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?
Category Archives: Further Reading
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!