Good afternoon!
Today we will review the story pieces distributed last week, "The Prodigal Son" and those by Guy de Maupassant. As we have many pieces yet to cover from both handouts and my posts, we'll cover as many as we can, representing a range of 19th and 20th century romantic and modernist viewpoints.
I will return essay 2, graded, and the extra credit work on the various examples of irony discovered in the stories included in the first week's handout selections. Not a very recent story here (2014), but an ironic one, about a former teacher and his friend whose argument over the relative merits of prose and poetry grew murderous. We cannot assume that literature makes us better people, I guess!
Note: If you have selected the piece for recitation you can earn extra credit points by giving it a practice run before the class and calling for feedback. *-*
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