English BC 3171                                             Prof.Jaanus                                           
The Novel                                                        Fall, 1992

Reading List and Schedule  

Sept 9 

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  14, 16 Austen, Emma (Norton Critical or Signet) 1816  
  21    
  23, 28 E. Bronte, Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical) 1847  
  30  
Oct 5, 7 Dickens, Great Expectations (Norton Critical)  1860-1  
  12,14  
  19, 21 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Norton Critical) 1875-7 
  26, 28  or Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Vintage)  1821-1881  
Nov 4, 9, 11 Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Signet or Norton Critical) 1891         
  16, 18 Balzac, Cousin Bette
  23, 25 Theodore Fontane, Effi Briest 1895  
Dec 2, 7 C. Bronte, Jane Eyre  1847  
  9

(Norton Critical or Signet) 0r   DH Lawrence, Women in Love

Requirements:

Final Examination -- will contain a choice of essay questions; you will be required to write on six novels (one of these must be either Dickens, Eliot, or Tolstoy.)
Term Paper -- 8 pages, typed. due Dec, 2

INCOMPLETES WILL ONLY BE GRANTED IN CASES OF DIRE EMERGENCY. 

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English BC 3171y                      Prof. Jaanus                                                             
The Novel                                   Fall, 1992

Film Versions of Novels:

Great Expectations, 1946; directed by James Whale
Wuthering Heights, 1939; directed by Wlm. Wyler
Tess, 1981; directed by Roman Polanski
Anna Karenina

 

Available on tape at the Wollman Library Audio-visual Center, third floor.
More tapes may become available in the course of the semester.

There are many other adaptations of these novels that may be shown in the city during our course. If you know about such showings, please let the class know.

You may refer to these films in your papers, but the focus of the term paper must be the written novel.