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
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“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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“Spinoza’s ethics has nothing to do with a morality; he conceives it as an ethology, that is, as a composition of fast and slow speeds, of capacities for affecting and being affected on this plane of [Nature]” (125).
–”you do not know beforehand what good or bad you are capable of…what a body or a mind can do, in a given encounter, a given arrangement, a given combination (125).
–Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
M 02-Nov Ceremony (through p.186 ) (Jessica Brousseau & Phil Cafaro)
W 04-Nov Ceremony (through end) (Eric Roe & Jake Jacob)
F 06-Nov No class (away at conference)
Due: Blog entry (Friday this week)
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(Audio) CBC | BBC (original broadcasts, 16 Feb 1945)
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)
“By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me.
I sizzled in his blue volts like a desert prophet.”– Plath, “The Hanging Man” (1960)
At work in novels is “a new logic, definitely a logic, but one that grasps the innermost depths of life and death without leading us back to reason. The novelist has the eye of a prophet, not the gaze of a psychologist” (82).
– Deleuze, “Bartleby, or the Formula” (1989)
M 21-Sep Plath: The Bell Jar (through Chp. 9) (Sarah Zimmerman)
”Plath’s Life and Career” (Illinois)
W 23-Sep The Bell Jar (Chp. 10-14) (Krystal Sardinas)
plus poems (optional / select) — see below. cf. List: all poems (Stanford)
F 25-Sep The Bell Jar (Chp. 15-20) (Jessica Brousseau)
plus (required):
“Ariel” (1962); “Daddy” (1962); & “Lady Lazarus” (1962)
Due: Response 2 — Prompt
