Don Quixote and European Novel

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Fall 2023

ENG4953 (28615) Senior Sem for Majors

Section 8RB4

Don Quixote and the European Novel

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Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:35-11:45 and Thursdays 11:40-1:00, and by appointment.

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Course Description

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A and B Below are Due the Day Before Each Class by 5:00 p.m.:

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B. Two BIG WORDS

Co-Leading Class

M W F Period 2

UF Class Period Times

Should College Come With Trigger Warnings? At Cornell, It’s a ‘Hard No.’

Professor Richard Burt

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Penn State fully supports the fundamental right of free speech – even speech that tests the limits of tolerance.

An open letter written in March by Jenny Martinez, dean of Stanford University Law School, in which she affirmed her decision to apologize to Stuart Kyle Duncan, a Donald Trump-appointed federal appeals judge, after hecklers interrupted his speech.

Nothing Below is Required for this Course. You Are Free to Stop Reading Here and Now.

I don't do trigger warnings. However, I do do spoilers.

Talking Heads - Krzysztof Kieslowski

Aristotle, On Sophistical Refutations

Translated by W. A. Pickard-Cambridge

Administration grows, faculty shrinks. Again. JUNE 12, 2023

Michelle Ty, Introduction: Higher Education on Its Knees
Qui Parle Vol. 20, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2011), pp. 3-32

Marjorie Perloff, The Decay of a Discipline: Reflections on the English Department Today
Qui Parle Vol. 20, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2011), pp. 153-167

Penn State fully supports the fundamental right of free speech – even speech that tests the limits of tolerance. Free speech and expression of ideas are essential to higher education’s academic and civic missions.

Should College Come With Trigger Warnings? At Cornell, It’s a ‘Hard No.’

Jeannie Suk Gersen, "What if Trigger Warnings Don’t Work?" September 28, 2021

Jon Ronson, How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life Feb. 12, 2015

Becoming a "better" reader will not make you a better person. Reading closely is about a desire to understand and appreciate the work. It is not about getting "the most" out of your experience.

"Temp" Music: The Marvel Symphonic Universe

Full Circle Narrative via Flashback: Film-Noir | Not Wanted(1949, Ida Lupino)

Les coulisses de la construction de la salle Labrouste sous le Second Empire | Le blog de Gallica

Paintings In Movies: From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Portrait of a Lady on Fire

When Citizen Kane met Bambi : The Lost Paintings of Tyrus Wong [CONTAINS SPOILERS]

World War III #1: 1952 War Comic

Atomic War Issue #1 (Ace Comics) 1952

UNE VIE, UNE ŒUVRE (FRANCE CULTURE)

Blow Up, l'actualité du cinéma (ou presque) - ARTE

Ingmar Bergman en musiques - Blow Up - ARTE

The-history-of-literature/

The Holberg Lecture 2016: Stephen Greenblatt: "Shakespeare's Life-making"

How They RIGGED It All: A Corporate Law Professor Explains (w/ Jon Hanson) 2023

Jeffery Sachs | We WILL NEVER KNOW PEACE AGAIN (2023)

Popular Instagram A I Fraud (2023)

Cabinet Magazine

"This Film Does Not Exist" NY TIMES JANUARY 13, 2023 On Jodorowski's plans for Tron and A.I. imaging of film.

Go, Dog. Go! (1961)

Russell Jacoby "A Climate of Fear The free speech skeptics abandon Salman Rushdie" Harper's (March, 2023)

“She Showed a Prophet’s Image, and Divided a College Campus” (front page, Jan. 8, 2023) And she got fired.

Why you should absolutely be for free speech. Srsly.

'Mighty Ira' Documentary Trailer

Ira Glasser, Free Speech and the ACLU

Hannah Arendt diagramming Hegel

--V. F. Perkins

On Teaching

"You make it up as you go along."

Seiji Ozawa,‎ Absolutely on Music: Conversations (2016), pp. 67-70; 98-101; 233-238; 285-322.

On Creating and Collaboration

You make it without preparing.

