At 15:09 4/10/97 -0500, you wrote:
>dear all:
>
>i'm looking for two books. two books that i've never read.
>
>i'm teaching a class where i'd like to use a comparable book to
>_Frankenstein_ ... i'd like it to be both sci-fi and fem AND not
>extraordinarily difficult (like, say, Le Guin's _Dispossessed_)(*gasp*)...
>
Have you considered _Dracula_? It's later than _Frankenstein_,
not very difficult, and has at least ONE strong woman character.
>
>my theme (or, as we silly english teachers like to call it, "body of
>discourse") is going to be called something along the lines of "Beauty and
>the Beast" -- i think i'm going to use _Beowulf_ together with _Grendel_
>...
>
Still sounds like _Dracula_ to me. (More fantasy than sf, perhaps?)
>the second book i'm looking for is for a class on family... i'd like to,
>again, use a sci-fi fem book that i haven't read before: one that has an
>unusual family... i may be using _Fried Green Tomatoes_ and _Momaday_ and
>_I am One of You Forever_
>
>any ideas?
Judith Moffett's _Pennterra_, if you can get it. Boy are the families
DIFFERENT!
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>thanks,
>
>-lissa bloomer
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>if you're wearing pants, thank my great great great grandmother.
>
>elisabeth bloomer
>instructor, english
>virginia tech
>ebloomer@vt.edu
>540.231.2445
>
Martha Bartter
Truman State University
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