“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 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
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M 23-Nov Due: Response 6
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“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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