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Marilynne Robinson
For more information contact us on: North America 855.414.1034 International +1 646.307.5567 [email protected] Marilynne Robinson Topics Best Selling and Award Winning Authors Travels From Bio Marilynne Robinson is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for "her grace and intelligence in writing." She is the author of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Robinson's nonfiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country. Robinson began teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991 and retired in the spring of 2016. In 2016, Robinson was named in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa. In March 2021, Oprah announced The Gilead Novels as Oprah's Book Club Picks. Oprah recognized Robinson as "one of our greatest living authors” and referred to The Gilead novels as "masterpieces". SPEECHES page 1 / 9 For more information contact us on: North America 855.414.1034 International +1 646.307.5567 [email protected] A Conversation with Marilynne Robinson Marilynne can speak to the craft of writing novels and her prolific writing career. BOOKS HARDCOVER JACK A Novel Farrar, Straus and Giroux Jack is Robinson’s fourth novel in this now-classic series. -
The Unforgettable, Heartbreaking Story of the Unlikely Friendship Between A
Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition: Summer Reading In keeping with the philosophy that each individual should be trained to the fullest realization of his/her capacities, the Advanced Placement English program enables interested students to realize their potential. AP Literature and Composition is designed to give the student experience in reading closely, thinking precisely, and writing analytically. Not only will we analyze craft and develop an appreciation of the beauty of language (celebrating how authors use words to create art), we will also use literature as a tool to analyze human nature and gain a deeper understanding of the world. We may not always have the opportunity to travel and discover exciting new places, and there are times in life when we struggle to find a reflection of ourselves in another, but literature allows us to connect, to discover, and to grow. To begin this exciting quest, I would like you to read The Kite Runner and a book of choice. I believe in the importance of creating both shared literary experiences and also providing choice, in seeking a curriculum that is meaningful, challenging, and relevant. It is my hope that we will push each other to reach our potential while being supportive and compassionate. I look forward to reading the many stories you will share and write in our course. I look forward to hearing your voice. Thank you for joining our AP Literature learning community. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini “The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. -
Addition to Summer Letter
May 2020 Dear Student, You are enrolled in Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition for the coming school year. Bowling Green High School has offered this course since 1983. I thought that I would tell you a little bit about the course and what will be expected of you. Please share this letter with your parents or guardians. A.P. Literature and Composition is a year-long class that is taught on a college freshman level. This means that we will read college level texts—often from college anthologies—and we will deal with other materials generally taught in college. You should be advised that some of these texts are sophisticated and contain mature themes and/or advanced levels of difficulty. In this class we will concentrate on refining reading, writing, and critical analysis skills, as well as personal reactions to literature. A.P. Literature is not a survey course or a history of literature course so instead of studying English and world literature chronologically, we will be studying a mix of classic and contemporary pieces of fiction from all eras and from diverse cultures. This gives us an opportunity to develop more than a superficial understanding of literary works and their ideas. Writing is at the heart of this A.P. course, so you will write often in journals, in both personal and researched essays, and in creative responses. You will need to revise your writing. I have found that even good students—like you—need to refine, mature, and improve their writing skills. You will have to work diligently at revising major essays. -
Names in Marilynne Robinson's <I>Gilead</I> and <I>Home</I>
names, Vol. 58 No. 3, September, 2010, 139–49 Names in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and Home Susan Petit Emeritus, College of San Mateo, California, USA The titles of Marilynne Robinson’s complementary novels Gilead (2004) and Home (2008) and the names of their characters are rich in allusions, many of them to the Bible and American history, making this tale of two Iowa families in 1956 into an exploration of American religion with particular reference to Christianity and civil rights. The books’ titles suggest healing and comfort but also loss and defeat. Who does the naming, what the name is, and how the person who is named accepts or rejects the name reveal the sometimes difficult relationships among these characters. The names also reinforce the books’ endorsement of a humanistic Christianity and a recommitment to racial equality. keywords Bible, American history, slavery, civil rights, American literature Names are an important source of meaning in Marilynne Robinson’s prize-winning novels Gilead (2004) and Home (2008),1 which concern the lives of two families in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa,2 in the summer of 1956. Gilead is narrated by the Reverend John Ames, at least the third Congregationalist minister of that name in his family, in the form of a letter he hopes his small son will read after he grows up, while in Home events are recounted in free indirect discourse through the eyes of Glory Boughton, the youngest child of Ames’ lifelong friend, Robert Boughton, a retired Presbyterian minister. Both Ames, who turns seventy-seven3 that summer (2004: 233), and Glory, who is thirty-eight, also reflect on the past and its influence on the present. -
A Too-Brief, Incomplete, Unalphabetized List of Must-Read
