Voyage and Displacement: Inner and Outer Journeys
Reading & Class Schedule (*subject to modification)
- Week One
Aug 29: introduction, discussion: Michel de Certeau from “Reading as Poaching” in The Practice of Everyday Life
Aug 31: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Poem 145 “This object which you see, a painted snare”
Poem 149 “Were the perils of the ocean fully weighed”
Poem 165 “Stay, shadow of contentment too short-lived”
images of paintings in PowerPoint (“Sor Juana and Painting”)
- Week Two
Sept 5: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz “Loa” from The Divine Narcissus, First Dream
Sept 7: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz First Dream
*Group 1 blog post due
- Week Three
Sept 12: Matsuo Basho “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”
Sept 14: Immanuel Kant “What is Enlightenment?”; Voltaire Candide (chs. 1-3)
*Group 2 blog post due
- Week Four
Sept 19: Voltaire Candide (chs. 4-12)
*Group 3 blog post due
- Week Five
Sept 26: Voltaire Candide (chs. 13-20)
*Close reading essay due
Sept 28: Voltaire Candide (chs. 21-30)
- Week Six
Oct. 3: Ueda Akinari “Bewitched”; film screening: Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) (adaptation of Akinari’s stories)
Oct. 5: Ueda Akinari “Bewitched”
*Group 1 blog post due
- Week Seven
Oct. 10: Charles Baudelaire poems “To the Reader”; “The Albatross”; “A Voyage to Cythera”; “Correspondences”; “To a Creole Lady”; “Invitation to the Voyage”; “Hymn to Beauty”; from The Painter of Modern Life
[Oct. 11: optional special event: Andrew Zawacki reading/talk on translation, CUNY Graduate Center, event details TBA]
Oct. 12: Baudelaire from The Painter of Modern Life (pp. 7-15), excerpts from The Parisian Prowler (Le Spleen de Paris), “The Bad Glazier,” “The Cake,” “Get High,” “N’Importe où hors du monde,” “Preface to La Presse, 1862”
*Group 2 blog post due
- Week Eight
Oct. 17: Emily Dickinson poems # 269, 409, 411, 445, 466, 563, 601, 633, 656, 764, 800, 805, 807, 829, 833, 890, 930, 1262, 1263, 1691
Oct. 19: Anne Carson “Variations on the Right to Remain Silent”
Online annotation assignment & Translation essay prep (details TBA)
- Week Nine
Oct. 24: Dickinson poems cont’d; Susan Howe from My Emily Dickinson
*Group 3 blog post due
Oct. 26: Djuna Barnes Nightwood (pp. 4-54)
*Group 1 blog post due
- Week Ten
Oct. 31: Barnes Nightwood (pp. 55-83)
*Translation essay due
Nov. 2: Barnes Nightwood (pp.84-113)
- Week Eleven
Nov. 7: Barnes Nightwood (pp. 114-144)
Nov. 9: Barnes Nightwood (pp. 145-180)
*Group 2 blog post due
- Week Twelve
Nov. 14: Aimé Césaire Notebook of a Return to a Native Land (pp. 1-25); Surrealism introduction
Nov. 16: Césaire Notebook of a Return to a Native Land (pp. 26-51), excerpts from Discourse on Colonialism
*Group 3 blog post due
- Week Thirteen
Thanksgiving Break
- Week Fourteen
Nov. 28: Césaire Notebook of a Return to a Native Land (pp. 26-51), excerpts from Discourse on Colonialism
Nov. 30: Clarice Lispector Água viva (pp. 3-30, 36, 42-43); Hélène Cixous from “The Laugh of the Medusa” (pp. 875-877)
- Week Fifteen
Dec. 5: Clarice Lispector Água viva (pp. 67-88)
*Creative piece from anthology due on class blog
Dec. 7: Final presentations
- Week Sixteen
Dec. 12: Final presentations