All assigned work for the course must be completed and be of passing quality to pass the course. We will learn collaboratively. I will not lecture at you while you try to stay awake. Therefore, you and your fellow students must all participate in class discussion. This is a new and somewhat experimental course I have designed myself. It is not a course where you can do 70 percent of the work and expect to get a C in the course. To get a C in the course, you need to do 100 percent of the work at a C level. Because of the large number of students in the class, I may not notice if you have not been completing the work until the end of the term. In that case, you will receive an E. To get above a C, you must participate in class discussion.
Requirements: Co-lead class discussion twice, once on a Tuesday and once on a Thursday; two discussion questions and three or more "BIG WORDS" on each reading and / or three descriptions of three film shots for each class; student formulated quizzes each class approved by me in advance; three 650 word papers; and a willingness to reflect, think, respond, by paying very, VERY, VERY close formal attention to texts and films.
FIRST PAPER (TOPICS HERE) DUE Friday January 23 by 11:59 p.m. 650 words.
All required books are in the UF Bookstore and may of course be ordered online.
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Required Readings:
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ed. Joan New and Melvyn New (Editor) (Penguin Classics)
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Oxford World's Classics)
Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (Oxford World's Classics)
Jonathan Siwft, A Table of a Tub and The Battle of the Books (Oxford World's Classics)
Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin [Le Peau de Chagrin, or, transliterated, The Skin of Sorrow] (Oxford World's Classics)
Nikolai Gogol, The Nose
E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr (Penguin)
Jean Paul, A Reader Ed. Timothy J. Case
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (Oxford World's Classics)
Denis Diderot, Jacques le Fataliste (Oxford World's Classics)
Gerard de Nerval, The Salt Smugglers
Nikolai Leskov, "Lefty" in The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories
Miguel De Cervantes, "Dialogue of the Dogs" (Oxford World's Classics) or Melville House
Miguel De Cervantes, Selections on Quixote's library from Don Quixote trans. Tobias Smollet
Viktor Shkolvsky, "The Art of Technique" aka "Art as Device" (Scroll down to chapter one of pdf)
Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience
Lothar Müller, White Magic: The Age of Paper (2014)
W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz (2001)
Molière (Author), Maya Slater (Translator), The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
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Recommended Reading:
Jacques Derrida, Paper Machine
Paul de Man, Aesthetic Ideology
Samuel Johnson, "The Conclusion in which Nothing is Concluded," in The History of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia
Adventures of an Author (1806)
The Adventures of a Pen (1806)
The Adventures of a Quire of Paper (1779)
Thomas Newcomb, Bibliotheca: a poem. Occasion'd by the sight of a modern library. With some very useful episodes, and digressions. London, Printed in the Year 1712.