Lit-2000: Innovations in Form

Hi all, We're switching gears completely and covering some very contemporary poetry for the remainder of this week, as well as a new Discussion/hw format. Due tonight is a reading of Terrance Hayes' How to Be Drawn . Dr. Yolanda Franklin will be joining us tomorrow morning to discuss the book, so tonight, instead of DQs, please quote a few passages from the book which stood out as interesting to you. Please include your quote in the comments and explain why each of them was interesting or stood out to you. Any and all poems for the book are welcome- since it's a collection, you can read the poems in any order and quote from them in any order as well. Thanks! Looking forward to tomorrow.

Hi all, due to a slight schedule change of our Guest Speaker coming in on Wednesday, tonight's DQs will be the second half of No Man's Land  and, instead of the Stephen Watt reading as was the old plan, please read the following selections from Comp. by Kevin Davies: "Apocryphon", "Karnal Bunt", and "Untitled Poem from the First Clinton Administration". Our Guest Speaker will discuss Terrance Hayes with us on Wednesday, so please start reading How to be Drawn  if you have time. There will be special instructions for the Tuesday night DQ, so please watch the blog/Bb site carefully.

Hi all, DQ 14 is on the first half of  No Man's Land   by Harold Pinter due Sunday by 7. This a very interesting and funny play, hope you will enjoy reading it. We'll discuss more about  Waiting for Godot  in relation to this one. Thanks for a good discussion on  Waiting  and looking forward to the rest of conferences and class next week. If you want to get an early start on the DQ 15, it will be on the second half of  No Man's Land  and the Stephen Watt that we didn't read, the beginning of the document to page 106. Also: the extra credit on Keywords for American Cultural Studies is due the 31st. For this, please go to this link:  http ://keywords. nyupress . org / american -cultural-studies / and click on Essays in the top left corner, then Web Essays to select one to reflect on. Please write 500 words on what this essay made you think of and why. Then email  lp 15f@my. fsu . edu  with your reflection. Thanks, see you next week

Hi all, We watched the first half of Waiting for Godot in class today. We will watch the second half tomorrow, but we will have time for a quick discussion at the end of the play in class, based on your comments, questions, and reactions. So this DQ is optional (or you can think of it as a way to make up any lost previous DQs). If you'd like, please post two questions, or this time, perhaps comments or reactions instead. Thanks- I look forward to discussion and continuing our conferences

Hi, all DQ 12 is on Stephen Watt: Rereading Harold Pinter pages 106-121, a critical text on Harold Pinter from his book Post/Modern Drama " and "Mountain Language" a play by Pinter, both in the Course Library. Ethan Vaughan will lead discussion. "Mountain Language" is very short, so please read both texts. Watt does a great job analyzing Pinter and will be important for our reading of No Man's Land , a two-act play by Pinter, later. Thanks for a good class today, looking forward to tomorrow and conferences.

Hi all, DQ 11 is on these last three short stories. Thanks for a good discussion today. Tomorrow will be similar as today, but we'll also go over NYU Press' Keywords' Web Essays at  http://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/  which could be useful for your problem statements. Just a reminder: The problem statement is now 800 words due Friday too Turn It In in our Bb assignments tab, and the first draft of 1,200 is due Tuesday at 7. Wednesday through Monday we'll have conferences. Also: If you have some extra time after reading these Salinger stories, Pinter's Mountain Language and then one day after, No Man's Land will be next.

Due Wednesday (DQs Tuesday night) is to begin reading J.D. Salinger's  Nine Stories.  The first half that we'll be covering Wednesday is: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut," and "The Laughing Man". Destiny Day will lead discussion. I think you'll really enjoy these short stories, so please give them a thorough read.

Hi all, DQ 9 is on "Dutchman" by Amiri Baraka, which can be found in the Course Library. Destiny will be leading discussion for the first half of the class, and then I'll share some information on the play. Note: As it says in the syllabus, some of the language in the texts we're reading could be triggering or offensive. "Dutchman" contains racial epithets and other strong language and themes, so please keep this in mind. Part of discussion could be on how this language works and why Baraka/Jones chose to use it, and used it in the manner that he did, and how you reacted as a reader.

Hi, all. Optional DQs tonight, since the Annotated Bibliography is due. The DQs are on Louis Zukofsky's "A" in the course library, and Louis Zukofsky - Theological Poetics, a source in the Course Library as welll. In class tomorrow, we'll start by workshopping Research Questions, then we'll briefly go over Zukofsky and we'll start with our section on 1900s theater.

