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		<title>Till We Have Faces</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cover of Till We Have Faces I just finished reading C.S. Lewis&#8216; story Till We Have Faces. I found it very enjoyable. I had thought it would be an allegory like The Pilgrim&#8217;s Regress, with lots of literary and classical allusions and references. I thought I would need to at least know the original story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #19 December 2nd, 2009: The Age of Innocence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia The next session will be on Dec. 2nd from 3:30-5:30. This will be the last meeting of the Informal Reading Group this year. For this session I’ve chosen 2 pages from a novel by American authoress Edith Wharton, “The Age of Innocence”, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Edith [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #18 November 25th, 2009: A Sense of Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[philosophy / theory of art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s session will be on a Sense of Place, and the text will be an extract from British author Martin Amis&#8217; book,  &#8221; Money&#8221; (1984). I will bring Japanese translations of the extract. The discussion will briefly include Romanticism and the Realism movement which followed it. Session #19 will be next week, December 2nd, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #12: July 22nd, 2009 &#8211; &#8220;The Catcher in the Rye&#8221; and teenage skaz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s topic is teenage skaz and the selected text is an excerpt from Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger. The story follows Holden Caulfield&#8216;s experiences in New York City in the days following his expulsion from Pencey Prep, a fictional college preparatory school in Pennsylvania. As I wrote in the previous post, This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #11: July 1st, 2009</title>
		<link>http://sheffnersweb.net/blogs/reading/english-fiction/session-11-july-1st-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arnold Bennett]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Today we discussed irony, and we read an extract from &#8220;Old Wives&#8217; Tales&#8221; by British author Arnold Bennett. It was not as difficult or challenging as Ayn Rand, which we have been reading for the past 3 sessions. However, the discussion was not quite as lively as in previous sessions. It seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #7: Defamiliarization</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 10:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte Brontë]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleopatra]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia In today&#8217;s session, we read an extract from Charlotte Bronte&#8216;s novel Villette. The scene is in an art museum. The heroine, Lucy Snowe, has been brought there by Dr. John Bretton, a handsome English doctor who has taken a brotherly interest in her. Dr. Bretton escorts her to various art museums but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #6: The Unreliable Narrator (and the epistolary novel) April 1st, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia In today&#8217;s session, we read an extract from Kazuo Ishiguro&#8216;s novel The Remains of the Day, as an example of &#8220;the unreliable narrator&#8221; technique. We also read an extract from Michael Frayn&#8216;s The Trick of It (1989), as an example of the epistolary novel. We had a long discussion about The Remains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #5: Names and naming</title>
		<link>http://sheffnersweb.net/blogs/reading/english-fiction/session-5-names-and-naming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[narrative voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalloway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Lodge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paul Auster]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by jpellgen via Flickr Session #5: Names and naming, March 17th, 2009 Texts for today&#8217;s session: How Far Can You Go? (1980) by David Lodge Nice Work (1988), by David Lodge City of Glass (1985), by Paul Auster. This is the first book in the New York Trilogy. In session #4, we read an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #4: Stream of Consciousness &amp; Interior Monologue</title>
		<link>http://sheffnersweb.net/blogs/reading/english-fiction/session-4-stream-of-consciousness-interior-monologue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[narrative voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalloway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Joyce]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leopold Bloom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mrs Dalloway]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cover of Mrs. Dalloway Session #4: Stream of Consciousness &#38; Interior Monologue, March 4th, 2009 Two texts for today: Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf Ulysses by James Joyce We read the first two paragraphs of &#8220;Mrs. Dalloway&#8221;, chosen to illustrate the &#8220;stream of consciousness&#8220;, and two short extracts from &#8220;Ulysses&#8221;, chosen to illustrate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Session #2: Author and narrator</title>
		<link>http://sheffnersweb.net/blogs/reading/english-fiction/session-2-author-and-narrator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[narrative voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[19th century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Bede]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Lodge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erving Goffman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[framing analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Eliot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intrusive narrator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurence Sterne]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy  Gentleman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image by P Wood via Flickr Session #2, February 4th, 2009. The texts used today were: The first paragraph of Adam Bede (1859)  by George Eliot an excerpt from &#8220;The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent&#8221; (1759-67) by Laurence Sterne, an excerpt from How Far Can You Go?? (1980) by David Lodge, and an [...]]]></description>
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