March 2009 Listing

You may also choose the related critical lenses of formalism/structuralism/archetypes/monomyth.

Use this page for your blog entries about either the script or the production.  You can write just one blog entry for both, if you've seen the play.

Post your reactions to the Azar Nafisi lecture here.

See SHU's production of Life is a Dream. The production runs February 27 to March 7.

If you can see "Life is a Dream" before Ex 5 is due, please use the SHU production (and the script) as your literary text (for either formalism or psychological criticism).

Otherwise, use the SHU production and the script as the literary text for Ex 6 (on intertextuality).

Length: Can be very brief. (A few sentences.)
Submit: Either post it on your blog, OR bring a printout.

Your project could be a traditional paper, a website, a creative work, or just about anything that demonstrates your ability to apply, in a focused, deliberate way, the skills you are developing in this course.

See examples of Lit-Crit projects from 2007.

There's a progress report due late in April, and the project itself is due on the last day of classes. (See the schedule as given on the Outline.)

I actively discourage groups of three, because in my experience they fall apart much too easily; nevertheless, I don't forbid them.

At this early stage, I'm really only looking for a very general idea of what you'd like to attempt.

Read one of

Brann, ''Pictures in Poetry: Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn''

OR

Gilbert and Gubar, ''The Yellow Wallpaper''

Presenter: Derek (after the break)

The full text of this article is available online, through Reeves library. I've linked to it for you:

The full text of this article is available online, through Reeves library. I've linked to it for you:

Rupp

On your blog, post a brief paragraph that demonstrates your knowledge of one term that you had to look up.

Apply intertextuality to a work on the syllabus.

Make plans to attend a screening of Blade Runner (outside of class time). The upcoming exercise on the uncanny will apply to this film.

In Keesey, Ch 4

Presenter: Angela Palumbo

In Keesey, Ch 4

Presenter: Sue Myers

Damned Critic: Arnzen versus William Carlos Williams, Part 2

Michael A. Arnzen, whether he knows or not, has written a poem in the shadow of "The Red Wheelbarrow" and all those other snappy little wonders Williams used to jot on his perscription pad, whiling away the moments between seeing patients as a baby doctor.

In Keesey, Ch 5

Presenter: Erica Gearhart

In Keesey, Ch 5

In Keesey, Ch 5

On your blog, post a brief paragraph that demonstrates your knowledge of one term that you had to look up.

Apply material from Keesey, Ch 4 to a critical analysis of SHU's production of ''Life Is a Dream.'' Emphasize issues that arise from translation. (If you don't know Spanish, you can compare the translation SHU used with the one in your textbook.)

The College English Association is having its convention in Pittsburgh this year.

Class this week will be replaced by a visit to the CEA conference in Pittsburgh. (We can arrange carpools. The English club and several faculty members have expressed interest in attending; I am actually giving a presentation on academic blogging on Saturday.)

A student membership in the CEA costs $15.

Registration for the conference costs $50.  That's very reasonable for a three-day conference, and it's inexpensive when compared with the cost of a textbook.

Students who cannot attend any of the CEA sessions should contact me before March 1, to arrange for an alternative assignment.

I will be presenting on Saturday, March 28, but you don't need to attend my session.

In Literary Theory

On your blog, post a brief paragraph that demonstrates your knowledge of one term that you had to look up.