ENC 1102.1719
Assignments/updates
for Wednesday 9/15
-- have read on course reserve Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery"
for Monday 9/13:
-- if you haven't already, read through the Brooks poems and
Rich poem on course reserve
-- if you haven't already, reviwe the central tenets of each
of the theorists we've read (Eco, Eagleton, Fish, Foucault, Barthes) and
those in Cowles' chapter on Reader Response critique; assemble
notes on each to have ready for next week when we begin drafting
Paper 1.
-- based on the procedures for Reader response critique we covered
in class (our Emily Dickinson poetry example), take one stanza
(not the whole poem but only one stanza) of any of the remaining
Emily Dickinson poems from our reading list, and write an
exhaustive critique of that stanza in terms of its elements and
their effects. (This exercise is to give you practice toward Paper 1.)
Use whatever literary and critical terms that apply; be sure to give the
poet's name and the poem number; and quote the poem frequently to
illustrate what you're talking about (see guidelines for quoting poetry
in Writing: A Concise Handbook , pp. 156-158). About two or so
pages.
for Friday 9/10:
-- from the course reserve site, have
read Brooks' poems and Rich's poem (see listing for Monady 9/6). Takes
notes during reading. We'll discuss these in class.
for Wednesday 9/8:
-- read in course packet David
Cowles' "Introduction" and "Summaries of Critical Approaches" from
The Critical Experience, packet pp. 65-71. Pay particular
attention to the summaries for Reader Response, Marxist, and Feminist
approaches.
-- read Cowles' chapter "Reader
Response Criticism", packet pp. 77-78. Consult the "Glossary of
Important Terms", packet pp. 73-76, for new literary/critical terms
Cowles uses. FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THESE TERMS for obvious
reasons (a future quiz, perhaps?).
-- access the UF libraries
Course Reserve pages (see our homepage for info on this) and have
read all the Dickinson poems (don't distress: they're very short . .
. but don't be deceived either, because they're deep).
--write a brief explication de texte, about 2pp., for either
Burnham's short story "Subtotals" *or* Cortazár's"Continuity of
Parks," where you explain either one of these stories to me.
for Monday 9/6:
NO CLASS -- Labor Day, or
some such thing. A good opportunity to start reading ahead! Before
heading out into the sun for the last big hooplah before the "cold" (for
Florida) weather comes, maybe print from your computer the following
items from the UF Libraries Course reserve site (look up under either
Melczarek or ENC 1102.1719)
Emily Dickinson (we'll read poems
249, 258, 280, 288, 303, 425, 435, 465, 479, 508, 520, 670, 712, 986,
1129, 1670, 1732)
Gwendolyn Brooks (we'll read "Song in the Front Yard,"
"The Bean Eaters," "We Real Cool")
Adrienne Rich (we'll read "Diving
Into the Wreck")