Quest for Self (Course)

Course Description

Quest for Self is an advanced (grades 11-12) course which explores the perennial quest for the self through the special perspective provided by literature. The literary perspective may be supplemented by materials from other arts or disciplines.

Note: Although this course may cover works considered to be "coming of age" stories or novels, this is not a course in the bildungsroman.

Course Materials

Novels

• Banks, Russell. Rule of the Bone.
• Hornby, Nick. About a Boy.

Short Stories

• Boswell, Robert. "Glissando."
• Canin, Ethan. "Star Food."
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Bernice Bobs Her Hair."
• Updike, John. "Son."