359:202 SPRING 2015 sections 05-06-07-08

Martin Gliserman, Sushil Sivaram, Margarita Castroman

MU 210 TH 2:50-4:10 & MONDAY DISCUSSION GROUPS 05, 06,07,08,
READING: 1) Tobias Wolff, Vintage Book of Contemporary Short
Stories; Jane Austen
2) EMMA; 3) Virgina Woolf, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE; 4) Nella Larsen, PASSING;
5) Change-rae Lee, A GESTURE LIFE; 6) DANIEL CLOWES, GHOST WORLD; on
SAKAI:
7) Lewis Thomas 8) Stephen Grosz; 9) Daniel Stern; 10) OMalley, 11) Keith
Oatley, 12) concordance software:
http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/

TH 1/22 INTRODUCTIONSWORD, IMAGE, MOMENT, INTERACTION,

REPRESENTATION, MEANING, PATTERN, NARRATIVE, DEEP HISTORY,
PSYCHOTROPIC ECONOMY, etc.
M 1/26 Tans Rules of the Game [Wolfe anthology] Lewis Thomas, Social
Talk, & Information [Sakai]
TH 1/29 EMMA (1/6) Ghost World, chap 1 BLOG 1 (on any basis, compare these two
works, so far)

M 2/2 EMMA (2/6) Ghost World, chap 2-3,

TH 2/5 EMMA (3/6) Ghost World, chap 4-5; BLOG 2 (check out OED & OED
Historical
Thesaurusreview two words)
M 2/9 EMMA (4/6) Ghost World, chap 6-7
TH 2/12 EMMA (5/6) Ghost World, chap 8; BLOG 3: USE ANTCONC TO SEARCH
EMMA
M 2/16 EMMA (6/6) TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (1-10)
TH 2/19 TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (1/4); Daniel Stern, The Moment [Sakai];
BLOG 4
M 2/23 TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (2/4)
TH 2/26 TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (3/4); Phillips Home BLOG 5 (focus on paper
ideas)
M 3/2 TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (4/4); 2 Grosz on closure, and OMalley on grief
TH 3/5 TO THE LIGHTHOUSE; Oatley, How Reading Transforms Us BLOG 6
(paper)
M 3/9 PAPER #1 DUE. in class reading TBA [Paper: Compare Austen/Woolf]
TH 3/12 PASSING [1-10]; Kincaid, Girl; OBrien, The Things They Carried;
Gurganus, Minor Heroism
3/16 SPRING BREAK
3/19 SPRING BREAK
M 3/23 PASSING (1/3); Wideman, Daddy Garbage
TH 3/26 PASSING (2/3); Simpson, Lawns BLOG 7
M 3/30 PASSING (3/3); BRADFIELD, THE DARLING
TH 4/2 PASSING (4/4), ESSAYS ON PASSING [SAKAI} BLOG 8
M 4/6 Stone, Helping; Dubus, The Fat Girl; Braverman, Tall Tales from the
Mekong Delta, A Gesture Life (1-10)
TH 4/9 A GESTURE LIFE (1/5) BLOG 9
M 4/13 A GESTURE LIFE (2/5)
TH 4/16 A GESTURE LIFE (3/5); Johnson, Emergency BLOG 10

M 4/20 A GESTURE LIFE (4/5)

TH 4/23 A GESTURE LIFE (5/5); LHeureux, Departures BLOG 11 (Think about
final paper)
M 4/27 A GESTURE LIFE
TH 4/30 CONCLUSIONS BLOG 12/REVIEW
M 5/4 FINAL DISCUSSIONS FINAL PAPER DUE 5/7 NOON IN DROPBOX
(Compare Larsen & Lee)

OBJECTIVES, ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS, GRADING, ETC.

SAS CORE:

Principles of Literary Study:Prose

AHp, WCD

01:359:202
Areas of Inquiry: Arts and Humanities, goal p: Analyze arts and/or literatures in
themselves and in relation to specific histories, values, languages, cultures, and
technologies. Courses may be counted as meeting multiple learning goals.
Cognitive Skills and Processes, Writing and Communication: goal t: Communicate
effectively in modes appropriate to a discipline or area of inquiry [WCd]
01:359:202
Principles of Literary Study:Prose
AHp, WCD
OBJECTIVES: The general objective of the course is to become familiar
with the constituents of narratives (e.g., language, narrator, character,
theme); and with the idea that we make meaning from patterns; and
then to be able to analyze and write about them cogently. We approach
these objectives by continuously writing and thinking about them
zooming in on particular passages, and zooming out to larger areas of
texts and larger areas of concern.
WRITING 1) Weekly (usually) BLOG: focused on texts, not graded; cross-read by
two fellow students and one teacher; (25% of grade); 2) TWO 5-7 Page papers
(35% each). Using critical essays is legitimate (to the degree that the source is
reliable); these sources must be cited appropriately (MLA style).
[https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/]. Plagiarized worksources
not cited--is not acceptable, and may cause failure.
GRADING: Written work is graded on the basis of being articulate and cogent
clearly written and thought oute.g., uses textual evidence to build a case for
meaning and/or to connect with a larger theoretical perspective. Overall grade
includes blogs (25%), attendance and participation (5%), formal papers (70%)

ATTENDANCE: two absences, allowed; five cuts, reduces grade; eight cuts,
terminal.

OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday 10-11:30 Th & F by appointment

ABSENCE REPORTING: The Central Administration has devised a system for
reporting absences: Students are expected to attend all classes; if you expect to
miss one or two classes, please use the University absence reporting website
https://sims.rutgers.edu/ssra/ to indicate the date and reason for your absence.
An email is automatically sent to the instructor.