Notes for 19 January 2016
Teaching Associate: Patrick Mooney
LITCS 114
Bldg. 494, room 160B
Winter 2016
- Thought for the day: Theodore Roethke's
The Waking
: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172106
- Administratrivia:
- The GSA Excellence in Teaching Award is open for nominations. This is an award recognizing grad students for the pedagogical work they do. If you know a grad student who's impacted your life substantially, nominating her/him for this is a thoughtful gesture that might net them recognition and a bit of extra money.
- Lest you think I'm just finish for a nomination, let me tell you that I'm ineligible for the award because ... you can only win it once. But do recognize other grad students who have been important to you.
- Note for Thursday's reading: it's not as long as you might think. Check the syllabus carefully and think about which parts of it have been actually assigned.
- Presentation: Patrick Mooney, part III of Foucault's The History of Sexuality, vol. 1
- Handout here.
- My intent is to model good (well ... decent, anyway) practices for grad presentations. My own handout is intended to be a typically problematic handout that exhibits my own neurotic tendencies.
- You'll probably see my personal faults shine through. I'm human too and trying to convey that.
- Back to The Awakening
- What moments of confession occur in the novel? How do they operate?
- Edna's confession of love for Robert: 81; ch. 26
- p. 96, ch. 33: Does Arobin boast of his successes? No, but his character is known.
- How is Edna's identity medicalized?
- Mr. Pontellier's conversation with Doctor Mandelet, ch 22: esp. 65:
Madame Polntellier not well? [...] we meet in the morning at the breakfast table
- Dr Mandelet:
Nothing hereditary?
(66)
- The old Colonel,
convinced [...] he had bequeathed to all of his daughters the germs of a masterful capability
(68; ch. 23)
- Edna's revolt against
the ways of nature
after Mme. Ratignolle's labor (110; ch. 37).
- What meta-narratives does Edna find herself playing out? Where in the text do you find evidence of this?
- How is Edna's experience with understimulation similar to/different from that of the protagonist in
The Yellow Wall-Paper
? How is it connected to her experience of artistry?
- How does Edna understand her own identity at the end of the novel?
- What is the connection between identity, sexuality, and death in the novel?
- Edna's response to desire: ch. 27–28, p. 83
- Ownership and identity in the novel: many places, but perhaps esp. 107–08.
- Today's whiteboard snapshots