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ENGL 480 - DIE
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Dr. Kenneth Sherwood Sherwood@iup.edu www.chss.iup.edu/sherwood Office: Sutton 340;
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Highmore - Introduction to the Study of Everyday Life. Courses/ENGL480S06/Documents/Highmore_Introduction.pdf Week - 5 Presentations of first experiments; pickup discussion of the socio-political dimension of the everyday, in terms of the foregrounding of dominant ideology (Friedan and Williams). Proposal of second experiments; identification of some preferred selections (project "models") from Everyday Life Reader. Look at Mary Kelley and Lev Manovich (see blog) as instances of everyday, sociological research engaged with "literary" issues of form, genre, and representation. Week - 4 Discuss: Hansen's Nebraska, a selection from Betty Friedan, first experiments, and Williams' "Culture_Is_Ordinary.pdf". Let's think about the ideological dimension of calling attention to some aspects of the everyday and consider the implications of doing so within various genres and media.
Week - 3 Finish discussing Goffman's conceptions of Front/back regions and the micro-sociological emphasis of his approach. Consider the style and program explored in Perec - and compare his project with Goffman's, especially in relation to motive or objectives. As a continuation of the interest in styles (journalistic / academic) and in anticipation of the first round of "creative" "experiments," let's choose an exemplary piece or two from Chain to look at as suggestive formal models -- along with Hansen's "Nebraska," if you want to put that on the menu -- and Friedan. Week - 2 Continue to investigate primary questions and orient ourselves, looking at the found texts of the "varieties" handout, Sarah's selection from Victor Turner, and then the Highmore introduction , Nowak's "Back Me Up" as a kind of poetic/ethnographic treatment of the everyday, and finally the Erving Goffman excerpt from the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Front_and_back_regions.pdf Week - 1
Weds - Course overview, introduction to
"Everyday"
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