Hi Class,

Sorry about the link to Young Goodman Brown. I’ve replaced it with a local PDF.

 

Remember: NO CLASS ON MONDAY, OCT 12

For Wednesday:

1—review “Prologue to Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison

2—Read “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

3—Read “The Enormous Radio” by John Cheever (link fixed)

4—Read “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury

5—take notes on the characters that you want to write about in Midterm Essay. It will help to take a few minutes and sketch out why you think a certain pair will make a good comparison. Then, it will help to identify those scenes in which the characters do something to draw attention to their similarities and differences. Next, it will help to identify those gothic terms that are easily applied to your characters, such as: liminality, Spirit of Perverseness, the Central Gothic Irony, redemption, allegory, gothic elements, fantastic uncanny (there are other terms).

See everybody on Wednesday.

Best,

Prof. Scanlan