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engl 273 - fall 2016

engl 273: remediating narrative
Fall 2016

Required Texts

  • Danielewski, The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May [978-0375714948]
  • Markson, This is Not a Novel [978-1582431338]
  • Nelson, The Red Parts [978-1555977368]
  • Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely [978-1555974077]
  • Ware, Building Stories [978-0375424335] [note: please do not buy this right away. wait until later in the semester]

Date: Reading:
week 1: introduction
8/29 Monday Course Intro, Stokes, ‘No, you’re not entitled to your opinion’
8/31 Wednesday Gallop, ‘The Ethics of Close Reading’
9/2 Friday Faulkner, ‘A Rose for Emily‘
week 2: what might narrative do?
9/5 Monday Labor Day: No Class
9/7 Wednesday Cole, ‘Hafiz,’ and ‘Seven Short Stories About Drones,’ La Force, ‘The Boundary-Pushing Novelist Who’s Made Twitter His New Medium‘
9/9 Friday Kumar, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb, ‘Introduction: Have You Seen This Man?‘
week 3: what might its/our threshold be?
9/12 Monday Foster-Wallace, ‘Good Old Neon‘
9/14 Wednesday Saunders, ‘Escape from Spiderhead‘
9/16 Friday index of love
week 4: intro to autotheory
9/19 Monday Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely 1-60
9/21 Wednesday Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely 61-96, Gay, ‘From the Shelves: Roxane Gay on Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely‘
9/23 Friday Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely 97-131
week 5: autotheory and memoir
9/26 Monday Nelson, The Red Parts 1-74, ‘Interview with Nelson‘
9/28 Wednesday Nelson, The Red Parts 75-132, Excerpt from Bluets
9/30 Friday Nelson, The Red Parts 133-195
week 6: breaking the novel
10/3 Monday Markson, This is Not a Novel 1-75
10/5 Wednesday Markson, This is Not a Novel 76-132
10/7 Friday Markson, This is Not a Novel 133-190
week 7: the (un)familiar
10/10 Monday Mid-Semester Break: No Class
10/12 Wednesday Danielewski, The Familiar 1-99, ‘Danielewski Returns With A Long, Sideways Look At The Familiar‘
10/14 Friday Danielewski, The Familiar 100-235
week 8: more (un)canniness
10/17 Monday Danielewski, The Familiar 236-352, LeClair, ‘The Familiar, by Mark Danielewski‘
10/19 Wednesday Danielewski, The Familiar 353-454
10/21 Friday Danielewski, The Familiar 455-562
week 9: (re)mediating television
10/24 Monday Danielewski, The Familiar 563-655
10/26 Wednesday Danielewski, The Familiar 656-772
10/28 Friday Danielewski, The Familiar 773-880, Sheehan, ‘Will The Familiar Kill the Novel? No, but It Comes Close‘
week 10: w(h)ither television, or, ‘on binging’
10/31 Monday BoJack Horseman Season 1, Poniewozik, ‘Streaming TV Isn’t…’
11/2 Wednesday BoJack Horseman, Kindley, Hu, Maciak, ‘BoJack Horseman Season Three‘
11/4 Friday BoJack Horseman
week 11: complex(?) television
11/7 Monday Mad Men, ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,’ ‘Ladies Room,’ ‘New Amsterdam,’ ‘5G,’ Mittell, ‘Narrative Complexity…’ [optional: Mad Men, ‘Marriage of Figaro’]
11/9 Wednesday Mad Men, ‘Babylon,’ ‘Red in the Face,’ ‘The Hobo Code,’ Auerbach, ‘The Cosmology of Serialized Television’ [optional: Mad Men, ‘Shoot,’ ‘Long Weekend’]
11/11 Friday Mad Men, ‘Indian Summer,’ ‘Nixon vs. Kennedy,’ ‘The Wheel,’ Peterson, ‘Don Draper 101‘
week 12: podcasts
11/14 Monday Alice Isn’t Dead Pt 1 Ch 1-4, Lapidos, ‘I Love Serial Entertainment And So Can You‘
11/16 Wednesday Alice Isn’t Dead Pt 1 Ch 5-8
11/18 Friday Alice Isn’t Dead Pt 1 Ch 9-10
week 13: intro to comics
11/21 Monday McCloud, Understanding Comics [excerpts]
11/23 Wednesday Thanksgiving Break: No Class
11/25 Friday Thanksgiving Break: No Class
week 14: Building Stories
11/28 Monday Ware, Building Stories - Group Exploration
11/30 Wednesday Ware, Building Stories - Group Exploration
12/2 Friday Ware, Building Stories - Large Group Discussion
week 15: building stories
12/5 Monday Ware, Building Stories - Large Group Discussion
12/7 Wednesday Group Presentations
12/9 Friday Group Presentations