A Too-Brief, Incomplete, Unalphabetized List of Must-Read that You Might Not Have Been Taught or Otherwise Made to Read Novels and Short Story Collections Written in the 20th and 21st Centuries Saul Bellow: Henderson the Rain King, Humboldt’s Gift, The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog Grace Paley: Collected Stories Flannery O’Conner: Collected Stories (especially the story from A Good Man is Hard to Find) Evan Connell: Mrs. Bridge, Mr. Bridge Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita, Pale Fire Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man Mary McCarthy: The Group, The Company She Keeps Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day of the Locust Eudora Welty: Collected Stories Tess Slesinger: The Unpossessed Dagoberto Gilb: The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna Don DeLillo: End Zone, White Noise, Underworld Cormac McCarthy: Suttree, All the Pretty Horses, The Road, Blood Meridian Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, The Comforters, Aiding and Abetting Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go, The Unconsoled Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God Donald Barthelme: Sixty Stories, Forty Stories Thomas Pynchon: V, Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow Padgett Powell: Edisto, Edisto Revisited, Aliens of Affection Barry Hannah: Airships Steven Millhauser: Edwin Mullhouse, Martin Dressler Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist Heidi Julavits: The Effects of Looking Backwards John Cheever: The Stories of John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle Judy Budnitz: Nice Big American Baby, Flying Leap Lee K. Abbott: Love is the Crooked Thing Angela Carter: The Company of -
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Honors a Distinguished Work of Fiction by an American Author, Preferably Dealing with American Life
Pulitzer Prize Winners Named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction honors a distinguished work of fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. Chosen from a selection of 800 titles by five letter juries since 1918, the award has become one of the most prestigious awards in America for fiction. Holdings found in the library are featured in red. 2017 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 2016 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 2013: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson 2012: No prize (no majority vote reached) 2011: A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 2010:Tinkers by Paul Harding 2009:Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 2008:The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 2007:The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2006:March by Geraldine Brooks 2005 Gilead: A Novel, by Marilynne Robinson 2004 The Known World by Edward Jones 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Stephan Milhauser 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 1994 The Shipping News by E. Anne Proulx 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley -
Pulitzer Prize
1946: no award given 1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey 1944: Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin 1943: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair Pulitzer 1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow 1941: no award given 1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Prize-Winning 1938: The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand 1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 1936: Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis Fiction 1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson 1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller 1933: The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 1931 : Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes 1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge 1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 1927: Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield 1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (declined prize) 1925: So Big! by Edna Ferber 1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson 1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather 1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington 1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 1920: no award given 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington 1918: His Family by Ernest Poole Deer Park Public Library 44 Lake Avenue Deer Park, NY 11729 (631) 586-3000 2012: no award given 1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer 2011: Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 1977: No award given 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks 1974: No award given 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty 2004: The Known World by Edward P. -
Summer Reading List.Pages
Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School High School Summer Reading List 2019 You may read any book by an author on the list. Underlined selections are only for 9th and 10th graders. FICTION Adams, Richard Watership Down – a popular modern classic Allende, Isabel Daughter of Fortune – by celebrated Chilean novelist Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice – no one writes better than Jane Austen does Bauer, Joan Hope Was Here – 2001 Newbery Honor Book Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre – Jane is one of the great heroes in English fiction. Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights – unforgettable “Gothic” tale of love and revenge Buck, Pearl The Good Earth – acclaimed epic novel of life in pre-Communist China Carter, Forrest The Education of Little Tree – Native American life and wisdom Cather, Willa My Antonia – best-known novel by this Pulitzer Prize winner Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring – “great read,” about Vermeer and one of his models Chopin, Kate The Awakening – considered a radical novel in its time, still challenging today Clarke, Pauline The Return of the Twelves – fantasy/science fiction featuring the Bronte children Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim – one of the great novels of English literature, exciting, challenging Conroy, Patrick Beach Music – absorbing, thought-provoking modern tale Cooper, James Fenimore Last of the Mohicans – classic story of colonial America Cooper, Susan The Dark is Rising – 1974 Newbery Honor Book (read the whole series!) Creech, Sharon Walk Two Moons – 1995 Newbery Medal winner !1 Cushman, Karen Catherine, Called Birdy – 1995 Newbery -
A Modern Allegory of the Color Purple
