Note Bene

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 Two

Tuesday, August 28

• 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 copy of Stevens for the rest of the course.
• Plato. Excerpt from The Republic: “Allegory of the Cave”

Thursday, August 30

• 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: 
    • metacanon
    • mappingDC
    • Baldwin
    • Hurston
  • Explore the sites metacanon.org and vidaweb.org

Week Three

Tuesday, September 4

• 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 discussion  helps set up our later discussion of Structuralism and Narratology.

Thursday, September 5

• Stevens. Chapter 4
• Nietzsche. “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense”
• Poe. "The Man of the Crowd"
• ---. "The Raven"
• VictoriaWeb. “Aesthetes, Decadents, Symbolists.” 18 May 2008 (Accessed 15 August 2018)

Mini Essay 1 of 5 

Due Saturday, September 6

Prompts TBA

Week Four

Tuesday, September 11

• Shakespeare. Macbeth.
• Introductory video on Voyant, Early English Ballad Project, and Old Bailey Online

Thursday, September 13

• Shakespeare. Macbeth. 

Mini Essay 2 of 5 

Due Saturday, September 15

Topics TBA

Week Five

Tuesday, September 18

• Assignment Due
• Eliot. “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock”
• ---. The Wasteland

Thursday, September 20

• "T.S. Eliot and Anti-Semitism"
• Kingsbury. “Pride and Prejudice: The thorny legacy of Vanderbilt’s Fugitives and Agrarians"
  • NB: Be aware of how this narrative is constructed, what is emphasized, de-emphasized, left out.
• Morrison. “Eliot, the Agrarians, and the Political Subtext of New Critical Formalism”

Essay 1

Due Saturday, September 22

Prompts TBA