ENC 1102.1719
Assignments/updates


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  • 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) POETRY:
    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")

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    Class Policies Lit./Crit. Terms UF Library Homepage