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Course Information:
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Faculty Information:
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Catalog ID: Section: Term: Fall 2012
496-01
Course Name:
Contemporary Literature
Course Prerequisite(s):
Meeting Day(s): Meeting Time(s):
Tues. & Thurs. 2:00-3:20
Class Location:
Kinney Hall 208
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Faculty Name:
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis
Phone:
Email:
Skartsonis@ccad.edu
Office Hours:
Tuesday,Thursday: 11:00-12:30
Office Location:
Kinney 201
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H 08/30 Introduction. Discussion of contemporary literatures. What makes a poem: This is Just to Say and The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams
Week 09/04
T 09/04 WCM discussion continued. Read bio. and the following poems (Asphodel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, and Spring and All) on this site. Also, to the left margin, there is a string of essays discussing the poet and the period. Look to those for some ways to discuss and write about these issues. As we discussed in class, Imagism plays a part in Williams' treatment of subjects. We will talk about that in class a bit, but feel free to review the essay on Imagism.
H 09/06 Robert Frost video (sentence sounds, formal poetry vs. free verse like tennis with the net down)
Week of 09/11
T 09/11 Introduction to Modernism. Ezra Pound. T.S. Eliot. Wallace Stevens.
Homework: Readings: Ezra Pound, bio and poems T.S. Eliot bio and the following poems:
The Wasteland and Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. They will likely feel a bit difficult, we'll discuss them in class, of course, but I will want you to read them first.
Also, really consider attending this. This is one of those incredible artists
Aurora Robson
multimedia artist Wednesday, Sept. 12, 7 p.m. Canzani Center Auditorium
Aurora Robson is a multimedia artist known for her transformative use of plastic debris, excess packaging, and junk mail as artmaking material. A Canadian, Robson has lived and worked in New York City for the past 21 years. As a “subtle yet determined environmental activist” and advocate for plastic pollution awareness, she has exhibited all over the United States and Europe and is the founding artist of Project Vortex, an international collective of artists, designers and architects who also work with plastic debris. Her exhibition Sacrifice + Bliss is at Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens from Sept. 9-April 28.
Visit her website, http://aurorarobson.com/
This program is free and open to the public. If you would like to support programs like this, please donate any amount online (choose the "exhibitions and visiting artists & scholars" option).
H 09/13 Readings discussed.
Homework: Your first assignment will involve an imitation piece or series (500 word minimum) of the Modernists. The work can be in a variety of forms (essay, poetry, formal, etc.) as long as it meets the word count. One way to tackle this might be to write a poem by the light of one of these pieces and then to write a short letter or essay piece that describes your process: how you worked from the imitation and how you worked away from or against it. It will be due a week from today (09/20)
Read Wallace Stevens, bio. and all poems. He might be very helpful for your imitations so read him early.
Week of 09/18
T 09/18 Wallace Stevens.
Week of 09/18
T 09/18 Wallace Stevens.
H 09/20 Discussion and turn in of your Modernist pieces.
Homework: Read the following sections in this link for The Fountainhead: Plot overview, context and themes and motifs. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/fountainhead/context.html
As well as the essay Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. These readings will relate to two of our
visitors: Todd Slaughter’s American Primitives show on Sept. 27 and author,
Benjamin Anastas’ reading on Friday, Oct. 19th. Please plan to
attend both.
Week of 09/25
T 09/25 Discussion: Emerson’s Self-Reliance
Todd Slaughter: American
Primitives Sept. 27–Nov. 8, 2012 Opening Reception: Sept. 27, 6–9 p.m.
Canzani Center Gallery Free & Open to the
Public
Over the last 12
years Todd Slaughter’s artwork has addressed the perception that safety is
synonymous with isolation and privilege in the gated communities of suburbia
and urban high-rises. This specific aspect of American identity is but one
point on a trajectory that, in the end, lands in the darkest of places. Through
a series of sculptural tableaux, American
Primitives points out parallels between the American
individualism defined by Thoreau and Emerson and its evil twin, isolationist
groups who feel that they, too, are manifesting core American values.
Slaughter is a
former CCAD faculty member who is currently a professor at Ohio State
University. His work has been given a major retrospective at the Chicago
Cultural Center, as well as exhibitions in numerous galleries and museums.
