ENGL 783 - Archive

 Week of Nov 15th - Mon: "A"-7, relation of "A"-6 range of materials and the adoption of sonnet form in "A"-7; Barry Ahearn introduction; resonance of "A"1-7 with "An Objective" (e-reserve).
Weds: "A"-8, especially pp. 43-48 and 103-105 in relation to "Found Objects" (ereserve), Zukofsky's labor politics, craft, and the job at the Index of American Design.
Fri: "A"-9: Labor and love, labor of love; virtuosity.

For Week of Nov 8th - Beginning Zukofsky's "A"; read initial sections, and see Scroggins' introductory biography.

Reading Day Friday. Extra office hours next week. Read "A"-7 and e-reserves, then  blog an "A"-7 style sonnet for Monday.

Week of October 11

Wednesday: Stein's Melanctha, Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas (Ch.s. 3, 5); Blog your translation of a fairy tale into Stein-ese.

Friday: finish Melanctha. Race and character typography; essentialism; genius, biography autobiography and shifting identity; the sentence.

Friday, Sept. 27: Spring & All, poems of note: "By the road," " The rose is obsolete," "What about all this writing," "The universality of things," "In passing with my mind," "Of death," "O Tongue," "Our Orchestra," "The pure products," "The sea that encloses," "Somebody dies," "The crowd at the ball game," "Black eyed Susan"

Week of Mon, Sept. 27: Mina Loy - see syllabus. Also recommended are the brief introduction (early handout) and prefatory materials in Last Lunar Baedecker.

From "A Letter on Loy," Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Reading Mina Loy Through Creative Translation

Week of Sept. 20th

Hint - Close Reading - You should not do critical research but may find the dictionary useful in writing your essay. There is a wonderful, free online version of The Century Dictionary (10+ volumes; Zukofsky owned it), which was the authoritative, American dictionary at the turn of the century. It's especially useful, for instance, if you are wondering about whether a certain word meant "then" what it means "now". 

For at least the first two classes of this week, we will concentrate on those poems each of you picked for your close readings. We will then revisit Spring & All before moving ahead; expect a revised reading calender!

 Notes

Here's a list of poems you and your classmates selected:

Please see the directions for help on creating a weblog. Once you and your classmates have created your own blogs, you will be able to the New Forms Blogs.

Close Reading Your first informal writing assignment will take the form of a "traditional" close-reading. You may find this PAST/Last worksheet useful in brainstorming. I have also posted a sample close-reading of my own, which you could use as a rough model.

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Last Updated: 09 December, 2008