--Jim Jarmusch (time:stamp 23:00)

Basic Terms of Music (including scale, melody, harmony, time signature, rythm, downbeat, fugue, among others)

Colin Marshall, "Music Meets Writing: On Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa."

--David Hume

Ir-Responsible Reading

--Martin Heidegger, "The Thing"

Martin Heidegger on the hermeneutic circle, writing in hermeneutic circles.

Maurice Blanchot on the vicious circle, writing in vicious circles. "Noli me legere"

the spiral

Gould Gould: Mozart in one minute

Johnny Thunders, "You can't put your arms around a memory" 1978

Pavement, "Silence Kid" 1994

U.S. Propaganda in one minute

Why Should You Be for Free Speech?

Mighty Ira: Ira Glasser, Free Speech and the ACLU Tmestamp31:00 on

Mighty Ira Documentary Trailer

Essential Viewing: Russell Brand On Trump and Free Speech

If you’re mildly conservative on Twitter, you’re Hitler | Ricky Gervais

The Free Speech Movement

2020-12-16/fifty-years-of-tax-cuts-for-rich-didn-t-trickle-down-study-says

"Music is the space between the notes."

--Claude Debussy or Miles Davis

Guy J. Williams, "Harkness Learning: Principles of a Radical American Pedagogy"

Harkness table

Nonsite.org

The Second Civil War (dir. Joe Dante, 1997)

2001 A Space Odyssey 4K

Wall Street is diversity-inclusion-belonging

https://www.nasdaq.com

NASDAQ

"Happiness has no story."

--Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

'Mighty Ira' Documentary Trailer

Ira Glasser, Free Speech and the ACLU

Bayardtalkaboutbooksyouhavenotreadprefacechapterone.pdf

bayard-how_to_talk_about.pdf

Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, Chapters 100 and 114 in Volume One and Chapter 29 in Volume .

You already know how: Mr Robot ending S4E10: 410

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/arts/television/mr-robot-episode-10-recap.html

One of the most important books on one of the most horiffic chapters in American History you never ever knew about:

Eric Foner Reconstruction-Americas-Unfinished-Revolution

Eric Foner, "Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?"

History Workshop, Spring, 1984, No. 17 pp. 57-80

Rosa Luxemburg, The Mass Strike, the Political Party
and the Trade Unions (1906)

Obama: 'We tortured some folks'

Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq

Happy ending or sad ending: Dom and Darlene are going to go to
Budapest, then Dom changes her mind, then Darlene does not use her
ticket and does not board the plane. Cross cutting as Dom runs back to the gate. Music Carly Rae Jepsen "Run Away
with Me" on E.Mo.Tion album Darlene is in the
bathroom having a panic attack. So you think it's going to be a happy
ending. But last shot reveals the empty seat next to Dom. Music
still playing.

So students. You already know how to read by genre. Happy ending--or
shock from happy ending withheld. Only upbeat is Darlene calming down
and saying to herself in the mirror "I can take care of myself."

http://watch-mr-robot-season-4-episode-10-tvshow.over-blog.com/hompilya6a

"It's policy." No exceptions. (No sovereignty either.) [Dark/Web] episode 7 (2019)

Michael Kiwanuka - Cold Little Heart

Big Little Lies: Season 1 Opening Credits | HBO

Climate Change: what do you want me to say?

Adam Ruins Everything - Why Billionaire Philanthropy is Not So Selfless | truTV

Sandy Hook Promise 'Back-to-School' PSA

Sandy Hook Promise: Gun violence warning signs

Direct Knowledge (Information; myth) vs. Oblique Knowledge ([Deniable] Analogy; Philosophy and Literature)

Kevin Baker, "The Deep State of Dementia" From the September 2019 issue pdf

"First of all, they're all psychopaths."

Cardi B: I Became a Stripper to Escape Domestic Violence

Agnotology: Culturally Constructed Ignorance Wins the Day
By Barry Ritholtz

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/06/the-unendurable-horrors-of-leadership-camp

"The company eagerly cultivates an academic aura, and the facility is
referred to as its “campus.” The campus bookstore sells dozens of
business books, of the kind ubiquitous in airport newsstands. Typical
selections included The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle:
How to Become a Servant Leader (featuring a jacket blurb from the
Senior Vice President of Operations for Chik-fil-a) and Leading with
Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit. Alas, they did not have my
favorite managerial tome of all time, If Harry Potter Ran General
Electric: Leadership Wisdom from the World Of Wizards, which is a
genuine, honest-to-God book that you can look up and purchase."

