Reading Schedule 1/11 to 5/11

January 14, 2011
James Joyce Society of Sarasota

Reading Agenda for January 18- May 18, 2011
Theme: Literary Genre of Modernism

Meetings held at North Library, in large meeting rm,1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 10 ;15 AM
Two texts which are the source for a number of selections and are easily ordered are:

Great German Short Stories, Dover Edition
The World’s Greatest Short Stories, Dover Edition
Many of the selections may also be found online at free e-books websites

January 19,
After an introduction to the concepts of the literary movement denoted as Modernism, discussion will focus on “Three Strangers” and “The Withered Arm”,
Short Stories by Thomas Hardy, (Wessex Tales). (library,online as well as Amazon, BN, etc.)
Feb 16
“Death in Venice”, by Thomas Mann, (Great German Short Stories) and “Path to the Cemetery”. by Thomas Mann ,(The World’s Greatest Short Stories)
March 2,
“How Old Timofei Died with a Song”, by Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Fortune Teller” Joachim M.M. de Assis ( The World’s Greatest Short Stories)
“Lieutenant Gusl”, by Arthur Shnitzler, (Great German Short Stories)
March 16
“The Prussian Officer” by DH Lawrence , “The Lady with the Toy Dog” by Anton Chekhov,
“Mr. and Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, Her son in Law”, by Luigi Pirandello,
The World’s Greatest Short Stories)
April 6
“Demian” by Herman Hesse
April 20
“A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka, , (The World’s Greatest Short Stories)
“In the Penal Colony” by Franz Kafka, (Great German Short Stories)
May 4,
“The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansefield,“The Mark on the Wall” by Virginia Woolf , Yasunari Kawabata, “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket, (The World’s Greatest Short Stories)
May 18
A film showing of “Maurice” by EM Forester and discussion.