Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 15:54:01 -0600 (CST)
From: "John V. Knapp" <tb0jvk1-AT-corn.cso.niu.edu>
Subject: Thanks for Literary Reading Suggestions and Family Systems (fst)


Hi folks --

A bout of the 3 day flu has delayed my thanking all of you who replied in
very helpful fashion.  I should not be but am always amazed at the talent
"out there" of literary people who read widely and sensitively.  Some of
you asked for the reading list I have tentatively compiled, so please see
below.  A few of those very recent works recommended I have not yet read,
but will place on the list (it's tentative anyway) and fully intend to
read them early in the summer.  The list ranges beyond (and before)
modernism, but most of it should be recognizable.  If anything further
comes to mind, by all means send it along as I am particularly interested
in more examples by so-called hyphenated authors (Anglo-Indian;
Black-American, etc).

As I may have mentioned at the outset, so many good suggestions (O'Neill;
Morrison; Hong Kingston; Faulkner; Miller, etc.), have already been
written about (or taught) by that smallish coterie of people interest in
fst and literature that I feared we were running out of immediately
recognizable resources; clearly, I was foolish to think so.  So thank you
one and all for your many suggestions.

Here is (or will be) the tentative course list: 

**** Theoretical Works *******:

*Reading the Family Dance:  Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literary
	Studies*  (U. of Delaware P, due out in May 2003).  Co-edited by 
	Ken Womack and me.

and Selections from ******** :

Essays in *Style*  31.2 (Summer 1997). Family Systems Issue.
    Co-edited by Ken Womack and me.

Knapp, John V.  *Striking at the Joints: Contemporary Psychology and
	Literary Criticism* (UP of America, 1996).

Ozment, Steven. *Ancestors:  The Loving Family in Old Europe.* Harvard UP,
	2001.

Sulloway, Frank J.  *Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and
	Creative Lives.*  Vintage, 1996.

	***************************************

****** Literary works (probably selecting three or four of the following):

1)  Mary Butts'  *Ashe of Rings*

2)  Shakespeare, *King Lear*

3)  Melville,  *Pierre, or The Ambiguities*

4)  Waugh,  *Brideshead Revisited*

5)  Michael Frayn, *Spies*

6)  Ford Madox Ford, *The Good Soldier*
    
7)  Jonathan Franzen's *The Corrections*

8)  James Joyce, *The Dead*

9)  selected stories by A. E. Coppard, Rosamund Lehmann, Angela Carter,
	Tillie Olsen, etc.

10)  Joanna Trollope,  *The Rector's Wife*

11)  Ross Macdonald, *Underground Man*

12)  ?



Thank you all again,

JVK


John V. Knapp

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