First Response Online: Reflections on Representations of Technology
Tuesday January 11- Gothic
Novel
Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
Author's
Introduction and Volume I
Terms:
antihero, Enlightenment, Gothic Novel, humanism
Second Response Paper Due: Science, Nature &
the Supernatural
Thursday January 13 - Frankenstein,
Volume II
Terms: antithesis, persona, tone and voice
Tuesday January 18 - Frankenstein,
Volume III
"Mary
Shelley's Monstrous Eve" by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar (reader)
Terms:
feminist criticism, point of view
Third Response Paper Due: Man's Relationship to
Technology
Thursday January 20 - Hypertext
Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson (must be read in the
lab)
"Cyborg Manifesto" by Donna Haraway (reader)
Terms: psychological and psychoanalytical criticism, postcolonial
studies
Tuesday January 25 -
Short Stories
"Helen
O'Loy" by Lester delRey (reader)
"No Woman Born" by C.L. Moore (reader)
"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree, Jr. (reader)
"Machine Intelligence" by Alan Turing (reader - optional)
Terms: allegory, archetypal criticism, genre, plot
Fourth Response Paper
Due: Kinds of Cyborgs
Thursday January 27 - Poetry
Music" and "Approaching A Poem" by Robert Scholes (reader)
Selections
from Songs of Innocence and Experience (reader)
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne (reader)
"My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning (reader)
"This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams (reader)
"anyone lived in a pretty how town" by e. e. cummings (reader)
"[For What as Easy] by W.H. Auden
"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
Terms: dramatic monologue, connotation and denotation, euphony
and cacophony, figurative
language, meter, satire, symbol
Tuesday February 1 - Poetry
Hypertext
Poetry (TBA)
"Easter Wings" by George Herbert (reader)
"Swan and Shadow" by John Hollander (reader)
"Skeleton Key" by John Hollander (reader)
"Fury Said to a Mouse" By Lewis Carroll (reader)
"r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r" by e. e. cummings (reader)
"l(a" by e. e. cummings (reader)
"The Typewriter Revolution" by D.J. Enright (reader)
"Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams" by Kenneth Koch
(reader) "beware
; do not read this poem" by Ishmael Reed (reader)
Terms: allusion, alliteration, imagery, modernism & post modernism,
poetic
diction
Fifth Response Paper Due: Technology of Poetry
Thursday February 3 - First Paper Workshop
Bring Proposal
"As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush (reader)
Tuesday February 8 - Media Shifts
War of the Worlds Audio Presentation and Discussion
Thursday February 10 - Graphic Novel
Watchmen
by Alan Moore and David Gibbons, Chapters 1 - 6
Understanding
Comics by Scott McCloud, Chapters 1 - 3
Terms:
new criticism, new historicism
Sixth Response Paper Due: The Technology of Visual
Narratives
Friday February 11 First
Paper Due by 4:15 - No Late Papers Accepted
Tuesday February 15 - Watchmen,
Chapters 7 - end
Understanding
Comics, Chapters 4 - 6
Terms: Marxist criticism
Thursday February 17 - Novel
Feed by M.T. Anderson, Parts 1 & 2
"Politics
and the English Language" by George Orwell (reader)
Terms: character and characterization, novel
Seventh Response Paper Due: Ways to Use Language
Tuesday February 22 - Feed.
Part 3
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" by Walter
Benjamin (reader)
Thursday February 24 - Feed, Part
4
"The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" by Horkheimer
and Adorno (reader)
Eighth Response Paper Due: The Creation of Knowledge
Thursday February 24 7:00 P.M. Film Screening
in South Hall 1415
Tuesday March 1 - Film
The
Thirteenth Floor
"Film
Terms and Topics" by Timothy Corrigan (reader)
"A Rape in Cyberspace; or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit,
Two Wizards,
and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society" by Julian Dibbell
(reader)
Terms:
narrative and narratology
Ninth Response Paper Due: Virtual Bodies, Virtual Communities
Thursday March 3 - Television and
Cultural Studies
"Television"
by John Storey (reader)
"Encoding/Decoding" by Stuart Hall (reader)
Terms:
cultural studies, reader-response criticism
Final Paper Workshop - Bring Proposal
Tenth Response Paper Due: Media and Technology
Self-Ethnography
Tuesday March 8 - Web
Project Presentations
Thursday March 10 - Web Project Presentations
Monday March 14 - Final
Papers Due by 4:15 PM
