Irvine Valley College:  Online Literature Study of the School of Humanities and Languages

Literature 110 - Popular Literature

Spring 2013 - Ticket #62740 // Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, MFA, Instructor

Class runs from January 22, 2013 to May 23, 2013

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POPULAR LITERATURE CAN BE READILY DIVIDED INTO GENRES AND THE THEMES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE GENRES.  IN OUR STUDY OF POPULAR LITERATURE THIS SEMESTER, WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT SEVERAL GENRES AND READ SOME WONDERFUL BOOKS!  HERE IS A QUICK GUIDE TO THE UNITS AND THE READING IN THE COURSE.

Unit 1:  Introduction:  What is Popular Literature?

A Web Overview

January 23 - February 3, 2013

Unit 2:  Horrors!

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

February 3 - February 17, 2013

Unit 3:  Detective on the Beat

 The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

February 18 - March 3, 2013

Unit 4:  Enduring Crimes

The Lodger, Marie Belloc Lowndes

March 4 - March 17, 2013

NOTE:  March 18 - March 24 is SPRING BREAK

But you could use this time to start *Gone With the Wind*!!

Unit 5: The Lure of Romance

Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

[note - you need only to read the first 10 Chapters.]

March 25 - April 7, 2013

Unit 6: Cowboy Jamboree

Showdown at Yellow Butte, Louis L'Amour

April 8 - April 21, 2013

Unit 7:  Fantasy Adventures

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J. K. Rowling

April 22 - May 5, 2013

Unit 8:  Science Fiction and The Future

Neuromancer, William Gibson

May 6 - May 19, 2013

Unit 9:  Review and Sharing of Papers

May 20 - May 23, 2013

Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, MFA, your Instructor, is a Professor of English in the School of Humanities and Languages, Irvine Valley College, Irvine, California.

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