Notes for 26 January 2016
LITCS 114
Teaching Associate: Patrick Mooney
Bldg. 494, room 160B
Winter 2016
- Administratrivia
- We're a third of the way through the quarter! Wow!
- Everyone's blog is listed on the course website.
- Remember that you must have made half (rounding up if relevant) of your mandatory blog posts for the quarter by next Saturday. If you're taking the class for more than one unit, it would be wise to write one this week.
- Remember that these pieces do not have to be perfect gems, though they can be. Remember that you are quite likely experimenting with new forms and that mistakes are valuable learning experiences.
- So was there a consensus? Did we want to go back to Stein, or move on?
- Some possible passages for reading and discussion of fine points of style:
- 37–39:
The good Anna had high ideals [...] A sad disgrace did once happen [...] Innocent blind old Baby [...] an arduous and troubled life.
- 66–67:
In friendship, power always has its downward curve. [...] this was not the right way for her friend to do.
- So many things to talk about with Heaney. What do we want to do?
- First, what do you know about Irish history? Brief discussion?
- Some places to look:
Requiem for the Croppies
(OG 23), Casualty
(OG 147–50), Act of Union
(N 49–50)
- Some options.
- The management of bodies:
The Outlaw
(OG 19), Casualty
(OG 147–50), Clearances
(OG 282–290)
- Structuring narratives for women's lives:
Clearances
(OG 282–290), The Wishing Tree
(OG 282–290)
- Violence, embodiment, sexuality in the bog poems
- Discourse, politics, the sayable, poetry:
From the Frontier of Writing
(OG 274), From the Republic of Conscience
(OG 276–77), From the Canton of Expectation
(OG 295–296)
- Today's whiteboard snapshots