Canadian Social Science Vol.1 No.1 May 2005 A Modern Allegory of The Color Purple ALLÉGORIE MODERNE DANS THE COLOR PURPLE Guo Deyan1 Abstract: Alice Walker became the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1983 for The Color Purple. Even though it has been severely attacked by some people for its nasty language, lesbian relationship and domestic violence, The Color Purple is still hailed as a classic book in exploring the pathos of black women in social context. The strength of the book mainly derives from the regeneration of the multitude of characters with the protagonist Celie in the forefront. Facing the overwhelmingly powerful patriarchal culture, Celie unresistingly places herself under the domination and authority of men, as revealed in her way of naming men, her fear of men and of God. While later through the wholesome influence of Sofia and mothering nurturing of Shug, Celie’s sense of ego is gradually awakened. She finally enters the world of creation. In return, the arrogant Shug and Amazon-like Sofia become more compassionate and gentle. While the black women enjoy their close bond and dearly selfhood, the black men as exemplified by Mr. ____and Harpo also go through the process of reexamination of their existence. They no longer view women as objects; instead they begin to acknowledge their equal status as human beings. So at the end of the book, both black men and women discover in themselves the ability to love and to be loved and learn to embrace the selfhood, sisterhood and brotherhood. -
2 Abstract in the Essay —William Kennedy's Ironweed: Francis Phelan's Purgatorial Journey Back Home“ I Intend to Show Th
Abstract In the essay “William Kennedy’s Ironweed: Francis Phelan’s Purgatorial Journey Back Home” I intend to show that William Kennedy has borrowed his narrative structure and symbolic language in the novel Ironweed from The Divine Comedy. I will also try to show how William Kennedy has used these allusions to enhance the imagery of Ironweed and the protagonist Francis Phelan’s wandering through the novel, and his return home. To accomplish this I will present a detailed comparative analysis of William Kennedy’s Ironweed and Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. I will begin by showing that Kennedy establishes the protagonist Francis Phelan as a Dante-like figure and a sinner who needs to go through purgatory to redeem himself. Moreover, Kennedy uses Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy’s landscape to enhance the imagery of a journey back home, and by showing that each chapter represents a different level on Mount Purgatory Kennedy makes Albany a symbol of the mountain itself. Details such as the mentioning of the seven deadly sins are also there to make the reader think of Dante and thereby reinforcing the image of The Divine Comedy’s landscape in Francis Phelan’s New York, Albany. I also demonstrate that Kennedy borrows his symbolic structure from Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. For example, the intricate ending of Ironweed where several parallels can be drawn to Purgatory and Paradise reinforces the impression of Francis Phelan’s happiness, that is, a reader who is familiar with The Divine Comedy will appreciate and understand Francis Phelan’s happiness and the journey he has accomplished even more. -
Connections, April 2016 University Library Roger Williams University
Roger Williams University DOCS@RWU Connections University Libraries 4-2016 Connections, April 2016 University Library Roger Williams University Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.rwu.edu/libnews Part of the Education Commons, and the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation University Library, "Connections, April 2016" (2016). Connections. 30. https://docs.rwu.edu/libnews/30 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Libraries at DOCS@RWU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Connections by an authorized administrator of DOCS@RWU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 4/10/2018 » 2016 » April RWU Learning Commons Home Announcements The Learning Commons Outreach & Discovery Programs & Exhibits Tech News Culture of the Book HOME » 2016 » APRIL April 2016 From the Nightstand: Professor Edward J. Delaney APRIL 29, 2016 2:22 PM Interview conducted by Brittany Parziale, Connections Intern Edward J. Delaney, Professor of Creative Writing and Editor of Mount Hope magazine, has taught at RWU since 1990. Current Reads Currently reading Literary Publishing in the 21st century edited by Wayne Miller, Kevin Prufer, and Travis Kurowski. This collection of narratives describes the transformation in the world of publishing brought about by technological developments, market pressures, and changing reading habits through a wide range of perspectives. http://rwulibraryconnect.org/2016/04/ 1/17 4/10/2018 » 2016 » April RWU Learning Commons “I am reading it to help with the literary publishing course I teach. But I also find it very interesting and insightful on a personal level.” As the editor of Mount Hope, the student run magazine operating out of Roger Williams University, Delaney finds himself gravitating to works about publishing and about the history of the modern publishing era. -
Geraldine Brooks, Historical Fiction and Australian Writers in the US
Geraldine Brooks, Historical Fiction and Australian Writers in the US ANNE PENDER UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE A number of Australian expatriate authors in the United States have made an impact on the American public in a variety of genres: Lily Brett, Geraldine Brooks, Peter Carey, Shirley Hazzard, Thomas Keneally, Jill Ker Conway, Sumner Locke Elliott, Robert Hughes, Kate Jennings, Christina Stead, Janette Turner Hospital and others. In addition, the experiences of these writers in the United States have informed their work in distinctive ways that have been important to Australian literature, and to Australian literary culture. Contemporary Australian authors such as Chloe Hooper and Nam Le have undertaken creative writing training in the US, and have returned to live in Australia. Over the last twenty years however, the globalisation of the book trade has not dissolved the concept of the expatriate writer, or removed the problems for writers linked to origin, readership, visibility, remuneration for, and recognition of their work. In fact, ironically, it seems that there is a renewed imperative for Australian writers to live outside Australia in order to gain access to a global readership and lucrative publishing opportunities. The success of high-profile expatriate writers in the US, such as Brooks and Carey, supports this claim. This article considers the historical fiction of Geraldine Brooks, who is, alongside Peter Carey, an exceptionally successful author with an immense readership in the US and across the world. Unlike Carey, however, Brooks is largely ignored by Australian critics. What follows explores Brooks’s fiction in the context of her career as a war correspondent, her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel March (2005), and the effect of her many years covering war and conflict on her work.