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Comments on: Humanities scholar shares cultural knowledge with Missouri S&T and Rolla community https://news.mst.edu/2020/08/humanities-scholar-shares-cultural-knowledge-with-missouri-st-and-rolla-community/ Your source for the latest from Rolla Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:45:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 By: Delia Croessmann https://news.mst.edu/2020/08/humanities-scholar-shares-cultural-knowledge-with-missouri-st-and-rolla-community/#comment-246652 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:45:58 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=33760#comment-246652 In reply to Worth Hayes.

Mr. Hayes,

Thank you for your interest. Below is the reading list of pandemic literature addressed in Dr. Lathers’ NPR interview.

Al-Malaika, Nazik, “Cholera,” poem, Iraq, about plague in Egypt in 1947
Alma, C.C. The Little Dog in the Big Plague.
Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake.
—. The Year of the Flood.
Bellatin, Mario. The Beauty Salon, 1994
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron (Intro. to First Day)
Brooks, Geraldine. Year of Wonders, 2001.
Brooks, Max. World War Z
Camus, Albert, The Plague. La Peste (1947), Trans. Robin Buss.
Chen, Mike. A Beginning at the End
Cline, Ernest. Ready Player One.
Crichton, Michael. The Andromeda Strain
Cronin, Justin. The Passage.
Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year, 1722.
Giono, Jean. The Horseman on the Roof. (Le Hussard sur le toit, 1951) (and film)
Heller, Peter. The Dog Stars
Kasichke, Lauren. In a Perfect World
Keller, Teddy. “The Plague,” 1961.
King, Stephen, The Stand
London, Jack, “The Plague Ship” (short story)
London, Jack, “The Scarlet Plague” (novella)
London, Jack, “The Unparalleled Invasion” (short story)
Luknavich, Lydia. The Book of Joan
Ma, Ling. Severance
Mandel, Emily St. John. Station Eleven
Mann, Thomas. “Death in Venice.” (Visconti film)
Manzoni, Alessandro. The Betrothed (1840-42)
Matheson, Richard. I Am Legend (1954)
Maxwell, William. They Came Like Swallows
Mullen, Thomas. The Last Town on Earth.
Norton, Andre. Plague Ship.
O’Nan, Stewart. A Prayer for the Dying
Pahmuk, Orhan. Nights of Plague (forthcoming)
Poe, Edgar Allan, “Masque of the Red Death”
Poe, Edgar Allan, “King Pest” (1835)
Porter, Katherine Ann. Pale Horse. Pale Rider.
Power, Rory. Wilder Girls (YA)
Procopius, (l. 500-565 CE) on plague of Justinian in his History of the Wars, Book II. 22
Saramago, José, Blindness, 1995
Shelley, Mary. The Last Man
Stifter, Adalbert, “Granite” (novella) (In Colourful Stones, 1853)
Vandermeer, Jeff. Annihilation
Vargas, Fred. Have Mercy on us All, 2003. Trans. from the French by David Bellos (Pars vite et reviens tard, 2001). Also film Have Mercy on us all (AKA Seeds of Death), dir. Régis Wargnier, 2007.
Walker, Karen Thompson. The Dreamers
Whitehead, Colson. Zone A
Willis, Connie. Doomsday Book, 1992.
Wright, Lawrence. The End of October, 2020
Thucydides
Ibn al-Wardi, “An Essay on the Report of the Pestilence,” 1348. (Syria)
Wilder Girls
Ibn Abi al-Dunya, The Book of Pestilences, 9th century, Iraq (medical)
Poem: Night Visitor, the ode by Iraqi-Syrian poet al-Mutannabi (915-965) to fever, is widely considered one the masterpieces of classical Arabic poetry.

Delia Croessmann

]]> By: Worth Hayes https://news.mst.edu/2020/08/humanities-scholar-shares-cultural-knowledge-with-missouri-st-and-rolla-community/#comment-246480 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:52:34 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=33760#comment-246480 Please send me reading list on pandemics aired during interview on STL NPR radio.

]]> By: Luce Myers https://news.mst.edu/2020/08/humanities-scholar-shares-cultural-knowledge-with-missouri-st-and-rolla-community/#comment-231307 Wed, 02 Sep 2020 21:46:27 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=33760#comment-231307 What an awesome journey of studies and accolades! Dr. Marie, you might be interested in the International Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, if you are not already a member. (SCBWI)
Welcome to Missouri S&T! What an asset of depth and diversity you bring.
Luce Myers

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