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Our American Literature: June 2012
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012. The exam (Wed., 6/13, 9:30 AM). On the exam, you will identify 10 passages (authors, rough dates), you will write an interpretive paragraph (with suavely handled quotes) about one of them, and you will draw a cartoon inspired by one of them. You will also read a short story and write a paragraph about it. There will be a brief extra credit section as well. Friday, June 8, 2012. Identify This, part V. Identify This, Part IV. Don't bring this great sin on your soul! Remember, Christ...
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Our American Literature: The exam (Wed., 6/13, 9:30 AM)
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012. The exam (Wed., 6/13, 9:30 AM). On the exam, you will identify 10 passages (authors, rough dates), you will write an interpretive paragraph (with suavely handled quotes) about one of them, and you will draw a cartoon inspired by one of them. You will also read a short story and write a paragraph about it. There will be a brief extra credit section as well. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Documents site; "Your Antonia" and "Your Eyes" blogs. Our Song of Solomon. Wed, May 2.
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Our American Literature: A few postmodern stories
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Friday, June 1, 2012. A few postmodern stories. Below are: "The School" (Barthelme); "To Do" (Egan); and the first couple of pages of "Lost in the Funhouse" (Barth). Of course we expected the tropical fish to die, that was no surprise. Those numbers, you look at them crooked and they’re belly-up on the surface. But the lesson plan called for a tropical-fish input at that point, there was nothing we could do, it happens every year, you just have to hurry past it. I said, yes, maybe. I said, it is. We̵...
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Our American Literature: May 2012
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Rough draft: June 4. Write a story that acknowledges fiction’s limitations and playfully pushes against them. Your story should be one or more of the following:. Transparently artificial Intertextual Metafictional/metatextual. Some examples, in addition to the ones we’ve already considered. Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine. Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. Calls into question how we know what “really” happened, etc. Wednesday, May 23, 2012.
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Our American Literature: February 2012
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Posts and comments on "Your Antonia" and "Your Eyes". Over the next week, you must write at least one post, and several comments on other people's posts, on the blogs for your books (links are over there on the right). Your posts should be interesting enough to provoke discussion. You might raise a question, but often a provocative statement of an idea can make for more interesting discussion. It helps to have something to argue against! Monday, February 27, 2012. Like a pat...
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Our American Literature: Read a work of American fiction from the past 50 or so years
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Read a work of American fiction from the past 50 or so years. By next Tuesday (E) or WEdnesday (F), you have to have acquired a copy of a creative, narrative work written by an American sometime since 1955 and you have to have begun reading it. The book does not have to be "postmodern", but since you do have to write a "postmodern" story, it might be helpful. Below is a brief list of some books that might be good to read:. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz. Subscri...
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Our American Literature: October 2011
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011. Books by Americans before 1920. The following books are roughly in order of difficulty and sophistication. James is the best but the hardest; Alger is the corniest but the easiest. You also don't need to be limited by this list. Henry James, Portrait of a Lady. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth,. Etc (Novels about high society in NYC in the late nineteenth century). Willa Cather, My Antonia. Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, etc. Booth Tar...
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Our American Literature: Identify this...
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Friday, June 8, 2012. 8220;It was found,” said the sexton, “this morning, on the scaffold, where evil-doers are set up to public shame. Satan dropped it there, I take it, intending a scurrilous jest against your reverence. But, indeed, he was blind and foolish, as he ever and always is. A pure hand needs no glove to cover it! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Documents site; "Your Antonia" and "Your Eyes" blogs. Our Song of Solomon. Your Eyes Watching Their Eyes Were Watching God. Wed, May 2. Fri, May ...
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Our American Literature: March 2012
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Example of a good analysis of a line from "Beast in the Jungle". The paper below is not perfect (there are some mechanical issues, and the conclusion strikes me as a little weak), but it's very, very good, and it really does exactly what I was aski. G you all to do in that paper. If you're revising, looking at this paper might be helpful. She only kept him waiting, however; that is he only waited.” (pp. 435). Of her and not. Left to wait for; everything is said! Yet the clarifi...
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Our American Literature: what you've given me so far...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012. What you've given me so far. Below is all from you except for a few left over authors that I filled in myself. Some authors are done twice. I hope it's useful. Next I'll post some excerpts and you can see if you can identify them. Was the first American published poet. Anne Bradstreet- 1612-1672, Most famous work: "The Prologue". Notable: Immigrated to America as a puritan, themes of feminism. Works: "On being brought from Africa to America". Themes: His poems were known to combin...
