“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)
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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M 19-Oct Experiment–Part II
from 07-Oct ( Greek etymologies)
“catastrophe” = katastrephein
{kata “to overturn” + strephein “turn”; or strophe “a turning”}
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)
“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
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M 07-Sep No classes— Labor Day
“The city seen from the Queensboro bridge…”
W 09-Sep Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (through Chapter 4) (Caroline Geist)
Review Abbott Chp. 6 for Gatsby discussion.
Due: Second blog entry (Wed. night; resume normal blog schedule)
F 11-Sep Gatsby (Chp. 5-6) (Hillary Silvestri)
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M 14-Sep Gatsby (Chp. 7-9) plus Cambridge / Narrative Chp 7-8
(Audrey Bannon) & (Jeff Rudderman)
W 16-Sep Cambridge / Narrative Chapters 10 & 12 (plus Gatsby overview)
F 18-Sep Cambridge / Narrative Chapters 11 & 14
Due: Response 1 — Prompt
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