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YEATS AND JOYCE: WELCOME TO BLOOMSDAY, JUNE 4, 1904
http://crackedlookingglass.blogspot.com/2008/02/welcome-to-bloomsday-june-4-1904.html
Central blog for the class blogs for "The Cracked Looking Glass," a literature class at Eugene Lang College, Spring '08. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE NEW CONTENT AND ASSIGNMENTS. WELCOME TO BLOOMSDAY, JUNE 4, 1904. I WILL NOT GIVE SPECIFIC PROMPTS FOR YOUR JOYCE BLOGS. I don't want to direct your reading that much, but you know what to do. Analyze, brainstorm, be specific, make connections, quote, free associate. GRAPPLE. With the text as each of these three characters grapples with their internal contradictions.
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YEATS AND JOYCE: Yeats Papers
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Central blog for the class blogs for "The Cracked Looking Glass," a literature class at Eugene Lang College, Spring '08. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE NEW CONTENT AND ASSIGNMENTS. Generally, although my comments may seem critical, I was pleased with these ambitious papers. The choice of topics was very interesting - some very serious topics with scholarly potential. Note the revised dates for presentations due to my illness today. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). MAP - The Wandering Rocks. Who was Michael Robart...
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YEATS AND JOYCE: More Joycean perambulations
http://crackedlookingglass.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-joycean-perambulations.html
Central blog for the class blogs for "The Cracked Looking Glass," a literature class at Eugene Lang College, Spring '08. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE NEW CONTENT AND ASSIGNMENTS. 1 Bloom as a cuckold. The traditional story of the cuckold is typified by "The Miller's Tale" by Chaucer or Nabokov's parody of the genre in Laughter in the Dark. It is about an older man who, in his vanity, takes a younger wife and is fooled by his wife and her lover. This may well be the plot of Sweets of Sin. Of the violence he was dir...
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YEATS AND JOYCE: Three ways of looking at a Joyce paper
http://crackedlookingglass.blogspot.com/2008/04/three-ways-of-looking-at-joyce-paper.html
Central blog for the class blogs for "The Cracked Looking Glass," a literature class at Eugene Lang College, Spring '08. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE NEW CONTENT AND ASSIGNMENTS. Three ways of looking at a Joyce paper. In our class discussions we've covered the big picture of Ulysses. Penelope as a microcosm of the novel" "Gestation, Literary Paternity, and Death in Oxen of the Sun" I'm just making stuff up to make a point: you should have an interesting take on the chapter, and read the language closely. 3 Explor...
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YEATS AND JOYCE: April 2008
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Central blog for the class blogs for "The Cracked Looking Glass," a literature class at Eugene Lang College, Spring '08. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE NEW CONTENT AND ASSIGNMENTS. Three ways of looking at a Joyce paper. In our class discussions we've covered the big picture of Ulysses. Penelope as a microcosm of the novel" "Gestation, Literary Paternity, and Death in Oxen of the Sun" I'm just making stuff up to make a point: you should have an interesting take on the chapter, and read the language closely. 3 Explor...
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YEATS AND JOYCE: for 2/13
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Central blog for the class blogs for "The Cracked Looking Glass," a literature class at Eugene Lang College, Spring '08. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE NEW CONTENT AND ASSIGNMENTS. Remember to use the revised syllabus. Presentation assignments to the right (scroll down). Read Eliot's " The Waste Land. In full. Please print it out and bring it to class. Yeats paper due. No additional posts are due today. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). MAP - The Wandering Rocks. More summaries / correspondences / maps. 4/7 Cyclop...
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YEATS AND JOYCE: January 2008
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Central blog for the class blogs for "The Cracked Looking Glass," a literature class at Eugene Lang College, Spring '08. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE NEW CONTENT AND ASSIGNMENTS. Assignment for Februrary 4th. As before, pick several poems for close reading and try to piece out Yeats's developing influences, whether Romantic, Preraphaelite, or an emerging modernism. When looking at The Seven Woods. We saw a Yeats who is willing to allow antinomies to remain unresolved, showing the negative capability. And you can s...
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YEATS AND JOYCE: February 2008
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Central blog for the class blogs for "The Cracked Looking Glass," a literature class at Eugene Lang College, Spring '08. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE NEW CONTENT AND ASSIGNMENTS. Generally, although my comments may seem critical, I was pleased with these ambitious papers. The choice of topics was very interesting - some very serious topics with scholarly potential. Note the revised dates for presentations due to my illness today. WELCOME TO BLOOMSDAY, JUNE 4, 1904. I don't want to direct your reading that much, bu...
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YEATS AND JOYCE: March 2008
http://crackedlookingglass.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html
Central blog for the class blogs for "The Cracked Looking Glass," a literature class at Eugene Lang College, Spring '08. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE NEW CONTENT AND ASSIGNMENTS. 1 Bloom as a cuckold. The traditional story of the cuckold is typified by "The Miller's Tale" by Chaucer or Nabokov's parody of the genre in Laughter in the Dark. It is about an older man who, in his vanity, takes a younger wife and is fooled by his wife and her lover. This may well be the plot of Sweets of Sin. Of the violence he was dir...
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YEATS AND JOYCE: Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service (The Waste Land)
http://crackedlookingglass.blogspot.com/2008/02/mr-eliots-sunday-morning-service-waste.html
Central blog for the class blogs for "The Cracked Looking Glass," a literature class at Eugene Lang College, Spring '08. SCROLL DOWN TO SEE NEW CONTENT AND ASSIGNMENTS. Mr Eliot's Sunday Morning Service (The Waste Land). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). MAP - The Wandering Rocks. More summaries / correspondences / maps. Riddles - scratches the surface. Scheme for the novel from Joyce's notes. Nabokov's map of the Dublin of Ulysses. Ulysses - searchable e-text. The significance of Easter 1916. 4/30 Ith...
