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ENGL053R-01-F15 (FALL 2015)
GENERAL ENGLISH 53R COURSE MATERIALS
Introductory class (Aug. 31)
Willa Cather's My Antonia (Sept. 7)
Digital Archive Work (Sept. 14)
Sept. 21: Theory: Edward Said and Caroline Levine
Hemingway (Sept. 28, Oct. 5, and Oct. 19)
two short writing assignments are due any time during the first half of the semester (before you leave for fall break)
Slavery-to-Freedom narratives (4 classes: Oct. 26, Nov. 2, Nov. 9, and Nov. 16)
Harriet Jacobs (Nov. 2)
Freedom narratives, class #3 [November 9]: Octavia Butler
Freedom Narratives, class 4 [Nov. 16]
open classes for research and student presentations
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ENGL053R-01-F15 (FALL 2015)
Introductory class (Aug. 31)
Neil Gaiman, "Why our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading, and Daydreaming"
Neil Gaiman, "Why our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading, and Daydreaming"
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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming
link to open resource.
◄ James Baldwin, "The Creative Process"
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James Baldwin, "The Creative Process"
My Antonia online
PS's excerpts from Cather's "The Novel Unfurnished" essay
Cather interview, by Eleanor Hinman (1921)
Bourne, "Trans-National America" (1916)
Miller on Cather
BEFORE THIS WEEK'S CLASS, YOU SHOULD ALSO CREATE AN ACCOUNT ON THE COHA SITE. See info and instructions on this attached page (click on it).
Stallybrass and McGann essays
Link for the Corpus of Historical American English
Mark Davies, an introduction to using COHA (Corpus of Historical American English)
Edward Said, on reading contrapuntally
excerpt from Levine's Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (2015)
Hemingway reading assignments (for 3 classes)
Eudora Welty on Hemingway
Orson Welles on Hemingway (1974 TV interview)
Gertrude Stein on Hemingway
Norman Mailer on Hemingway (1962)
Joan Didion on Hemingway
photo of an envelope on which Hemingway recorded daily word counts
Helen MacDonald, "Shooting a Lion"
Upload your "close reading" Cather or Hemingway paper here
upload your critical theory article analysis here
reading assignments for the next four weeks, including on Douglass, Jacobs, and Butler
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Introduction"
Frederick Douglass, excerpts from his Narrative (1845)
Stowe, excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Edward E. Baptist, "Teaching Slavery"
Freed Slave Writes Letter to Former Master: You Owe Us $11,680 for 52 Years of Unpaid Labor (1865)
Prof. Schmidt's study guide to reading Jacobs' _Incidents_
supplemental illustrations and info re Jacobs' _Incidents_
Friends' Intelligencer letters by and about Harriet Jacobs
Robert Crossley's introduction to _Kindred_
Swarthmore's Professor and President Valerie Smith on the "neo-slave narrative"
Review of Eric Foner’s new book, Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Oxford Univ. Students Want Statue of Cecil Rhodes Removed
"The Disappointed Abolitionists" cartoon (1838)
Please use this link to upload your final English 53R paper
My Antonia online ►