Unit I: Message
Note Bene
During the semester, additional events and activities will be incorporated into the schedule. Some will be required and others optional. Keep checking this site and the course Announcements.Week One
Tuesday, August 21
- In-Class Reading, Discussion, Activities
Thursday, August 23
- Baldwin. "How I Learned to Stop Hating Shakespeare"
- DuBois. “Criteria for Negro Art”
- Eliot. "Tradition and Individual Talent" (look through the pdf to find this essay).
- Hughes. "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"
- Hurston. "What White Publishers Won't Print"
Week One
Tuesday, September 4
- Culler. Chapter 1
- Stevens. Chapters 1-2 and Glossary (
- lookup: allegory, canon, mimesis, Neo-Platonism, and any other term you find useful
- You should purchase your own copy of Stevens for the rest of the course.
- lookup: allegory, canon, mimesis, Neo-Platonism, and any other term you find useful
- Plato. Excerpt from The Republic: “Allegory of the Cave”
Thursday, September 6
- Earhart. "Can Information be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon"
- Gallon. "Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities"
- McPherson. "Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation"
- Rambsy and Rambsy. Cultural Front.
- Read at least one post to read in each at each of these links:
- Explore the sites metacanon.org and vidaweb.org
Week One
Tuesday, September 11
- Stevens. Chapter 3-4
- Excerpts from Decameron, Heptameron, Canterbury Tales, and various Fairy Tales.
- Excerpts from eighteenth-century dictionaries
- Required Viewing:
- Choose ONE of the following (Of course, you can watch both):
- Kaur, Valarie. Divided We Fall: America in the Aftermath (2008)
- Omori, Emiko. Rabbit in the Moon (1999)
- In addition to how they fit into the information in Stevens, how do the primary texts today fit into imagined categories (i.e., stereotypes, archetypes, tropes, etc.) This will help set up our later discussion of Structuralism and Narratology.
- Choose ONE of the following (Of course, you can watch both):
Thursday, September 13
- Shakespeare. Macbeth.
- Introductory video on Voyant, Early English Ballad Project, and Old Bailey Online