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Posted by Gary Hink
November 25th, 2009
“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?)
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Posted by Gary Hink
November 24th, 2009
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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“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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M 09-Nov read:
W 11-Nov No classes—Veterans Day
Due: Response 5 — Prompt (deadline 11:59pm)
F 13-Nov EGO Conference: see schedule below.
Due: Blog Entry, “Inventory” about lessons thus far; see more below.
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