I have a seminar on W and Th this week, so tomorrow I don’t have office hours, but I can see you on Friday or Monday. We have voted not to have class on Thursday, so that there is time to work on the Dickinson project and the final exam creative works. We are training in class today for the final exam and Dickinson project (see Becker, p. 336)
Right now, class members are writing a kinanthi, based on Becker, p. 338, to practice for the final exam creative works. Although we use often use poems in class as practice examples, because they are short and holistic, the word “poetry” is a metonymy for all forms of literature for our class purposes.
So far we have examined Shakespeare plays (Lear), Emerson essays (Nature, The Poet), Dickinson poems (various), and Scripture texts (Revelation), as well as Becker’s shadow plays & proverbs, and Watkins’ formulas & figures.
Today we are moving into prose fiction, beginning with the short stories of Isaac B. Singer. The blog post homework for next time is to choose your favorite novel, and analyze it, or a section of it, with principles that you are learning about this semester. Finish reading the Watkins and Becker readings and read ahead for next Tuesday according to the syllabus. See you next Tuesday at 1:00 when we will have class again.
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