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In this course, we are going to read Michael Cunningham's novel THE HOURS (awarded both the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1999 Pen/Faulkner Award) from which a famous film with the same title was recently made. We will analyze the British and American characters, the narrative structure, and thematic ideas such as duty, love, friendship, family, sexuality, physical and mental welfare, suicide, and the meaning of life. In order to improve listening and reading comprehension, we will watch and listen to a video of the film and discuss it. Practicing different roles while expressively reading aloud the screenplay will help familiarize students with conversational English, including colloquialisms. We will also explore aesthetic appreciations and evaluations of Cunningham's novel, which focuses on the English novelist Virginia Woolf and ways in which her own novel MRS. DALLOWAY is reflected in the later lives of other people. Students planning to take this course are urged to read MRS. DALLOWAY either in English or Japanese translation before the class begins.
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