December 13: Narayan (2).
The End.
Early Twentieth-Century Fiction (2016)
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December 13: Narayan (2).
The End.
December 8: Barnes, concluded; Narayan (1).
December 6: Barnes (2).
December 1: Hurston (concluded); Barnes (1).
Commonplace from Barnes. Now look back over your own blog entries (click on your own username) and write a paragraph linking four texts in a chronological narrative that reflects on differences or similarities as historical change or continuity. You can think about either intrinsic history (literature’s forms, genres, methods) or extrinsic history (the more-than-literary horizon) as the frame. Not every story is a story of progress.
November 29: Hurston (2). The New York Times clips are more readable than the versions shown in class. The images from the 1928 Lake Okeechobee Hurricane come from this website of the National Weather Service: https://www.weather.gov/mfl/okeechobee (the slides shown in class had an outdated URL, which has been corrected in the version on Sakai).
November 22: Anand, concluded; Hurston (1).
The essays by Hurston mentioned in lecture, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” and “What White Publishers Won’t Print,” are linked in the slides. They can also be accessed via this link (provided by the RU libraries) to the collection Folk Tales, Memoirs, and Other Writings, edited by Rutgers English profesor Cheryl Wall.
November 17: Anand (2).
November 15: Faulkner, concluded; Anand (1).
November 10: Faulkner (2).
November 8: Faulkner (1).
November 3: Woolf (4).
November 1: Woolf (3).
Choose a single sentence from the second half of Mrs. Dalloway in which someone thinks about what someone else thinks. Commonplace it, citing it and tagging it as usual. Now add a paragraph in which you say everything you can think of about how the sentence works to represent thought: what it assumes, what it implies, what it highlights, what it leaves out; what grammatical resources it uses; what kind of thing “thinking” is in this representation; how this version of thought fits in, or doesn’t, with the rest of the novel; how it relates to the identity of the character thinking; how it represents the way that character represents others; whether it calls for our assent or our skepticism as to the validity of the representation; and so on (as far on as you can)!
You must write the paragraph to receive credit for this blog entry.
I will check the blogs on Tuesday morning. Complete the assignment by 8 a.m.
(Why “mind-reading”? This is the playful name sometimes given to the cognitive task of inferring other people’s intentions or beliefs, which earlier in the course, during our discussion of irony, we called “metarepresentation.”)
October 27: Woolf (2).
October 25: Hemingway (2); Woolf introduced.
October 20: Toomer, concluded; Hemingway (1).
October 18: Toomer (2).
October 13: Sayers (2); Toomer introduced (8 MB download).
Sources for the images are hyperlinked (the link is colored purple) in the slides; they come from the Modernist Journals Project and the Toomer papers at the Beinecke rare book and manuscript library.
October 11: Joyce, concluded; Sayers (1).