English 273: Contemporary Literature

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Contemporary Literature		English 273 (Honors)	Sandy Baldwin
		Tuesday, Thursday 1300-1415 46C Stansbury Hall	Department of English 359 Stansbury Hall 293-3107x452 Office Hours: TR 1130-1300


		Texts	Grading
		Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Don DeLillo, The Body Artist John Freyer, All My Life for Sale William Gibson, Pattern Recognition Lyn Hejinian, My Life Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son Larry McCaffery, Ed., Storming the Reality Studio Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 Electronic Reserves [ER] Name=Baldwin, Password=737	Attendence, Participation 15% Weekly Responses due before Thurs class (8/21 bring to class; 8/28 onward post to MIX) 15% Group Presentation 15% 3-4 Page Essay (critical review), due 9/30 20% 5-7 Page Essay (idea/thesis based), due via email to Sandy by 12/9 35%




		8.19.2003	8.21.2003
		Introduction Allen Ginsberg, Howl Robert Duncan, "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow"	Some Poetry circa 1960 John Ashbery, "What is Poetry?" Ashbery, "Some Trees" Charles Olson, "The Distances" [ER] Olson, "Letter 6 (Maxiumus)" [ER] Jack Spicer, "Sporting Life" Spicer, "This Ocean" W. D. Snodgrass, "April Inventory" Snodgrass, "Heart’s Needle" Read all the poems. Choose two (by different authors) and write a single page comparison. Bring it to class.
8.26.2003	8.28.2003	9.2.2003	9.4.2003
Poetics Robert Creeley, "To Define" [ER] Creely, "Olson & Others" [ER] Eugen Gomringer, "From Line to Constellation" Leroi Jones (Imiri Baraka), "How You Sound??" [ER] Jack Spicer, "Second Letter to Federico Garcia Lorca" Spicer, "First Letter (from Admonitions)" Spicer, "Second Letter (from Admonitions)"	Ethnopoetics Jerome Rothenberg's Introduction Introduction to Discourses Alcheringa Statement Rothenberg, "Endangered Languages, Endangered Poetries" Rothenberg, "Total Translation" Heriberto Yépez, "A Sketch on Globalization and Ethnopoetics" Rothenberg performing a "Horse Song" from EPC	Ethnopoetics Poems Visuals Soundings	Concrete Max Bense, "Concrete Poetry" Bense, "Concrete Poetry II" Haraldo de Campos, "Untitled Poem 2" de Campos, "Untitled Poem 3" Eugen Gomringer, "Ping Pong" Gomringer, "Wind" Gomringer , "O" Dick Higgins, "i.e. or Vice Versa"
9.9.2003	9.11.2003	9.16.2003	9.18.2003
Sound Bob Cobbing, "Some Statements on Sound Poetry" Enzo Minarelli, "Manifesto of Polypoetry" UbuWeb Sound (Acconci, Bernstein, Cage, Cale, Chopin, Cobbing, Kerouac, Mac Low, Oppenheim, Piringer, Schwitters, Taylor)	Conceptual UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Intro by Dworkin, Acconci, Baldessari, Bok, Brecht, Burgin, Burgy, Harvey, Morris, Rauschenberg) George Brecht, "Dances, Events, Puzzles" Robert Smithson, "Language to be Looked At and/or Things to be Read" Smithson, "A Heap of Language"	Lyn Hejinian, My Life	Hejinian, My Life
9.23.2003	9.25.2003	9.30.2003	10.2.2003
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities	Calvino, Invisible Cities	Thomas Pynchon, The Cying of Lot 49 Essay 1 Due	Pynchon, The Cying of Lot 49
10.7.2003	10.9.2003	10.14.2003	10.16.2003
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye	Morrison, The Bluest Eye	Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son	Johnson, Jesus' Son
10.21.2003	10.23.2003	10.28.2003	10.30.2003
Larry McCaffery, Ed. Storming the Reality Studio (Intro, "Cyberpunk 101," Baudrillard, Jameson, Leary, McCaffery Interview with Gibson, Sterling's "Preface to Mirrorshades")	No class!	McCaffery, Ed. Storming the Reality Studio (Acker, Ballard, Cadigan, Burroughs, Delaney, DeLillo, Gibson, Hardin, Jaffe)	McCaffery, Ed. Storming the Reality Studio (Jurek, Kadrey, Laidlaw, Leyner, McElroy, Misha, Mooney, O'Barr, Rucker, Shepard, Shiner, Shirley, Sterling ("Twenty Evocations" & "Mare"), Vollmann)
11.4.2003	11.6.2003	11.11.2003	11.13.2003
Don DeLillo, The Body Artist	DeLillo, The Body Artist	William Gibson, Pattern Recognition	Gibson, Pattern Recognition
11.18.2003	11.20.2003	12.02.2003	12.04.2003
John Freyer, All My Life for Sale Keith Obadike's blackness for sale on EBay	Freyer, All My Life for Sale No class Thanksgiving week!	Shelley Jackson, "My Body: A Wunderkammer" Various Authors, "When I am King" Curiosity Olia Lialina, "My Boyfriend Came Back From the War"	Erik Loyer, The Lair of the Marrow Monkey Yael Kanarek, "The World of Awe" Donnie Darko


Updated 11/11/03

Contemporary Literature

English 273 (Honors)

Sandy Baldwin

Texts

Grading

8.19.2003

8.21.2003

8.26.2003

8.28.2003

9.2.2003

9.4.2003

9.9.2003

9.11.2003

9.16.2003

9.18.2003

9.23.2003

9.25.2003

9.30.2003

10.2.2003

Essay 1 Due

10.7.2003

10.9.2003

10.14.2003

10.16.2003

10.21.2003

10.23.2003

10.28.2003

10.30.2003

No class!

11.4.2003

11.6.2003

11.11.2003

11.13.2003

11.18.2003

11.20.2003

12.02.2003

12.04.2003

No class Thanksgiving week!

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