Senior Projects (ENGL 461)
Directed Reading & Discussion Groups
Instructor: Dr. Paul Marchbanks


Reading Schedule (click on links for study questions)
 

In the Shadow of
Kings (fantasy)

Moral Creep
(Gothic Lit.)

The Backhand of Genius (sci-fi)

Virginia Woolf (single author)

C. S. Lewis
(single author)

 
wk 1

B. Sanderson's The Way of Kings (2010),
chps. 1-11

B. Sanderson's The Way of Kings (2010),
chps. 12-27

 M. Shelley's Frankenstein (1818, 1831), pp. 15-102 (letters I-IV & chps. 1-10 F. Herbert's Dune (1965), pp. 3-205 VW's Night and Day (1919), chps. 1-14 CSL's The Problem of Pain (1940), chps. 1-5 wk 1
wk 2 B. Sanderson's The Way of Kings (2010), chps. 28-42 M. Shelley's Frankenstein (1818, 1831), chps. 11-24 F. Herbert's Dune (1965), 206-407

VW's Night and Day (1919), chps. 15-25 / Saylor N, Bella W

 CSL's The Problem of Pain (1940), chps. 6-10 wk 2
wk 3 B. Sanderson's The Way of Kings (2010), chps. 43-57 O. Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), chps. 1-6 F. Herbert's Dune (1965), pp. 408-617

VW's Night and Day (1919), chps. 26-34 / Clara C, Sabrina C

   wk 3
wk 4 B. Sanderson's The Way of Kings (2010), chps. 58 - Epilogue O. Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), chps. 7-14 U. K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) VW's To the Lighthouse (1927), "The Window" & "Time Passes" / Sheridan R, Grace M CSL's The Screwtape Letters (1942), chps. 1-17 wk 4
wk 5 J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), chps. ____ O. Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), chps. 15-20 U. K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

VW's To the Lighthouse (1927), "The Lighthouse" / Sadie B, Laleh S

 CSL's The Screwtape Letters (1942), chps. 18-31 wk 5
wk 6 J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), chps. ____ D. DuMaurier's Rebecca (1938), chps. 1-9 O. S. Card's Ender's Game (1985), pp. 31-190

VW's Orlando (1928), chps. 1-3 / Saylor N, Clara C

 CSL's The Great Divorce (1945) wk 6
wk 7 J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), chps. ____ D. DuMaurier's Rebecca (1938), chps. 10-16 O. S. Card's Ender's Game (1985), pp. 191-368

VW's Orlando (1928), chps. 4-6 / Grace M, Sabrina C

CSL's The Magician's Nephew (1955), chps. 1-15

CSL's The Weight of Glory (1939-46), pp. 25-46

 wk 7
wk 8 Ursula K. LeGuin's Wizard of Earthsea (1968) D. DuMaurier's Rebecca (1938), chps. 17-21 M. Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003), pp. 3-184

VW's The Waves (1931), pp. 7-107 / Bella W, Sadie B

CSL's An Experiment in Criticism (1961), chps. 1-7

CSL's The Weight of Glory (1939-46), pp. 47-63

 wk 8
wk 9 R. Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice, pp. 1-224 D. DuMaurier's Rebecca (1938), chps. 22-27 M. Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003), pp. 185-261

VW's The Waves (1931), pp. 108-206 / Sheridan R, Laleh S

CSL's An Experiment in Criticism (1961), chps. 8-Epilogue

CSL's The Weight of Glory (1939-46), pp. 64-90

 wk 9
wk 10 R. Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice, pp. 225-448 G. Morrison's Batman: Arkham Asylum (1989), pp. 1-62, pp. 63-122 M. Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003), pp. 265-374

VW's The Waves (1931), pp. 207-97

CSL's A Grief Observed (1961)

 wk 10
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early impressionistic painting of dark storm clouds over pililared structure
Phaestumina Storm (1830-35)
J. M. W. Turner

 

 

 

Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu