WEA LEWES BRANCH AUTUMN 2008

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STUDIES IN FICTION
Friday mornings from 26 September 2008 - 10am to 12noon
10 discussion classes
Church End, Cockshut Road, Lewes, East Sussex (click address to see map)
just off Southover High Street

CLASS TUTOR: DR ARNOLD GOLDMAN
 

Excerpts from Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. (1760-67) will be handed out at the class. If you want one now, CLICK HERE.

The Non-Linear Tradition in Literature has notes on some authors whom those interested in "hypertext" IT consider to be their hardcopy predecessors: Laurence Sterne, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Vladimir Nabokov (author of Pale Fire), Julio Cortázar, Flann O'Brien (author of At-Swim-Two-Birds), Italo Calvino and Milorad Pavic (author of A Dictionary of the Khazars).

The Ford Madox Ford Society

Max Saunders, Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life (2 vols, OUP, 1996). See http://tinyurl.com/62347x

Arthur Mizener, The Saddest Story (1971, 1985). See Review by Clive James (1994)

my story line

Jane Smiley in The Guardian, 27 May 2006

Julian Barnes in The Guardian, 7 June 2008

Kenneth Womack, "'It is all a darkness': Death, Narrative Therapy, and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier", Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2002 - "Interpreting Dowell's experiences in The Good Soldier using the parlance of family systems psychotherapy...."

the TV film (1981)
dir. Kevin Billington; adaptation by Julian Mitchell; Jeremy Brett: Edward Ashburnham; Susan Fleetwood: Leonora Ashburnham

The William Faulkner Society

Richard Gray, The Life of William Faulkner (Blackwells, 1996)

Frederick Robert Karl, William Faulkner - American Writer: a Biography (1989)

Joseph Blotner, William Faulkner: a Biography (1974)

The hypertext edition of The Sound and the Fury contains the full text of the novel and a chronology for the novel's first two chapters; alternatively, see my story line for the first chapter and my story line for the second chapter (based on the hypertext edition).

a glossary of terms for The Sound and the Fury

Mahalo.com's The Sound and the Fury guide

Some editions contain

the film (1959)
Yul Brynner: Jason Compson; Joanne Woodward: Quentin Compson/narrator; Ethel Waters: Dilsey; Jack Warden: Ben Compson

BBC interviews with Heller

Joseph Heller, Now and Then: a Memoir from Coney Island to Here (1998)

online literary criticism about Catch-22 on Internet Public Library

"Catch-22's non-chronological narrative"  by Pedrolio

David Seed, The Fiction of Joseph Heller: Against the Grain (1989)

the film (1970)
dir.Mike Nicholls; Alan Arkin: Yossarian; Martin Balsam: Col. Cathcart; Richard Benjamin: Maj. Danby; Art Garfunkel: Capt Natley; Bob Newhart: Maj. Major Major Major; Anthony Perkins: Capt. Chaplin A.T. Tappman (sic); Martin Sheen: 1st Lt Dobbs; Jon Voight: 1st Lt Milo Minderbinder; Orson Wells: Brig. Gen. Dreedle

the author's official website

the biblio.com biography

the bookbrowse.com biography

the leninimports.com biography

story line [please do not consult this until you have completed the novel]

The CIA's summary of the story - CIA SIGINT is credited with getting the goods on the spy

the TV mini-series (1986, 7 episodes
Peter Egan: Magnus Pym, Ray McNally: Rick Pym, Alan Howard: Jack Brotherhood, Peggy Ashcroft: Miss Dubber

this course syllabus is on the world wide web at http://tinyurl.com/3dhdcl
updates are added from time to time

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to book a place on the course

You can book a place on the course (10 meetings) by sending a cheque for £68 made out to "WEA" to Sylvia Lawrence, 7 Priory Crescent, Lewes, BN7 1HP. A limited number of places is available.

Enquiries can be made to Shirley Darlington tel. 01273 476206 or by email to shirleydarlington at yahoo.co.uk - substituting "@" for "at".

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other author and novel web links

There are other websites - even many other websites - for an individual author or title than those provided here. I've linked to a variety of sites - academic, author society, personal, interview, encyclopedia (e.g. Wikipedia), publisher, reading guides and reading group notes (some commercial) with questions to ask yourself. Some webpages contain the beginnings of essays which you may have to register to read the rest of (at a price).

If a novel is out of copyright - and sometimes even if not! - a website may offer the entire text.

Entering the author's name (within double inverted commas) or the title of the novel (within double inverted commas) into Google or other search engines will provide lists of links to author or title websites but also to other sites including booksellers offering to sell copies - see "internet book purchase" - and films or other adaptations of the novel. Do browse the web for author and novel sites: Jack Lynch's literary references on the net is a useful starting point for literary web-searching. The most comprehensive internet database for literary study is The Voice of the Shuttle.

AG
02 October 2008

local area bookshops
click to see

Lewes bookshops
The Bow Windows Bookshop
East Sussex bookshops
Much Ado Books (Alfriston)

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internet book purchase

I recommend (1) Amazon, for new books and links to sellers of used books, including US booksellers (whose books may take longer to reach you); (2) Abebooks for used books - bought by Amazon in August 2008; and (3) Alibris for used books. (In each case, use the UK branch - ending in .co.uk - not the US branch - ending in .com.)

If you purchase £15 worth of new books directly from Amazon, there is no charge for posting - providing you choose the (slower) free delivery option.

Used books should be cheaper than new books but do note the postal charges, which can be around  £3 for each book; more if posted from the U.S.

AG

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