• First draft Review (Heather Nova)
  • Reread Mousetrap and Inspector Hound, plus look up info on Roger Ackroyd again (for Tuesday)
  • prepare presentation for Wednesday
  • look up info on Dorothy L. Sayers and Gaudy Night for presentation (March 8)
  • Start reading Call for the dead
  • Response paper on Agatha Christie for Tuesday?
  • read "Why Do People Read Detective Stories?", New Yorker, October 14, 1944;
  • read "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd: A Second Report on Detective Fiction", New Yorker, June 20, 1945; http://www.crazyoik.co.uk/workshop/edmund_wilson_on_crime_fiction .htm
  • read Wilson, Edmund. "Mr. Holmes, They Were the Footprints of a Gigantic Hound." Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties. New York: Vintage, 1962. 266-274. Print. (On Collegeplank)
  • Read Grossvogel, David. "Agatha Christie: Containment of the Unknown." The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory. Ed. Glenn W. Most and William W. Stowe. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. 253-265. Print. (Collegeplank)
  • read W.H. Auden, ‘The Guilty Vicarage’ (1948), in The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays (London: Faber, 1963) http://harpers.org/archive/1948/05/the-guilty- vicarage/
feb 15 2016 ∞
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