Hi all, Although there is no homework in the form of DQs due tonight, the Annotated Bibliography is due tomorrow by 7 PM, and there will be some DQs assigned to be due then as well. Please see the Assignments tab for the Turnitin space to upload and submit your bibliography. For the Annotated Bibliography: there is a minimum of 150 word annotations per source. Each annotation should explain the source, how it will be used to argue your (working) thesis for the paper, AND how each source will correspond to the other sources. The more detailed your annotations, the more helpful this document will be for writing your research paper.  Tomorrow we will finish up Eliot, which was put aside today, and I will give an introduction to Althusser, which will be important for working with the Pinter texts next week. We will also read Pinter's Mountain Language and/or Louis Zukofsky's "A". We will cover Zukofsky Thursday via your DQs on the reading (selections from "A&q

Hi all, Slight change of plans- because we're getting close to the Annotated Bibliography being due Wednesday, I'm assigning shorter readings due tomorrow and Wednesday. We'll save Zukofsky for Thursday, then start our new discussion format next week, starting with Pinter ("Mountain Language" and "No Man's Land", then finishing with "Dutchman" by Amiri Baraka). If you're interested in leading discussion for any of these, there are still spots available for extra credit on the final paper). So for DQs tonight, please read the wikipedia article under the link "Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation" and the selections from "Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle", both in the Course Library, and post DQs. We'll also finish up "The Waste Land" in class and touch on "Ash Wednesday" and "The Hollow Men", so keep those DQs from today handy. Thanks for a great discussion today and se

Hi all, For DQ 6 please read "The Waste Land" and accompanying Notes on The Waste Land in Selected Poems , as well as "Ash Wednesday" and "The Hollow Men," as well as "Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" selection in the Course Library. This will complete our reading of Eliot. We just have one more Modernist poet to cover next week- Louis Zukofsky, on whom we'll have DQs due on Tuesday, see you may read the selections from "A" in the Course Library also if you'd like to read ahead. There will be an accompanying criticism piece in the course library soon to help us discuss this difficult work. Also, please remember that the Annotated Bibliography is due Wednesday- please see the Blackboard announcements for instructions on this, and the Sample Annotated Bibliography in the Course Library. Thanks and have a great weekend.

Hi, all. DQ 5 is on the Sigmund Freud reading, pages 1-12 and/or the reading of T.S. Eliot's Selected Poems  11-33, 38, 42, and 46. This covers the poems, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Preludes," "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," "Gerontion," "A Cooking Egg," "Whispers of Immortality," and "Sweeney Among the Nightingales." These readings might use some vocab words- if you find a word you're unfamiliar with, you should do a quick Google search for the word to get a definition. If you use Chrome, all you have to do is type the word into the search bar + definition. For instance, a quick search for "Gerontion" would yield the definition: little old man. Thanks for a great discussion of our readings today. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Freud and/or Eliot.

This is for pages 120-160 and/or 160-225 of The Sun Also Rises . Please don't forget to have the novel finished by Wednesday the 5th. Thanks, all.

Hi, all. DQ3 questions should be based on The Sun Also Rises pages 40-80 and/or 80-120. As before, the questions are due by seven tonight, and the reading up to page 120 is due tomorrow. Thanks for another great discussion. Looking forward to your thoughts tomorrow. Keep watch on the Announcements on our Blackboard page for how to start searching for Academic Essays that I mentioned today. I highly recommend starting to search for articles of interest, and to look at the texts we'll be reading next via the schedule for the class, to see which text interests you most. This will be part of your homework this weekend, besides another group of pages from TSAR

Please post your discussion questions (100 words minimum, total for both questions) for The Sun Also Rises , pages 1-40 and/or 41-80. The homework is to continue reading the novel up to pg 80. Thanks for a great discussion today- see y'all tomorrow.

Hi all, DQ1 questions (two questions, at least 100-150 words total) can be based on "Hills Like White Elephants" found in the course library, as well as any of the Hemingway Short Stories also in the Course Library, or the first 40 pages of The Sun Also Rises which is due by tomorrow (after tonight, the remaining DQs for the week will be on The Sun Also Rises ). Just click on Post Comment and leave your name. Please see the syllabus for guidelines and suggestions for DQs before you post your first question. Looking forward to having a class discussion on your questions tomorrow.