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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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