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Anthology Assignment Breakdown
As stated on your assignment handout, timely and satisfactory completion of the various assignments leading up to the anthology will be factored into your grade as follows (the anthology in total is worth 25% of your grade):
Proposal: 5%
Short essay: 5%
Introduction draft: 5%
Active attendance at both days of presentations: 5%
Complete Project: 80%
How to Read a Poem
Wanted to share a great piece from The Atlantic: “Reading A Poem: 20 Strategies.”
Do any of these ring true to you? Remind you of your experiences reading any of the poems we’ve read for this class?
Hedda Gabler
Here’s the full film version of Hedda Gabler (one of many) from which we watched clips in class.
Essay Revisions
If you choose to revise your essay, the requirements are as follows:
- Due in-class Thursday, October 29 OR Tuesday, November 3, the latter only if you provide evidence of visiting office hours or the writing center
- Must be accompanied by a cover letter explaining what revisions you made, and why (in letter format); 1-2 paragraphs in length
- Re-writes must be submitted in hard copy in class, WITH the original marked up paper
- No late revisions will be accepted
- To receive a higher grade, re-writes must show significant revision, not simply correction
Dickinson Assignment & Resources
Emily Dickinson Archive: http://www.edickinson.org/
Includes manuscript versions of her poems, and a lexicon for definitions from her dictionary. After reading the assigned poems, choose two favorites, and look at the manuscript versions. In lieu of a quiz Tuesday, you should bring in a 1-2 paragraph response about looking the manuscript versions of the specific poems you chose (indicate which poems you looked at). Did it change your impression or experience of the poems at all? How so? If not, why?
This NYTimes article sums up some of the controversy surrounding her manuscripts and their digitization: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/books/enigmatic-dickinson-revealed-online.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1&
And finally, Dickinson’s place setting from The Dinner Party (the Judy Chicago project–we looked at Wollstonecraft’s early in the semester):http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/emily_dickinson.php
Sor Juana poems in Spanish
If you read Spanish, you might want to look at the poems we’re reading by Sor Juana in the original Spanish:
“Sátira filosófica” (also known as “Redondillas” or “Hombres necios”): http://litgloss.buffalo.edu/cruz/text.shtml
Sonnet 145: http://dept.sfcollege.edu/HFL/hum2461/jpgs/sorjuana/sjicsonnet145.htm
More on Wollstonecraft & The Dinner Party
If you’re interested in reading more of Wollstonecraft’s “Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” the full text is available (in a variety of formats) here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3420
Today in class we looked at Mary Wollstonecraft’s place setting from Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party.”
I highly recommend checking out “The Dinner Party” in person if you get a chance–its pretty awesome to see in person, and its on permanent display at the Brooklyn Museum (admission is suggested donation, so pay-what-you-can).
You can read more about the whole project here: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/home.php
Browse the various place settings (a few of the other writers we’ll read this semester have place settings too): http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/browse.php
“Crafting the Dinner Party”: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/blog/crafting-dinner-party
More Debate on What We Should Read
Perfectly timed with our discussion of the canon last week, the latest issue of the New York Times “Room for Debate” feature is about what college students should read (with a variety of people–professors, authors, and students–taking positions). This is definitely an ongoing conversation!
Welcome to Great Works of Literature!
Hello and welcome to Great Works of Literature II, ENG 2850 KTRC.
We’ll be using this course blog to enrich our classroom experience by sharing responses to the readings, announcements, and links to outside material. In addition to your required blog posts, you should feel free to post anything that seems relevant to our class–a video you watched, something you took a picture of, an article you read, etc. I’m looking forward to getting started!
If you’re interested, here are a few more readings on the canon, the debate surrounding it, and how we define literature, to follow up on our discussion today:
“Revisiting the Canon Wars”
“The Use and Abuse of Literature” (excerpt)
What’s your take?
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