Schedule

Monday, October 2

• Introduction to English 10LCI: Artists, Creation, Technology and Structure
• Introduction to close reading

 

Wednesday, October 4

• N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines
• Readings due:

• Writing Machines, Preface, Chapters 1-3
• brose lexicon linkmap (click on Writing Machines web supplement link)

 

Monday, October 9

• The poetry of William Blake
• Readings due:
  • browse the different editions of Songs of Innocence and Experience in the William Blake Archive
  • read especially: “Infant Joy,” “The Shepherd,” “The Chimney Sweeper” (both versions), “The Little Black Boy,” “London,” “The Tyger”
• Paraphrase of a Blake poem due.

“Infant Joy”: Copy C, Copy F, Copy L, Copy R, Copy V

“Little Black Boy”: Copy C, Copy F, Compare All Images
“Little Black Boy” (continued): Compare All Images

“The Chimney Sweeper,” Songs of Innocence, Compare
“The Chimney Sweeper,” Songs of Experience, Compare

“London,” Compare All Images

“The Tyger,” Compare All Images

“The Shepherd,” Compare All Images

 

Wednesday, October 11

• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
• Readings due:
  • 1831 Preface (169-173)
  • Frankenstein, Volume I (7-58)
• Close Reading I due.

 

Monday, October 16

• Special Guest Lecture: Intellectual Property
• Readings due:
  • Frankenstein, Volume II (59-101)

 

Wednesday, October 18

• Readings due:
  • Frankenstein, Volume III (103-156)
  • 1818 Preface to Frankenstein (5-6)
• Special Response due (extra credit): Critical response to Monday’s IP talk.
• Close Reading II due by 3pm on Friday in my Sankey room mailbox. (extension from original date)

Paper I Topics

Grading Rubric

Sample Use of Quotation

First Paper Handout

Monday, October 23

• Frankenstein
• Readings due:
  • watch Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein, online
  • Barbara Johnson, “My Monster/My Self.” (241-251)
• Draft thesis statement due.

 

Wednesday, October 25

• Class meets in Transcriptions Lab, second floor of South Hall

• Readings due:
  • Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl (available for viewing in the Transcriptions Lab)
  • Writings Machines, Chapter 7
• Due: Introduction and outline for paper due.
• Reading Response to Patchwork Girl:
  1.  Spend half an hour to an hour “reading” Patchwork Girl.
  2.  Make a list of all the images you find and bring list to class.
  3.  Post a response 1) describing your experience of reading the novel, 2) what you think Jackson’s message is and 3) one question you have for discussion.

 

Monday, October 30
Class meets in Transcriptions Lab, second floor of South Hall

• Robot Stories screening
• Due: Paper I

 

Wednesday, November 1

• Robot Stories screening

 

Monday, November 6

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Readings due:
  • Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1-62)

 

Wednesday, November 8

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Readings Due:
  • Performance Adaptations (150-180)
  • Katherine Linehan, “Sex, Secrecy, and Self-Alienation” (204-213)

 

Monday, November 13

• Readings due:
  • On the Eidophusikon (handout from class)
  • Milton, excerpt from Paradise Lost, the building of Pandemonium
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan“
  • Look at hypertext version of “Kubla Khan”

 

Wednesday, November 15

• Readings due
  • Writing Machines, Chapter 5
  • George Herbert, “The Altar” and ”Easter Wings“: (plaintext version of “Easter Wings“)
  • Bob Grumman, “MNMLST Poetry“
  • Peter Howard, “A Poppy“
  • Dan Waber, “Strings“

 

Monday, November 20
MEET IN GAVIOTA-PHELPS 1529

• Writing Workshop
• Due: Complete Draft of Paper II

 

Wednesday, November 22

• No class meeting. Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Monday, November 27

• Readings due:
  • Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” print version

 

Wednesday, November 29

• Paper II due. 
• Readings due:
  • “The Garden of Forking Paths,” hypertext version
  • Jorge Luis Borges, “Borges and I,” plaintext and hypertext versions

Friday, December 1

• Due: one paragraph description of your web project, posted to online forum by 5pm Friday, December 1.

Monday, December 4

• Readings due:
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses“
  • Emily Dickenson, “On this wondrous sea“
  • Walt Whitman, “The Untold Want“
  • John Perry Barlow, “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace“

Wednesday, December 6

Presentation of Final Projects.
Please note: in lieu of meeting during the final exam period, this class meeting will be extended to 6pm.  Those of you who have a class to attend may present earlier in the period and leave when necessary, but otherwise please make arrangements to stay until as late as 6pm.