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study package: secondary (Batoche) and
post-secondary classes - English Literature, Poetry, Drama, Women
and Gender Courses, Canadian Studies, Post-Colonial Studies
list of books used as university texts:
Clever
As Paint: The Rossettis In Love
Dora: A Case of Hysteria
Poems For MenWho Dream of Lolita
Batoche
and the Open University textbook & theatre anthology
Mythic Women/ Real Women
Faber & Faber 2000
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Clever As Paint:
The Rossettis in Love
with original music by Elizabeth Parker
Introduction by Beth Chatten
published by Playwrights Canada Press
distributed in Europe by Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 0-88754-552-1
http://www.puc.ca
in North America: mailto:cdplays@interlog.com
in Europe: mailto:info@nickhernbooks.demon.co.uk
Women & Gender Studies, 19th
century, England, art history, stage play, black comedy, satire,
humour, drama, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, artists, women's roles,
Elizabeth Siddal, William Morris, Gabriel Rossetti, Arts &
Crafts Movement, Malory, Swinburne, Burne Jones, Jane Morris,
supernatural, séances, suicide, post-natal depression, love, grief,
jealousy, adultery.
Suggested historian: Jan Marsh
Introduction
by Beth Chatten
Compare: Tom Stoppard: The Invention of Love
Howard Brenton: Bloody Poetry
Caryl Churchill: Stanley
"Love among the artists - specifically the
Pre-Raphaelites -mercilessly dissected by Kim Morrissey, who
debunked Freud very efficiently and wittily in her play Dora a
few years back"
-- Robert Hanks, The Independent.
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Dora:
A Case of Hysteria
Introduction by Lizbeth Goodman
published by Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 1-85459-295-5
mailto:info@nickhernbooks.demon.co.uk
in North America: mailto:cdplays@interlog.com
Women & Gender Studies, 20th
Century History, Freud, stage play, hysteria, black comedy, satire,
drama, unreliable narrator, hysteria, psycho-analysis, "Dora
Case Study," child abuse, transference, child-adult, seduction,
sexuality, feminism, Lacan, Cixous.
Comparison text: Hélène Cixous's Portrait of Dora
Introduction
by Lizbeth Goodman
academic
article by Tobias Döring
Suggested reading : In Dora's Case (ed Charles Bernheimer
& Claire Kahane
compare: Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House
Terry Johnson: Hysteria
Nicholas Wright: Mrs Klein
"an important addition to the Canadian
dramatic canon and to the body of contemporary playwriting by women"
-- Rita Much, Canadian Theatre Review
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Poems
For Men
Who Dream of Lolita
published by Coteau Books
ISBN: 1-55050-029-5
http:coteau.unibase.com
mailto:coteau@coteau.unibase.com
Women and Gender Studies, Womens
Studies, 20th Century, North America, poetry, child abuse,
incest, survivor, point-of-view, unreliable narrator, sexual
politics, sexuality, child-birth, adolescence, Nabokov, historical
re-examination.
Required reading: Vladamir Nabokov's Lolita
Introduction: Lizbeth Goodman
Compare: Sarah Daniels: Masterpieces
Paula Vogel: How I Learned to Drive
Jim Garrard: Cold Comfort
"brilliant and disturbing"
-- John Osborne, editor, bête noir
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Batoche
published by Coteau Books
ISBN: 0-919926-916
with archival photographs and maps
e-mail:
coteau@coteau.unibase.com
http:
coteau.unibase.com
Canadian Studies, Canadian History,
Military History, Post-Colonial Studies, Multi-Cultural Studies,
Secondary School, Grades 9-12, 19th century, poetry, history,
politics, self-government, self-determination, leadership, Métis,
Wood Cree, Plains Cree, French-Canadian, Saskatchewan, prairie,
1885, NorthWest Resistance, North West Territories, Louis Riel,
Margeurite Riel, Gabriel Dumont.
Suggested historians: Diane Payment, G.F. Stanley,
George Woodcock.
compare: Margaret Atwood: Journals of Susanna
Moodie
Gwendolyn McEwen: The T.E. Lawrence Poems
Michael Ondaatje: Billy the Kid
"Using her skills as a researcher, dramatist
and poet,
Kim Morrissey brings to life the once silent pages of our history
with a clear and simple eloquence."
-- Lorna Crozier
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Comparative
Themes
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