Archive for October, 2009

Poetics

CATTt, Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink October 25th, 2009

 

I am interested in the intersection between poetry and history. How does history make its path in a poetic work?
We rarely see history in a literary text since it is so hard to deal with. Perhaps poetry does not know how to say or utter history. …History simply smothers and squashes.
Yet some books show that one can remain poetic in the very midst of history. (110)

–Hélène Cixous, “Poetry, Passion, and History” (1985)

 
M 26-Oct     Jazz     (Chp. 6-10, pp.137-229)            (Tahara Franklin)

 
W 28-Oct      Silko: Ceremony      (Intro + through p.37)           (Laura Hampson)

 
F 30-Oct     Ceremony     (pp.38-85)            (Maria Tamayo)

 
                     Due: Response 4 (deadline: 11:59pm)

 
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Imagined Experience (Part II)

CATTt, Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink October 18th, 2009

 
 
M 19-Oct     Experiment–Part II

    from 07-Oct ( Greek etymologies)

      “catastrophe” = katastrephein
      {kata “to overturn” + strephein “turn”; or strophe “a turning”}

        = “reversal of what is expected” (originally in drama)

        Q. in what does a “turn” occur? (hint: EXP)

 
W 21-Oct     Morrison: Jazz     (through Chp 3, pp.4-87)            (Erin Gallagher)

F 23-Oct      Jazz     (Chp. 4-5, pp.89-135)            (Hillary Silvestri)
 
 

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Narrative Experience

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink October 9th, 2009

 
M 12-Oct      Essay Workshop

 
W 14-Oct      Essay Workshop * Note Schedule Revision (14-Oct)

 
F 16-Oct      No classes—Homecoming

      Due: Analytic Essay Analytic Essay Due Sun 18-Oct

     
     
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    Lêthê Dis-aster

    CATTt | Posted by Gary Hink October 5th, 2009

    (Audio)                      CBC    |    BBC    (original broadcasts, 16 Feb 1945)

    dresden

    Notes and Context for Wed 07-Oct

    When all is said, what remains to be said is the disaster. Ruin of words, demise, writing, faintness faintly murmuring: what remains without remains (the fragmentary). — Blanchot (33)

     
    “And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like Poo-tee-weet?” — Vonnegut (24)

     
     
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    So It Goes

    Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink October 3rd, 2009

     

     
     
     
    M 05-Oct Slaughterhouse Five     (through Chp 5; Caroline & Erin)
     
     
     
    W 07-Oct Slaughterhouse Five     (Chp. 6-8; Laura Navia)
     
     
     
    F 09-Oct Slaughterhouse Five    (Chp. 9-10; Audrey)


     
     
     

    F 09-Oct                    Due: Response 3 — Prompt
     
                                      Extra Credit for Resp 3. (due 12-Oct)
     

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