Posts Tagged ‘WWII’

W.A.S.T.E.

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink November 15th, 2009

 
“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)
 

 
   

W 18-Nov      Crying of Lot 49 (Chp. 4-5)
                       (Anna Bernstein)
 

 
   

F 20-Nov      Crying of Lot 49 (Chapter 6)
                      plus Lot 49 Short Film
 
                       (Maria Tamayo)
 

 

 
 
M 23-Nov    Due: Response 6
 
 
 
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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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So It Goes

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink October 3rd, 2009

 

 
 
 
M 05-Oct Slaughterhouse Five     (through Chp 5; Caroline & Erin)
 
 
 
W 07-Oct Slaughterhouse Five     (Chp. 6-8; Laura Navia)
 
 
 
F 09-Oct Slaughterhouse Five    (Chp. 9-10; Audrey)


 
 
 

F 09-Oct                    Due: Response 3Prompt
 
                                  Extra Credit for Resp 3. (due 12-Oct)
 

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