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N.B. All secondary readings are required for Seminar Presenters and recommended for all students | ||
September | 7 |
Introduction: “Is it a Genre?”
Wolfe, Tom."The Birth of 'The New Journalism'; Eyewitness Report by Tom Wolfe." February 14, 1972, New York Magazine. (The New Journalism. New York: Harper and Row, 1973. 1-52) |
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Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (Vintage 1965)
David S. Caudill, "The Year of Truman Capote: Legal Ethics and In Cold Blood." Oregon Law Review. 86.2 (2007): 295-328. By George Plimpton, "The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel." Interview with Truman Capote. New York Times, January 16, 1966. Additional Sources
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21 | Barry Callghan reading 12-2 pm at Paul Delaney Gallery in Bethune. He'll be reading from his new book of essays Raise You Twenty and will talk about his career as journalist, writer and publisher.
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John Hersey, Hiroshima (Bantam 1946) Sharp, Patrick B. “"From Yellow Peril to Yellow Wasteland: John Hersey's Hiroshima"” Twentieth Century Literature 46.4 (2000): 434 - 452. Yavenditti, Michael J. "John Hersey and the American Conscience: The Reception of Hiroshima." Pacific Historical Review 43.1 (1974): 24-49. Hersey, John. “The Legend on the Licence.” The Yale Review 75 (Winter 1986): 289-314. Hersey, John. "The Novel of Contemporary History." The Atlantic 184 (Nov 1949): 80-84. Reprinted in The Writer's Book, ed. Helen Hull (NewYork: Harper and Brothers, 1950): 23-30. |
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October | 5 |
Capote and Hersey Seminars (How To Present Effective Seminars) First Short Essay Due: Descriptive Writing Assignment and Examples |
12 | READING WEEK: NO CLASS | |
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James Agee, Let us now Praise Famous Men (Houghton Mifflin 1939). Jackson, Bruce. “The Deceptive Anarchy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.” The Antioch Review 57.1 Winter (1999): 38-49. Reed, T.V. “Unimagined Existence and the Fiction of the Real: Postmodern Realism in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men .” Representations 24 (Fall 1988): 156-76. Schultz, William Todd. “Off-Stage Voices in James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Reportage as Covert Autobiography.” American Imago 56.1 (1999): 75-104. Cosgrove, Peter. "Snapshots of the Absolute: Mediamachia in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." American Literature 67.2 (June 1995): 329 - 357. |
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Agee seminars
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November | 2 |
Lilian Ross, Portrait of Hemingway (Random House 1961)
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9 | Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Noonday Press 1968) Read: "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream"; "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"; and "On Going Home." Harrison, Barbara. "Joan Didion: Only Disconnect." Schlib, John. "Deconstructing Didion: Poststructuralist Rhetorical Theory in Composition Class." Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy. Ed. by Chris Anderson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1989. 262 - 287. Heilker, Paul. "The Struggle For Articulation and Didion's Construction of the Reader's Self-Respect in Slouching Toward Bethlehem." Critic 54.3 |
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16 | Ross and Didion seminars |
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Seminars: 25 Years of the Canadian Magazine Awards |
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30 | Proposal
Development: Library Research Seminar
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January | 4 |
Lecture on Mas'ud Zavarzadeh The Mythopoeic Reality Mas'ud Zavarzadeh "The Apocalyptic Fact and the Aclipse of Fiction in Recent American Prose Narrative." Journal of American Studies 9.1 (1975) 69-83. See also: On line resources for PDF. |
11 | Norman
Mailer, Armies of the Night: History as a Novel,
The Novel as History. (New American Library, 1968) Tonn, Horst. "Making Sense of Contemporary Reality: The Construction of Meaning in the Nonfiction Novel." Historiographic Metafiction in Modern American and Canadian Literature.Ed. by Bernd Engler and Kurt Muller. Hellmann, John. "Journalism as Metafiction: Norman Mailer's Strategy for Mimesis and Interpretation in a Postmodern World." Fables of Fact: The New Journalism as New Fiction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981. 35 - 65. White, Hayden. "The Modernist Event." The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television and the Modern Event. Ed. by Vivian Sobchack. New York: Routledge, 1996. 17 - 39. Essay Proposals ready for peer review |
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James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother Essay Proposals due |
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McBride and Mailer Seminars
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February | 1 |
Art
Spiegelman, Maus I: My Father Bleeds History (Pantheon
1986). OR Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis (Pantheon 2003) Young, James. "The Holocaust as Vicarious Past: Art Spiegelman's Maus and the Afterimages of History." Critical Inquiry 24.3 (1988): 666 - 700. Wilner, Arlene. ""Happy, happy ever after": Story and History in Art Spiegelman's Maus." Journal of Narrative Technique 27.2 (1997): 171 - 189. Iadonisi, Rick. "Bleeding History and Owning His [Father's] Story: Maus and Collaborative Autobiography." Critic 57.1: 41 - 55. Staub, Michael. "The Shoah Goes On and On: Rememberance and Representation in Art Speigelman's Maus." MELUS 20.3 (Autumn 1995): 33 - 46. White, Hayden. "the modernist event." The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television and the Modern Event. Ed. by Vivian Sobchack. New York, 1996. 17 - 38. Hirsch, Marianne. "Family Pictures: Maus, Mourning and Post-Memory." Discourse 15.2 (Winter 1992-93): 3 - 29 Malek, Amy. “Memoir as Iranian exile cultural production: A case study of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis series.” Iranian Studies 39. 3 (September 2006): 353-380 Davis, Rocío G. “A Graphic Self.” Prose Studies 27. 3 (December 2005) 264-279. |
8 | Maus and Persepolis Seminars | |
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John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Vintage 1994). Huddelston, Eugene L. "Literary Nonfiction: Extending Its Definition." The Midwest Quarterly 33 (Spring 1992): 340 - 356. Kanner, Melinda. "Savannah After Midnight." The Gay and Lesbian Review (May-June 2002): 22 - 23. Dufresne, Marcel. "Why Midnight May Be Darker Than You Think." Columbia Journalism Review 37.1 (May-June 1998): 78 -79. |
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22 | Reading Week | |
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Lynn
Crosbie, Paul's Case (Insomniac Press 1997). Marchand, Philip. "Confession and Critique: The Work of Lynn Crosbie." Essays on Canadian Writing 73 (Spring 2001): 141 - 150. Crosbie, Lynn. "Loving the Killer: Where Art and Life Don't Meet." This Magazine 28.7 (March-April 1995): 12 - 15. Crosbie, Lynn. "Lynn's Case: Interview By Kerri Huffman." Taddle Creek. |
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March | 7 | Essay Workshop |
14 | Berendt and Crosbie Seminars | |
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Final
Essays Due
Open Seminars |
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28 | Exam review |