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In addition to the books selected for Female Protagonists project, we will also read and discuss Pynchon’s, Against The Day, and Vollmann’s, The Rainbow Stories, as listed below.
January 4 – 31, 2016
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf – 1915 - Rachel Vinrace
Optional: Melymbrosia – Virginia Woolf – completed 1912/published posthumously 1981 – an early version of The Voyage Out
February 1 – March 6 - Four Greek Plays
February 1 - 14
Lysistrata – Aristophanes – 411 BC – Lysistrata, Athenian woman
February 8 - 21
The Trojan Women (The Women of Troy) – Euripides – 415 BC – Hecabe, widow of King Priam; Cassandra, Andromache, and Helen
February 15 - 28
Medea – Euripides – 431 BC – Medea, wife of Jason
February 22 – March 6
Antigone – Sophocles – 441 BC – Antigone, daughter of Oedipus
February 29 – March 13
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories– Angela Carter – 1979
March 14 – April 10
Emma – Jane Austen – 1815 – Emma Woodhouse
April 11 – May 8
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë – 1847 – Jane Eyre
April 18 – June 19
Against The Day – Thomas Pynchon - 2006
May 9 – 22
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne – 1850 – Hester Prynne
May 23 – June 12
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert – 1856 – Emma Bovary
June 13 – July 3
Mildred Pierce – James M. Cain – 1941 – Mildred Pierce
July 4 – 17
Beauty and Sadness – Yasunari Kawabata – 1961 – Otoko Ueno, artist, and Keiko, her protegé and lover
July 18 – 31
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath – 1963 – Esther Greenwood
August 1 - 14
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison – 1970 - Pecola Breedlove
August 15 - 28
The Stain – Rikki Ducornet – 1984 – Charlotte
August 29 – October 2
The Rainbow Stories – William T. Vollmann – 1989
September 5 – October 2
The Broom of the System – David Foster Wallace – 1987 - Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman
October 3 - 16
Eva Luna – Isabel Allende – 1987 – Eva Luna
October 17 - 30
My Phantom Husband – Marie Darrieussecq – 1996
October 31 – November 27
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood – 1988 - Elaine Risley, artist
November 28 – December 4
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo – 2001 – Lauren Hartke, artist
December 5 - 31
The Blazing World – Siri Hustvedt – 2014 - Harriet Burden, artist