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Option 2

Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

Film: The Big Sleep, directed by Howard Hawks

Christopher Isherwood, Berlin Stories

Film: Cabaret, directed by Bob Fosse

Isak Dineson, Out of Africa

Film: Out of Africa, directed by Sydney Pollack

W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

Film: Field of Dreams, directed by Phil Alden Robinson

Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption

Film: The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont

 

Inspired By . . .  ~ 2-3 sessions each

This series pairs classics and their critically acclaimed, contemporary companion pieces – proof that every good idea deserves a second go-round.

            

Option 1                                                               

Shakespeare, King Lear                                     

Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres                        

Film version of A Thousand Acres                     

Option 2

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Michael Cunningham’s The Hours

Film version The Hours

Option 3

Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

Marc Estrin, Insect Dreams

 

Native American Literature ~ 4 Sessions

These titles include fiction, myth, poetry, and personal narrative – and represent some of the finest work by Native writers since the renaissance of American Indian writing in the 1970s.

N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

Joy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky: Poems

Smoke Signals (Film directed by Chris Eyre, based on short stories by Sherman Alexie)

 

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