Please don't be hard on your grad student teachers:

Why adjunct professors are struggling to make ends meet

Btw, don't even think of going to graduate school to get a Ph.D in English--or any other kind of--literature.

ANDREW KAY," Academe's Extinction Event: Failure, Whiskey,
and Professional Collapse at the MLA," May 10, 2019

Back in the MLA

Stephen Marche, a survivor of academia, returns to a troubled field

Dan Cohen, "The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper: University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves" The Atlantic May 2019

What is a "strong woman?" Who is a "strong woman?" A corporate oligarch funded by Wall Street and former prosecutor? Or a combat veteran funded by individual donors?

Check these out:

Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor' Lara Bazelon, NY Times, January 17 2019

Former DNC vice chair: Democratic primary was 'rigged' for Clinton

Tulsi Gabbard Calls Assange’s Arrest A Blow To Transparency And Free Press

Morning Joe Attacks Tulsi For Opposing War (Time Stamp 3:30)

Tulsi Gabbard challenges Kamala Harris record as a prosecutor | full exchange

Harris dismisses Gabbard attack: I'm a top-tier candidate, she's at 0 or 1 percent

Watch Tulsi Gabbard's interview with Anderson Cooper

Tulsi Gabbard: Kamala Harris 'didn't give any answers'

Gabbard to MSNBC Host: These Are Talking Points Kamala Harris And Her Campaign Are Feeding You

Some "strong women" = mean girls? Tulsi Gabbard Takes On Kamala | The View

Tulsi Gabbard Says Kamala Harris' Jab Was 'Pathetic' and 'Cheap Smear' | TMZ

Mueller Testimony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EbrfiAxjY0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6CYXdspaBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfFtq8C_1_4

LP - Lost On You [Official Video]

Judith Herman, Healing the Incest Wound

Heirich von Kleist, "On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking"

STEAM, not STEM (The "A" stands for "Arts," as in Liberal Arts.)

If Students Are Smart, They’ll Major in What They Love

How to Think Like Shakespeare

Free Movies Streaming Online at UF Kanopy

Criterion Films on Hulu Plus

Missing UF Faculty (mostly from English)

Thinking of Going to Law School?

Feminists clash over strip club industry – as dancers protest to save jobs

Rene Descartes, Part Three of Discourse on the Method

Student Co-Leaders:

When you prepare to co-lead, send the final draft of your notes to me via google docs at least twenty-hours before class begins.

Fables of School Reform

Hamlet, In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the inspiration for Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play's context and meaning, and why it has fascinated audiences from its first performance.

The Best Years Of Our Lives 1946 music and image

domed bookshelf

Gadaj?ce g?owy/Talking Heads (1980)

William Wordsworth, THE PRELUDE

BOOK TWELFTH

IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOW IMPAIRED AND RESTORED

There are in our existence spots of time,
          That with distinct pre-eminence retain
          A renovating virtue, whence--depressed                     210
          By false opinion and contentious thought,
          Or aught of heavier or more deadly weight,
          In trivial occupations, and the round
          Of ordinary intercourse--our minds
          Are nourished and invisibly repaired;
          A virtue, by which pleasure is enhanced,
          That penetrates, enables us to mount,
          When high, more high, and lifts us up when fallen.

I remember well,

That once, while yet my inexperienced hand

Could scarcely hold a bridle, with proud hopes

I mounted, and we journeyed towards the hills:

An ancient servant of my father's house

Was with me, my encourager and guide: 230

We had not travelled long, ere some mischance

Disjoined me from my comrade; and, through fear

Dismounting, down the rough and stony moor

I led my horse, and, stumbling on, at length

Came to a bottom, where in former times

A murderer had been hung in iron chains.