Schedule
Week 1
Tuesday September 6
Purchase Demian by Hermann Hesse. You can listen to a recording of the book here.
Read Jensen's "Integrity: Without it, Nothing Works."
Distinguishing reading as "reading for" (rhetorical stance): reading for the mimetic, thematic, and synthetic possibilities in a narrative. Draft of Inventory and "reading for" reflective narrative due as a Google Document no later than Thursday, September 8th. Based on your performance in this document, you will be placed into groups.
Begin drafting reading proposal, due Thursday September 15th!
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You can't catch what you can't see, and more importantly, you can't write what you can't read. |
Thursday September 8
Inventory and "reading for" reflective narrative due.
Read: McKee's "Structure and Meaning" Methods: "Summary" |
Work collaboratively on Reading Proposal due Thursday, September 15th
Introduce: register, reading for the mimetic, thematic, and synthetic dimensions of narrative.
The prologue to Demian by Hermann Hesse. |
Week 2
Tuesday September 13
Read Demian by Hermann Hesse, chapters 1, 2 and 3; ideally, complete the book.
Methods: "Graphing Narrative Structure" |
Each group will collaboratively create a graph of the narrative (or select portions of the text to do individually).
For homework, in a collaboratively written Google document, each group will compose a first practice reading due Tuesday September 20th. Included in the first reading: Each group member will create a graph of a different portion of the text (several pages/units) from any chapter. Work collaboratively on Reading Proposal due Thursday, September 15th.
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Thursday September 15
Reading proposal due. In class we will vote on all suggested books and then determine in class the sequence of readings for rest of semester.
Now that we have voted on our remaining three books, purchase them NOW! Assign leader sequence for composing readings for entire semester.
Introduction to second reading. |
Week 3
Tuesday September 20
Read Demian by Hermann Hesse, chapters 6, 7, and 8; that is, complete the book!
Read: Gallop's "Ethics of Reading: Close Encounters" Method: "Close-Reading and Genre" |
Review and comment on first practice reading.
The first stage of closely reading a text involves challenging the rhetorical stance we bring to the reading situation, and allowing the text to appear in all its complexity and sophistication. The second stage asks us to challenge the text from a point of view outside the text. However, before you can challenge a text (or a person for that matter), you have to be able to get the text on its terms. Explore and examine the genre the text participates in and how specific moments in the text "surprise" us by turning away from generic expectations. Use specific textual evidence from the novel.
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Thursday September 22
Prepare to write the second reading.
Week 4
Tuesday September 27
Read:
Mamet's "Countercultural Architecture and Dramatic Structure" |
Review and comment on second practice reading in groups.
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Thursday September 29
Continue to review and comment on second practice reading in groups.
Homework: Your group will collaboratively write the third practice reading. Explore and examine intertextual traces and presuppositions. Use specific textual evidence from the novel.
Homework: Your group will collaboratively write the third practice reading. Explore and examine intertextual traces and presuppositions. Use specific textual evidence from the novel.
Week 5
Tuesday October 4
Recommended reading: Porter's "Intertextuality and the Discourse Community."
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Review and comment on third practice reading in groups, prepare to write fourth practice reading
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Thursday October 6
Read (print, and notate):
Seitz's "A Rhetoric of Reading" |
Continue to review and comment on third practice reading in groups, prepare to write fourth practice reading
Homework: You will collaboratively write the fourth practice reading, exploring and examining the rhetorical relationships between the narrator, addressee, and capable reader in at least one specific instance in the novel. Use specific textual evidence from the novel. |
Week 6
Tuesday October 11
Read (print, and notate):
Seitz's "A Rhetoric of Reading" The narrator, addressee, reader relationships: "The Rhetoric of Narrative" |
Review and comment on fourth practice reading in groups
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Thursday October 13
Prepare to write the first reading for the second book
Week 7
Tuesday October 18
Review "Close-Reading and Genre" and "Getting the Text" to prepare for writing the second reading.
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First reading of second book due; provide comments; prepare to write second reading
To prepare to write the second reading, take a deeper cut at the structure of the text through putting together a "Value Graph," which is a deeper cut at graphing the narrative structure-focusing on a few units of the text.
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Thursday October 20
Review "Intertextual Codes" to prepare for third reading
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Second reading of second book due; prepare to write third reading
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Week 8
Tuesday October 25
Read first half of Silverman's Chapter 6 from The Subject of Semiotics.
Review "Intertextual Codes" to prepare for third reading
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Third reading of second book due; prepare to write the fourth reading.
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Thursday October 27
Complete reading Silverman's Chapter 6 from The Subject of Semiotics.
Review "The Rhetoric of Narrative" to prepare for the fourth reading
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Continue to discuss third reading of second book and prepare to write the fourth reading.
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Week 9
Tuesday November 1
Read first half of Rabinowitz's "Truth in Fiction"
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Fourth reading of second book due; prepare to write the first reading of third book.
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Thursday November 3
Complete reading Rabinowitz's "Truth in Fiction"
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Continue to Discuss fourth reading of second book and prepare to write the first reading of the third book.
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Week 10
Tuesday November 8
Read: Jonathan Culler's "Story and DIscourse."
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First reading of third book due; prepare to write the second reading
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Thursday November 10
Second reading of third book due, prepare to write the third reading
Week 11
Tuesday November 15
Read:
Campbell's "Impact of Science on Myth" and "The Call to Adventure." Recommended: "The Importance of Rites." |
Third reading of third book due, prepare to write the fourth reading
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Thursday November 17
Fourth reading of third book due, prepare to write the first reading of the fourth book
Week 12
Tuesday November 22
First reading of fourth book due.
Thursday November 24 (Thanksgiving Break)
Week 13
Tuesday November 29
Second reading of fourth book due.
Thursday December 1
Third reading of fourth book due.
Week 14
Tuesday December 6
Read: Phelan's Introduction to Living to Tell About It
Thursday December 8
Fourth reading of fourth book due.
Week 15
Tuesday December 13
Workshop: Final Reflection
Wednesday December 14
Reading and Review Day
Final Exam: TBD-- December 15-21