Course Policies
Handouts & Links
Textuality and Culture
Narrative Form
Figurative Language
Intertextuality
Semester Days and Times Room (Tentative course model. Content may change.)
Intertextuality Defined
“Jabberwocky,” Lewis Carroll (handout)
Day 1
Day 2
Peer Critique Workshop—Figurative Language Essay; Bring three copies of completed draft
In-class discussion of intertextual poems—“Dover Beach” and “Dover Bitch”
Intertextual Re-Mythologizing
Day 4
Selected Kiowa Myths (handout)
Excerpt from Way to Rainy Mountain, N. Scott Momaday
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ESSAYS DUE
“The People Could Fly,” folktale (handout)
James Earl Jones reading “The People Could Fly”
Student Presentation—Handbook Term
C’EST MOI PROJECT: Bring in “completed” version of project for peer review; Peers will make suggestions for final revisions
Day 3
Song of Solomon, Ch. 1
Song of Solomon, Ch. 2
Song of Solomon, Chs. 3 & 4
C'EST MOI PROJECT DUE
Song of Solomon, Chs. 5 & 6
Song of Solomon, Chs. 7 & 9
Song of Solomon, Chs. 10-12
Song of Solomon, Chs. 12-Conclusion
Peer Critique Workshop—Song of Solomon Essay
No Class—Writing Day
Song of Solomon Essay Due; Hand back C’Est Moi Project
Celebrate and critique class
No Class