Figure Poetics

Lecture Notes — toward composing final project (see below)

Read / review: Apparatus shift: table/summary (Ulmer).
       —Note: I refer to concepts from this table throughout lecture and these notes.

Read: Ulmer’s blog, “Heuretics”
    —“browse around,” navigating the pages, tags, and/or categories; or in reverse-chrono.
    –Also see (models for layout/organization and navigation):
Ulmer’s current grad students’ projects, analysis of “blogging the disaster”.

Read (for Friday): MyStory project page (tentative; will finalize on Friday)

M 20-Apr     “Para-doxa studio” day. (praxis, poetics, troubleshooting)
    Due: Stage 1 of Project (see below)

W 22-Apr    Due: Final Project (complete) Due by: 9pm

Invention: Para-doxa

“The project is to learn to write with patterns that function more like music than like concepts.” (91)

“…bring directly into the invention process the metaphor for research that has been the unacknowledged support of a certain feeling of thought. What is this feeling–the one guiding the judgments upon which invention depends?” (169)

— Gregory L. Ulmer, Heuretics: The Logic of Invention

M 13-Apr
Read / review: Apparatus shift: table/summary (Ulmer).

Read / review: excerpts from Ulmer about Mystory (PDF on e-learning).

Due: extra credit work for Response 6
        (e.g. response to classmate’s entry; analytic response to Slaughterhouse Five)

W 15-Apr      Vollman: “Red Hands” (3233-9)

Read: Ulmer’s blog, “Heuretics”
    —“browse around,” navigating the pages, tags, and/or categories; or in reverse-chrono.

Relevant / related (potential contrast/lesson?):

“Facebook fans do worse in exams.” (Leake and Warren) The Times 12-Apr 2009.

// “Does Facebook Lower Academic Performance? It’s Still Too Soon to Say.”
(Jefferey R. Young) Chronicle: Wired Campus. 13-Apr 2009

F 17-Apr     Spiegelman: excerpt from Maus (3091-3108
        & Optional — Carver: “Cathedral” (2828-38)
        Due: any remaining extra credit work (e.g. analysis of “blogging the disaster” project)

M 20-Apr     Due: Mystory Project

So It Goes

Note: CATTt page updated (04-Apr)

(Have you been keeping “inventory” from respective readings?
Likely need to update your CATTt-egories and poetics, from past two weeks.)

M 6-Apr Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five (through Chapter 5)    (George Carter)   W 8-Apr Slaughterhouse Five (Chapters 6-7)     (David Lewis)   F 10-Apr Slaughterhouse Five (Chapters 8-10)    (Carter Louv)     Due: Response 6 (updated)

lineage poetics

Revised Schedule (23-Mar – 3-Apr)

M 23-Mar     Due: Response 5

W 25-Mar      Ellison: Invisible Man (2298-2316) (Kola Akinduro)
         & Walker: “Everyday Use” (3010-6)    (Ray Southern)
 
F 27-Mar Lorde: “Poetry is Not a Luxury” (2501) & 3 poems (2781-4)
         & Morrison: “Recitatif” (2685-97)     (Clark Roland)

 
Read / review: (over weekend) Plot Against America Notes & Lessons (poetics)
 
Read: (over weekend)     Mystory.pdf — on e-learning

 
M 30-Mar Anzaldua: excerpts from Borderlands/La Frontera (2935-59)     (Katelyn McDonald)
        & Cisneros: “Woman Hollering Creek” (3164-72)    (open)

W 1-Apr Kingston: excerpt from Tripmaster Monkey (2874-2900)    (Lauren Conway)

Project Proposal — post on blog any time by Friday (class time).

 
F 3-Apr Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain excerpt (2766-75)
                    and web version of section 1     (Ryan George)
         & Silko: “Lullaby” (3083-90)     (Andrea Morgan)

Never Before

“History is everything that happens everywhere. Even here in Newark. Even here on Summit Avenue. Even what happens in his house to an ordinary man — that’ll be history too someday.” (180)

“I wanted nothing to do with history. I wanted to be a boy on the smallest scale possible.” (233)

M 16-Mar Roth: The Plot Against America Postscript; Chapters 1-5 (Saudia Ally & David Korman)       W 18-Mar Plot Against America Chapters 6-7 (Amanda Stipe)       F 20-Mar Plot Against America Chapters 8-9 (Kristin Zemina)     Response 5: Due M 23-Mar (updated)

 
 
 

Breaking (from? toward?)

 
 
During Spring Break…

Weekly blog entries not required (optional / extra credit toward participation).

More significant extra credit opportunity of an additional response
(see details below).

 
 

Moving on (in the middle)

 
 
M 2-Mar      Essay 1 workshop
(Read/review notes)

— Note: Post one question or specific topic for discussion in thread below.

Read: (over weekend)
         Text for analysis; resources: notes; sections in Gardner; Purdue OWL pages (see below).

 
 
W 4-Mar                   Due: Essay 1
(on e-learning)

Extra Credit: (optional)          Process Memo (see below)
 
 

scene from Good Bye Lenin!

 

Détente (already history)

 
 
M 23-Feb Class discussion online (not in classroom)
about The Cold War (Chapters 7-8)      (Katelyn McDonald)

— Note: Questions below, for discussion in comments (this thread).

 

 
 
W 25-Feb Sexton: Intro & 5 poems (2641-9)
        & Plath: Intro & 8 poems (2698-10).     (Andrea Morgan)

 
F 27-Feb Updike: “Separating” (2713-20)     (Jason Adams)
        & Creeley: 6 poems (2569-74)

 

Figurative Warriors

Response 4 — Due: F 20-Feb

 
Part I due by class-time Friday, posted on blog.
Part II (separate entry) due by 6pm Sun 22-Feb.

See description below.

Bixby Creek Bridge, Big Sur, CA

 

Imagine(d) Experience

M 16-Feb The Cold War (Chapters 5-6)     (Amanda Stipe)

Jackson Pollock, "Out of the Web," 1949

W 18-Feb Kerouac: Intro + excerpt from Big Sur (2440-60)    (George Carter)
& Ginsberg: Intro + selections (2576-90; see below)

F 20-Feb
— note: Examine art insert/samples in Norton (C1-C3; after p.2656)
O’Hara: Intro + 5 poems (2590-6)    (Carter Louv)
& Ashberry: Intro + selections (2603-08; see below)    (Kolo Akinduro)

Due: Response 4