Projects in Literature

 

·         Russian Literature – the fiction of Turgenev, Chekhov and Dostoevsky

 

·         Magical Realism – Rushdie, Grass & Marquez

 

·         John Updike & his Rabbit Novels

 

·         Booker Prize Winners of the last 10 Years

 

·         The unusual fiction of Jorge Luis Borges

 

·         Gothic Fiction – The Castle of Otranto to The Monk

 

·         Modernist Fiction – Virginia Woolf to James Joyce

 

·         Representations of Manchester in Literature – Once in a House on Fire back to Mary Barton

 

·         Fiction in Translation – The French Existentialists – Sartre & Camus

 

·         Fiction in Translation – German – Grass & Goethe

 

·         Fiction in Translation – Spanish – Cervantes to Marquez

 

 

·         Dickens – What’s the best Dickens doorstopper? Bleak House, Great Expectations or Dombey & Son?

 

·         Pickwick Vs Don Quixote – who’s the most ridiculous? (Or is it Tristram Shandy?)

 

·         The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008  – Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

 

§         http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/clezio-prose.html

 

·         The Nobel Prize in Literature… one-hundred and seven years of ideas

 

·         Cutting Edge Fiction in Britain – Granta Magazine

 

·         Cutting Edge Fiction in America – NewYorker & Mac Sweeny’s Magazines

 

·         American Literature – Huckleberry Finn to The Corrections

 

·         Malcontents in Literature – Dostoevsky’s Underground Man (Notes From the Underground), Camus’ Meursault, Salinger’s Holden Caulfield and friends

 

·         The devil in literature – from Paradise Lost to The Master & Margarita

 

·         The American Dream – The Great Gatsby to American Pastoral

 

·         The American Nightmare – The Grapes of Wrath to American Psycho

 

·         The novels of Ian McEwan

 

·         The novels of William Faulkner

 

·         The Secret History, The Confederacy of Dunces & other one hit wonders

 

·         The Magus, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin & other magical novels of the Mediterranean

 

·         Philip Roth – a lifetime in American Fiction

 

·         Zamyatin’s We and the other dystopias

 

·         Turkish Fiction in Translation – the work of Orhan Pamuk

 

·         The Best American Short Stories – collection edited by Richard Ford

 

·         Cult American Fiction – Bukowski et al

 

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