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...relations among author, reader, text, and the circumstances in which the text is produced?” to quote the Courses of Instruction. Yet the number of cross-listed departmental courses remains agonizingly low. We are stumped as to why English 151, “The 19th Century Novel,” is somehow worthy of Core credit, while English 141, “The 18th Century Novel,” is not. Bizarrely, the Core continues to insist that its presentation of various “approaches to learning” justifies its distinctness from the rest...
...young women seem a little unrealistic—not all of us know what we want from guys, and even those who do don’t always know how to get it. Perhaps it’s for girls like me that Curtis Sittenfeld wrote her newest novel, “The Man of My Dreams...
Exploring what it is to be insecure and introverted in a culture that operates under the assumption that all girls are self-confident, the novel follows Hannah Gavener from her first crush at age 14, to her first kiss at 21, to her present-day life as a 28-year...
Unfortunately, the novel ends on a disheartening note...
...another little girl were found up a tree," says Wright, who has long speculated on how she came to be there and on the family's Chinese ancestry: "How do the spirits connect when people come from other countries?" It's a question she'll explore in her next novel, Rara Avis (In the Swan's Nest). Meanwhile, Wright wants to take her writing back to its roots. "I thought it could be a grand idea," she says, "if one day Carpentaria could be read in one sitting in the Gulf, or in the schools, just like James Joyce...