M 07-Dec Due: Final Project — “Resonance Assemblage” (checkpoint)
- Workshop / “Studio” class
“Stage 1″ Checkpoint instructions here.
W 09-Dec (no class)
- Due: Final Project — (9pm finalized / online)
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“Truth depends on an encounter with something
that forces us to think and to seek the truth.” (14)
“if the resonance has both objective and subjective conditions,
what it produces is of an altogether different nature:
the Essence, the spiritual Equivalent….that breaks with the subjective chain.” (154)
— Deleuze, Proust and Signs (1972)
M 30-Nov Foer: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (through p. 173)
(Laura Hampson & Tahara Franklin)
W 02-Dec Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (pp. 174-259)
(Krystal Sardinas & Paige Miller)
- Due: Project Proposal Update (revised/finalized; 7pm, on blog)
(counts as blog entry; add Foer to your “poetics inventory”)
→ Notes from class discussion (plus reminders and clarifications)
F 04-Dec Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (pp. 267-326) (Sarah Zimmerman)
- plus: (required): “Mystory” excerpts by Ulmer (PDF)
M 07-Dec Due: Final Project — “Resonance Assemblage” (checkpoint / partial)
“The project is to learn to write with patterns that function
more like music than like concepts.” (91)— Ulmer, Heuretics
“For what one lacks access to from experience one will have no ear. ”
— Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
Final Project: “Resonance Assemblage”
Informal Proposal — due Friday 27-Nov
— (contact me if you need to post on Saturday, as I am replying in queue)
suggested reading: “Mystory” excerpts by Ulmer (PDF)
Review Experiment, especially CATTt
(and notes from 09 & 23 Nov classes;
have you updated your “Analogy” category inventory?)
Note: The following prompt is in addition to updating your “inventory” (required) with specific lessons and techniques from the novels, which is part of the project proposal; we’ll update one last time next week with Foer’s poetics.
For this week’s blog entry (due Friday),
exercise practicing a generative method and mode of thinking crucial for the final project,
following Monday’s creative writing entry: intuitive, inventive, and reflexive (personal).
“We should not be satisfied with either biography or bibliography;
we must reach a secret point where the anecdote of life and the aphorism of thought
amount to one and the same thing” (The Logic of Sense 128).— Deleuze (via Ulmer; citing Nietzsche’s method for invention).
two prompts and examples below…
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A) “Emblem” (examples)
B) “Signature Theory” (example)
M 23-Nov Due: Response 6 — Part I (1:55pm) Creative Prompt
- — Part II: Analysis of Classmate’s Entry (due 11:59pm). Prompt
- Extra Credit (optional) Analytic Response — Prompt
“The next story I wrote was The Crying of Lot 49,
which was marketed as a ‘novel,’ and in which I seem
to have forgotten most of what I thought I’d learned up until then.”
– Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner, 1984.
| M 16-Nov Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 (through Chapter 3) Pynchon Wiki: Annotations (Laura Navia & Audrey Bannon) |
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W 18-Nov Crying of Lot 49 (Chp. 4-5) (Anna Bernstein) |
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F 20-Nov Crying of Lot 49 (Chapter 6) plus Lot 49 Short Film (Maria Tamayo) |
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M 23-Nov Due: Response 6
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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)
