Wednesdays 9:30 – 11:30 AM
October 1 through November 19, 2004
Kendal at Hanover-Training Room
No writer in our national literature captures the Colonial Puritan mind better than Nathaniel Hawthorne. No one in American literature captures the mind of the south better than William Faulkner.
Separated in time by a century and geographically by hundreds of miles, both men still speak significantly to us today about the complexities of the human heart, about New England’s Puritan heritage, and about the impact of the Civil War on the mind of the south.
In this course we will read selected stories by both men, as well as Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables, and Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and “The Bear.” Inexpensive paperback editions of their work are readily available in all bookstores and second hand book shops. Xerox copies of the stories by both men will be available at ILEAD headquarters at a small cost.
The reading in this course is extensive and, in Faulkner’s case, often difficult. Please make allowances for this. It’s important to come to every class having read the assignments.
Class format: some lectures and lots of class discussion.
Class is limited to 20 members.
JOE MEDLICOTT is a Dartmouth graduate, with an MA from Trinity College and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He has taught English at several universities; prior to his retirement he was Master of English at Deerfield Academy.
