Schepisi and Graham Swift; starring Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine, Tom Courteney, David Hemmings, Ray. Winston, J. J. Field. Original Music: Paul Grabowsky. 109 minutes.

Advanced Composition on the Natural Sciences and Technology

• English 302N08 (Tues/Thurs, 1:30-2:45 pm, Robinson A249).
• English 302N09 (Tues/Thurs, 3:00-4:15 pm, Robinson A243).

Required Books

• Trimble, John. Writing with Style: Conversations on the art of writing. NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999. Second edition. ISBN 0-13-025713-3.
• Feynman, Richard and Ralph Leighton. Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! NY: Norton, 1997. ISBN 0-393-31604-1.
• Feynman, Richard and Ralph Leighton. "What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?" NY: Norton, 2001. ISBN 0-393-32092-8.
• Sacks, Oliver, ed. Best American Science Writing 2003. Dimensions: Ecco, 2003. ISBN 0060936517; [or

  Sobel, Dava, ed. Best American Science Writing 2004. HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN 0-06-072540-7.]

• Wallace, Jennifer. Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological Imagination. London: Duckworth, 2004. ISBN 0715632787; [or

  Primo, Levi. The Periodic Table, translated by Raymond Rosenthal. New York: Schocken, 1995. ISBN: 0805210415.]

• Olson, Steven. Mapping Human History: Genes, Race and Our Common Origins. New York: Hougton Mifflin, 2002. ISBN: 0-618-35210-4
• Edson, Margaret. Wit: A Play. New York: Faber and Faber, 1999. ISBN 0- 571- 19877-5.
• Ofri, Danielle. Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue. New York: Penguin, 1987. ISBN 0-14-2004383; [or

  Stoller, Paul. Stranger in the Village: A Memoir of Cancer, Sorcery and Healing. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. ISBN: 0-80707260-5.]

Possible Films

• Ralph Leighton's The Last Journey of a Genius. A BBC/NOVA film, 54 minutes, January 1989. This is a film portrait biography of Richard Feynman.
• Peter Jones and David R. Axelrod's Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude. A 1998 NOVA film, 60 minutes. Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, with Patrick Malahide as John Harrison.
• Christopher Hale's In Search of the First Language. A 1997 Horizon, WGBH, BBC-TV film. Narrated Peter Thomas. Editors include Adam de Van, Jana Bennet. 60 minutes.
• Wit, HBO film, made for TV, from a screenplay by Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Margaret Edson. Produced by Simon Bosanquet. Directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson as Vivan Bearing, Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Kelekian, Eileen Atkins as E.M. Ashford, Audra McDonald as Susie Monahan, Jonathan M. Woodward as Jason Posner, Harold Pinter as Vivian's Father, and Rebecca Laurie as Vivian aged 5. A professor is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. 98 minutes.