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Course Syllabus:
English 596f:Contemporary American Poetry:Legacies of ModernismR 6:30-9:00ML 403
Professor Tenney Nathanson621-1836office hours: T 9:30-11:30, and by appointment
electronic reserves: http://ereserves.library.arizona.edu/ers_search/OSCRsrchform.php3 course password: please email me at nathanso@u.arizona.edu if you've forgotten the password
class listserv: pomo5@listserv.arizona.edu
Course Requirements and Procedures
The Small Print Please note: the information contained on this sheet, as well as on the accompanying course syllabus--other than the grade and absence policy--may be subject to change with advance notice, as deemed appropriate by the instructor.
Written Work The “default” option for literature program students will be preparation of a conference-length paper (roughly 8-10 pages), followed by submission of an article-length essay (roughly 20 pages); those interested in making alternate arrangements should consult with me (very) early in the semester. The conference paper is due November 6; the final essay will be due during exam period (date to be announced). Both papers should be made available for perusal by members of the seminar. The easiest way to do this is probably to bring in xerox copies for all seminar members. An alternative is to post your essays to the listserv discussion list (see below). Seminar members will be expected to provide written feedback on the work of at least some of their peers; we’ll need to come to an agreement about viable ways of doing this. MFA students may choose the above option. Or you may negotiate an individual plan with me, which will typically include some combination of the following (these should add up to the rough “working equivalent” of thirty pages of writing):
Students from other programs and NDS students may pursue the “default” option for Literature Program students or negotiate an individual plan with me
Other Requirements either regular participation in the class listserv list--you should post to the list at least once a week--or some alternate task, helpful to the seminar, to be settled on in consultation with me regular attendance and regular participation in class discussion Grading Grades for the course will depend primarily on written work, principally the final paper if you are pursuing the “default” option.
Texts available from Antigone Books, 411 N 4th Ave, 792-3715:
Required:
O’Hara, Collected Poems (U of California) Ashbery, The Mooring of Starting Out (Ecco) Mayer, Midwinter Day ( New Directions) Silliman, N/O (Roof) Scalapino, Leslie. Way (O Books) Scalapino, The Return of Painting, the Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy (Talisman House) Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei. Four Year Old Girl (Kelsey St.) Mullen, Harryette. Muse & Drudge (Singing Horse Press)
Recommended: Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Avon) Jameson, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Duke) Baudrillard, Simulations (Semiotext(e))
xeroxed or web material available later in the term: Bernstein, Controlling Interests Jarnot, Ring of Fire [Hunt, Local History (maybe!)]
Additional Material Available via library reserve (Check the sabio system for the developing course reserve list, and the electronic reserves page at http://ereserves.library.arizona.edu/ers_search/OSCRsrchform.php3 for materials available electronically.) Look soon for:
Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism (library reserve)
Schedule: Overview
August 28
September 4
September 11
September 18 wiggle-room; TBA
September 25
October 2
October 9
October 16
October 23
October 30
November 6
November 13
November 20
November 27: THANKSGIVING
December 4
This page last modified September 14, 2003.
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