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I like the idea of the reading path or cluster.  In addition to canons or course syllabi, we could make lists of books that are good to read together in order to understand something central to feministsf.  But this is kind of a different idea than a reading list based on a theme. Each path would be like a guided tour... "read this, then this, then this, then think about this other book." 
Reading paths, or clusters, are guided tours, or lists of inter-referencing texts.  


Or, for some books, "in order to understand this book, you probably should have read the following..."  For example, to "get" Vonda MacIntye's "Little Faces" or Lois McMaster Bujold's later books in the Vorkosigan series, I think you need a background in space opera and romance novels. This will help us to define a genre: the genre isn't a canonical list of the best examples of some idea - it's a sort of cloud or field in which we draw lines of connection.
For instance, a path might be a guided tour on a particular theme or idea: An evolving history of emblematic representations of the woman warrior for instance.  Or following the influence and intertextual conversations within books; for instance, Joanna Russ' [[The Two of Them]] references Kate Wilhelm's [[The Clewiston Test]]; Russ' work was in turn referenced by David Brin's [[Glory Season]]. Or, culminating in understanding a particular work that is dense with other literary and historical references.
 
== List of Reading Paths & Clusters ==
 
(to be developed by some enterprising & widely-read people)
 
 
See also: [[Category:Reading lists]] | [[Carl Brandon Society]]
 
[[Category:Works]]
[[category:Criticism and scholarship]]

Latest revision as of 13:03, 11 November 2010

Reading paths, or clusters, are guided tours, or lists of inter-referencing texts.

For instance, a path might be a guided tour on a particular theme or idea: An evolving history of emblematic representations of the woman warrior for instance. Or following the influence and intertextual conversations within books; for instance, Joanna Russ' The Two of Them references Kate Wilhelm's The Clewiston Test; Russ' work was in turn referenced by David Brin's Glory Season. Or, culminating in understanding a particular work that is dense with other literary and historical references.

List of Reading Paths & Clusters

(to be developed by some enterprising & widely-read people)


See also: | Carl Brandon Society

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