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English 372
Tuesdays, 5;30-8:20, Stevenson 219
Fall 1999

 

Week 1-August 24

Background Knowledge Paper
Sharing Background Knowledge
Discussion and decision regarding how we want to do Book Groups
Introduction to Postmodernism (Handouts by Milanovic and Dresang)

Week 2-August 31        

What can I know?: Postmodern Aesthetics
            Van Allsburg, The Z Was Zapped
           
Lewis, David. "The Constructedness of  Texts: Picture Books and the Metafictive." Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature. Ed. Sheila Egoff. New York: Oxford, 1996. 259-275. (on reserve)
           
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Week 3-September 7

           Bring a picture book that falls into the category of parody or metafiction.
          
Trites, Roberta Seelinger. "Manifold Narratives: Metafiction and Ideology in Picture Books." Children's Literature in Education 25.4. December 1994. 225-42. (on reserve)
          
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Week 4-September 14

          Nel, Phillip. "Dada Knows Best" 
             Baudrillard, "Tranaesthetics"      
          Book Club Day--Bring a picture book written in the past ten years that you are prepared to discuss.
         
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Week 5-September 21

          How shall I live?: Postmodern Ethics
         
Block, Dangerous Angels: Weetzie Bat, Baby Bebop
           
Baudrillard, "After the Orgy," "Transexuality"
            Small Paper #1 Due
       
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Week 6-September 28

          Block, Dangerous Angels: Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan
         
Baudrillard, "Operation Whitewash"
         
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Week 7-October 5

          Cormier, We All Fall Down 
       
Baudrillard, "Drives and Repulsions," "Whatever Happened to Evil?"  
         
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Week 8- October 12

           Attend James Earl Jones talk (optional)   

Week 9-October 19

           Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
          
Baudrillard, "The Hell of the Same"
          
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Week 10- October 26

The Relationship between Ethics and Aesthetics

           Abelove, Go and Come Back
          
Baudrillard, "The Melodrama of Otherness," "Irreconcilability," "Radical Exoticism" 
          
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Week 11-November 2

          Book Club Day--Award Winners
        Small Paper #2 Due
       
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Week 12-November 9

Who, then, am I?: Postmodern Subjectivity
          Lacan, "Of the Inmixing of Otherness Prior to any Subject Whatever"   (on reserve)        
         
Hesse, Out of the Dust
         
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Week 13- November 16

           Wolf, Bat 6
          
Baudrillard, "The Declination of Wills"
          
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Week 14- November 23

            Walter, Making Up Megaboy
           
Baudrillard, "The Object as Strange Attractor"
           
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Week 15-November 30

             Fleischman, Whirligig
            
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Week 16-December 7

          Book Club Day--Genre
          Small Paper #3 Due
          Large Paper Due
         
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