Hi Everyone- Happy Sunday (or as I am calling it happy season finale of Westworld day!!)

I really enjoyed talking with each and every one of you this week in our individual meetings and I am really quite excited about your final projects. 🙂

Tomorrow we will be doing a final class on Persepolis– this is our last classroom discussion of the semester so lets make it a good one! We will be thinking about how Persepolis relates to themes we have been discussing all semester- so today think about that and bring in a theme to class to discuss.

****Think about the importance of narrative and experience…and the relationship between space and identity. ****

Also- as a heads up_ we will have a guest observer in class tomorrow (a colleague of mine)! No pressure though.

ALSO- I would like you to PLEASE resend me your favorite image from the text ( now that we have read the entire thing- your images may have changed and  I would like to get some from the latter half of the text) and be prepared to close read it for the class. If you could get that to me ASAP that would be fantastic! 

On Wednesday December 7th your papers are due and we will share them in class and do a little bit of peer review and that is about all!

See you all tomorrow !

Best,

CL

The meetings in Italics will be held in our classroom.  

All other meetings will be held in : 7-290M

Wednesday 30^th

8-8:15 Gisselle

8:15-8:30 Dioni

8:30-8:45 Rabia

8:45-9 Joel

9:00-9:15 Ryan

9:15-9:30 Jana

9:30-9:45 Dini

9:45-10 Samira

10-10:15 Hyunseung

10:15-10:30 Ricardo

10:30-10:45 Quinn

11:30 Rob

 

Thursday December  1^st

Kevin Wong: 3

Sabrina: 3:30

Andrew: 3:15

Kevin H. 3:45

Chris 4:00

Kyle: 4:30  

 

 

After reading the Dada Manifesto by Tzara, the Manifesto of Surrealism by Breton, The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism by Marinetti, AND the addition SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas you probably have a sense of what kind of genre ‘manifesto’ is and what the purpose of a manifesto is.

A manifesto is about hope as much as it is about anger and disappointment. It is a declaration as much as it is a poem. It is embedded in the present but also looks to the future.

With this and what you’ve read in mind, I would like you to write your own manifesto. This manifesto can be based on something you actually wish to declare, change, or create. It can be a manifesto in support of a movement you believe in that actually exists or one that you have created yourself or would like to create. ( Apt times for this)

On the other hand, it can be completely fictional, silly, and ridiculous if you would like but I would still like it to be thoughtful and satirical if that is the case. (A Manifesto for Cats for example…)

Regardless, I would like it to resemble the manifestos you’ve read and hopefully this exercise will allow you to understand the essence of these manifestos and their purpose in time.

Please post your 500 (or more) word manifesto as a comment here by 5 pm on Sunday November 20th.

I can’t wait to hear these!

 

Hi Everyone- I am writing to let you know that something has come up regarding the conference I am running and unfortunately, I am required to cancel class tomorrow. I am not happy about this but I also think this may give you some time to breathe and catch up. Which means I expect you to be completely on top of things come Monday November 14th!

You will have a BLOG POST due on Friday 11/11 by midnight. We will resume Monday’s class as if it were 11/9 on the syllabus. So be prepared with Heart of Darkness for Monday’s class AND bring your response!

You definitely should have your paper grades on Monday! 🙂

Have a lovely weekend and I hope we all can survive this election…

Best,

CL

p.s. if you are interested in the conference I am running this week check this out:

https://cunypop.wordpress.com/

Hi everyone! I know that you are all feverishly writing your papers so I do not expect this to be a really in depth response. However, I would still like it to be a short and thoughtful one. Please choose one of the following topics and write a 100 word response based on the parts of the film we saw. Try to relate this to our conversations about realism.

• Convention
• Conformity
• The “Double Vision” of Edith Wharton as a writer (her inside/outside perspective)
• What does each character represent: Archer, the Countess, May
• Family
• The Status of Work (and progress)
• The aesthetic of wealth
• morality and society
• Scorsese’s (the director)  insertion of art and theatre into the film..why is this interesting or important?

roman-fever

 

Hi everyone! Here you will find your reading selections for Wednesday’s class.

You will read the following poems from the Anthology (Volume E) and two Baudelaire poems from an online source (the link is below)

Charles Baudelaire

From Les Fleurs du mal (In your anthology)

“To The Reader”

“A Carcass”

You will also read two of Baudelaire’s prose poems which I have given you here in a word document:

gw_baudelaire_prosepoems

 

I would like you to read (and print and bring to class):

“The Crowd”

“The Thyrsus”

Rimbaud: 

Illuminations (out of Anthology; translated by poet John Ashbery)

“The Bridges”

“Barbarian”

Mallarmé

“The Afternoon of a Faun”

“Saint”

You will find that these poems are very different from the Romantic poetry we’ve just read. We are entering into an age of modernity and things are starting to shift so keep this in mind as you read. Remember to annotate, take notes, and bring questions with you to class!

 

 

 

 

Please post below your 250 page thought piece based on two texts we have read in class. Please also bring this to class on Monday so that we can discuss as a group.

Do not forget the readings for Monday! You each will be reading a poem (from the poet you were assigned) and we will be discussing the papers. We are going to move the symbolist poets to Wednesday 10/19 and work a lot instead on our papers. (So we are basically swapping 10/17 and 10/19 on your syllabus.)

 

I look forward to reading these! Please submit them to me by this Friday at midnight!~ Hope you are having a lovely week.

 

Best,

 

CL

You have two options:

1. Go visit the Met museum. Take a photo of a Romantic work of art (go to the European paintings this section is FULL of Romantic artworks) and discuss. Post the picture on the blog as a comment with your blog post (350 words) and bring your ticket in to class on Monday for full credit.

 

2. Make a playlist (10 songs) that Werther would make for Lotte. For each song find a quote from the text to justify your choice and explain why you’ve chosen this song. MAKE SURE you use textual evidence and your own interpretation to justify your song choice.

Keep in mind, you will be sharing this with the class. 🙂 Due Sunday night at 9 p.m. ( I will check at 9 and you will lose points should you submit later than 9)

 

Have a great weekend!

Selections from The Sufferings of Young Werther- Goethe

2012 Edition: Published by Norton

Translator: Stanley Corngold

Below you will find your reading for Wednesday. Since we will be skipping around quite a bit in the book- I suggest you read a summary of the book online and of each chapter to get the gist of the main plot. (The plot is not SUPER important here so this is not cheating in the slightest.)

While reading please look for the sensuous as we described it in class today. Please also consider the language, the narrative structure, and the atmosphere of the text.

You are to read:

Beginning- p.27

May 30th: p. 32-43

July 26th- p. 58

January 8th 1772 (When Werther has gone away) p. 84

The Editor to the Reader: p. 116-120

December 12th p. 112

p. 147- end

( it is not as long as it seems these are mostly written as diary entries/letters) The text is here in PDF form:

sufferings

Please bring this to class on Wednesday! Read closely. Underline. Come up with themes for discussion as we have been doing.