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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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