Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature

education-and-formation

• Between two covers, novels render visible the passages of life, the forming and deforming of individuals. We are not equipped to get this view on our own.

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• I have posited semiotics — the interpretation of signs — as the core challenge of all reading, indeed, of all education and all experience.

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mind-and-cognition

• These early fictions teach us that novels are shape-shifters — the life story told via journalism, reflexivity, or letters exchanged between seducers and victims.

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• Joyce tells us that life isn't linear. Ulysses delights in mixing the inside world of thought and feeling with the physical stimuli of the outside world.

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self-and-identity

• Faulkner captures a world of endless flux where no forms or containers hold — language itself severed from the things it names.

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• The human body can be subject to enormous changes via age or illness or deformity. Does Kafka's story speak to this issue?

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