Date
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In-Class
Activities
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HW due
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Links
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1.
Sept. 10
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What
is literature? Fav. Databases;
Online Glossary
+
Faculty Assignments |
Read
R. Barthes, "Death of the Author" (1977) from Image, Music, Text
(Blackboard); Klarer, 1-26, 63-96; "Teaching
Literature in the Academy Today" PMLA 112.1 (Jan. 1997)
JSTOR
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UCSB
English; CHSS
faculty
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2.
Sept. 17
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Post
1945 Lit.; American Poetry; Art of the Book Review
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Sign
up for a Wiki Spaces account
so that you can edit one of our pages;
read from Beat
Reader: J. Kerouac, 10-42; A. Ginsberg, 62-76; G. Corso, 182-85; L.
Ferlinghetti, 245-63; T. Kupferberg, 384-94; N. Mailer, 581-605; Klarer
27-41; M.
Theado, "Beat Generation Lit. Crit." in Contemp. Lit. 45.4 (Winter 2004)
JSTOR; L.
Sante, "On the Road Again," NYT 19. Aug. 2007
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Howl
recording; Wordsworth, "Daffodils"
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3.
Sept. 24
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Cultural
Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation
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Read
Guillory, 3-82, 134-75, 269-340; Position Paper #1 due
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4.
Oct. 1
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Brit.
lit.: The
Importance of Being Earnest; Drama
as Performance |
Read
O. Wilde; C.
Craft, "Alias Bunbury" in Representations 31 (Summer 1990)
JSTOR; Read
Klarer, 41-52 &
Theater Reviews of Earnest ; Position
Paper #2 due
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Calls for Papers;
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5.
Oct. 8
|
Class
cancelled
|
Read
ahead
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6.
Oct. 15
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What
is World Literature?
|
Read
Damrosch, 1-77, 110-44, 187-205, 281-303; "Biographies/Meet the Faculty"
contributions due: please post to Wikispaces if possible |
"ENLT:
International Literature"; ACLA; PEN; CLC Web Journal
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7.
Oct. 22
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class
cancelled
|
Read
Rigoberta 1-246; Decide
which work you'll be
reviewing (cf. Klarer 97-101) |
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8.
Oct. 29
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Criticism
on I, Rigoberta
Menchú |
Read
Damrosch, 231-59; E.
Burgos, "Testimonio and Transmission" from Latin American Perspectives
26.6 (Nov. 1999) (Bb & JSTOR); A.
Arias, "Authoring Ethnicized Subjects" in PMLA 116.1 (Jan 2001) (Bb
&JSTOR); A.
Arias, "After the Rigoberta Menchú Controversy" in MLN 117 (2002)
(Bb & Proj. Muse); Position Paper #3 due
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Supplemental:
D. Stoll, excerpts from Rigoberta Menchú
and the story of all poor Guatemalans (coming soon to Blackboard); Nelson,
Diane. "Indian Giver or Noble Savage," from American Ethnologist (May
2001) (Bb and AnthroSource) |
9.
Nov. 5
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Writing
Studies
|
Read
in A Guide to Comp. Studies, 1-112: Position
Paper #4 due; midterm
review of contrib. to Online Glossary
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10.
Nov. 12
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Final
Proj. Topics; Wikispaces;
Researching Pedagogies; Revising P.P.
|
Read
in A Guide to Comp. Studies, 113-223: announce subject
for Final Project to instructor |
ERIC; Education
Full Text; Research in
Teaching of English (May); CCC
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11.
Nov. 19
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Sprague
Library Tutorial (Sprague 203)
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Book
Review of Recent Work in Literary Studies due
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Montclair Electronic Text Archive;
The Spectator Text
Project
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12.
Nov. 26
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Book
review returned; Expectations for Final Project
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Position
Papers due
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Internet Library of Early
Journals; CESAR; People Play UK
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13.
Dec. 3
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Tips
for Thesis Writing |
Rough
drafts of Final
Project due (cf. Klarer 103-15); Revisions of Book Review due
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14.
Dec. 10
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Comments
on drafts returned; One-on-one
conferences |
Contributions
to Online Glossary due (critical introduction)
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Mon.
Dec. 17
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Final
Project
|
due at
8:15 p.m.
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