Please post your response to this week's assignment (through page 54 in James Joyce's Dubliners).
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A companion blog to "Introduction to Literature" at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Fall 2009.
If you liked...
- The 1987 film adaptation of "The Dead" starring Anjelica Houston.
- Dubliners you will like Joyce's novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Pride and Prejudice think about renting the odd but fun 2008 British tv mini-series "Lost in Austen." It follows the adventures of Amanda, a modern day British woman who finds a portal in her bathroom to the fictional world of Pride and Prejudice.
- Pride and Prejudice you will like Emma by Jane Austen.
- Pride and Prejudice you will like the 1995 BBC/A&E miniseries closely based on the book.
- Twelfth Night you might want to see the 1996 film version, starring Helena Bonham Carter as Olivia and Ben Kingsley as Feste.
- Twelfth Night you might like some of Shakespeare's other comedies, such as As you Like it or Much Ado about Nothing.
- The Namesake you might like another recent novel by Zadie Smith called White Teeth (2000).
- The Namesake you might like a couple of films with similar themes, East is East (1999), My Son the Fanatic (1999), and Bend it Like Bekham (2002).
- The Namesake you will like Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth: Stories
- The Namesake you will like Lahiri's pulizer prize winning Interpreter of Maladies
Reymon de Guzman said...
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of the the first paragraph in Dubliners?
November 8, 2009 8:52 PM
Tara Denley said...
Reading Response question for Dubliners:
What is the significance of repetition in the first nine stories of Dubliners?
Why is it that each story seems to end unfinished?
ReplyDelete-Montika White-
What is the significance of words from the first paragraph and onward?
ReplyDeleteHow are all the stories in Dubliners somehow connected?
ReplyDeleteHow are the roles of women significant in James Joyce's Dubliners?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of the opening paragraph?
ReplyDeleteWhat role does religion play throughout the book?
ReplyDelete-Jarvis Pete
Why did Eveline choose not to move to Buenos Ayres with Frank if her home life was as bad as she made it out to be?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of being "left hanging" at the end of each story?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the importance of referring back to the chapter, The Boarding House, using the quote, "Dublin is such a small city: everyone knows everyone else's business." If this is the case, has this helped the citizens of Dublin progress in any manner?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of snow in "The Dead"?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance in how Joyce just ends the stories with no real endings? Are readers meant to create their own ending?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of religion in "Grace"?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of clay symbolizing death in "Clay?"
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of James Joyce leaving the story open at the ending as if she wants the reader to imagine or mentally create a personal ending?
ReplyDeleteHow does the scene with the unconscience man in the beginning set up what is to happen in "Grace"?
ReplyDeleteIn 'Grace' what's the significance of Mr.Kernan falling down the stairs?
ReplyDelete-Montika White-
In Counterparts how does Farrington's personality set him apart from all of the other characters in Dubliners?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of openendedness. . . Is that a word?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the role of religion in "Grace"?
ReplyDeleteHow is the the style in which the stories are written important to the structure of the book?
ReplyDelete-Jarvis Pete
What is the significance of Michael Furey's character and in what ways does he develop the plot? Is he helpful in uniting Dubliners in some way?
ReplyDeletehow is Dublin seen as a jail?
ReplyDeleteWhy wouldn't someone want to get out of Dublin when given the chance?
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