Permanent public works can be found in the Midway Airport, Chicago, and
Tarifa/Algeciras, Spain.
H 09/27
Homework: (Due 10/16) Using
the writings of Emerson. Write a letter to the editor of an imaginary newspaper
as an invented character responding to the work directly or the way the notions
behind it or Rand (or I can even allow for Thoreau, if you’d like) are working
for or against “you” (as your character). We’ll flesh out this idea more in
class, but plan on a 500 word minimum where your “character” tells a bit about
him/herself and how the ideas in one of those works or in other more recent
writings have impacted him/her. If you’re
using another speech or text, make sure you provide the original or a source
for it. Then, you will be inventing a second character, one with a very
different or contrasting, even opposing viewpoint, to respond to your original
character. (250 words or more) Have fun with this. Name your newspaper, your
town, really try to imagine these lives. For inspiration, consider Lynch’s Interview Project:
http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/www/#/route
Week of 10/02
T 10/02 Formal Poetry: Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Robert Hayden
Homework: Readings: Frost, Hughes, Bishop, Moore.
Look over these
forms: sestina, sonnet, and villanelle,
and begin to decide which you will imitate (and discuss in a 300 word minimum
formal letter to your readers). We will
look over some examples for both components of this assignment: due 10/11.
Read:
Everyday Use by Alice Walker. Cathedral by Raymond Carver. (Walker to be
discussed Thurs. and Carver a week from today.
H10/04 Discussion Walker
Week of 10/09
T 10/09 Discussion
Carver
Homework:
Read
William Harrison’s Present Tense Africa from your Touchstone Anthology p.220
H10/11 Discussion
Harrison. Formal poems due today.
Week of 10/16
T 10/16 Letters to the Editor Due.
Homework:
Read Benjamin Anastas’ essay here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/riff-ralph-waldo-emerson.html?pagewanted=all
(Review
Emerson, if need be.)
H 10/18 Discussion Anastas, etc.
Visiting artist/author:
Benjamin Anastas author Friday, Oct. 19, 6:30 p.m. Canzani Center Auditorium Benjamin Anastas is the author of two highly regarded novels, and his memoir,Too Good to Be True, will be published in fall 2012. His short fiction has been published in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and GQ, while his criticism and essays have appeared regularly in Bookforum, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, and The New York Observer. Anastas’ essay "The Foul Reign of Emerson's 'Self-Reliance,'" first published in The New York Times Magazine, appears in the exhibition catalog for American Primitives and will be included inThe Best American Essays 2012.
Week of 10/23
T 10/23 NY School Readings.
H 10/25 Discussion
Homework: Charles
Bukowski readings
At your
leisure:
http://bukowski.net/poems/
Week of 10/30
T 10/30 NY School discussion,
Bukowski.
Homework: Eula Bliss The Pain Scale (p. 2, Touchstone)
H 11/01 Discussion: The Lyric Essay through Bliss’
essay.
Homework: Selected readings: Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath,
Robert Lowell.
T 11/06 The Confessionalists
H 11/08 Discussion
continued
Homework: Reading: Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin,
Michael Cunningham’s White Angel,
Poetry
Comics article,
**Your
ekphrastic pieces and process papers (500 words minimum) are due on Tuesday
11/20.
The short
version of this assignment is that you will be responding or imitating a piece
of literature through visual art. Examples abound: W.H. Auden’s Musee de Beaux
Art or WCW’s Icarus (myth-painting-poem).
Or Charles Simic’s poems that respond to Joseph Cornell’s boxes (for the
reverse). Consider the poetry poem: http://www.tcj.com/a-bianca-stone-interview/
Week of 11/13
T
11/13 TBA I will be giving a reading at Florida
Southern College (and representing CCAD)
Your class plans are forthcoming.
H 11/15
TBA
Week of 11/20
T 11/20 Discussion.
Ekphrastic pieces to be presented. Process papers (only) to be turned in to me.
H 11/22
THANKSGIVING BREAK! Safe travels
and happy Thanksgiving!
Week of 11/27
T
11/27 Group Presentations of
Essays from Touchstone Anthology. (There will be an oral and written component
for each group member. More details forthcoming.)
H
11/29 Group Presentations
continued
T 12/03 Group
Presentations
H 12/05 TBA
T12/10 “”
H 12/12 Last day of semester.
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