ENG
2100 - Schedule of Readings (subject to change)
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WEEK 1 (20-24 Aug)
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Introduction: When Authors Are Not What They Seem |
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Monday |
Introduction and Syllabus |
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From Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?” (PDF) |
| Friday | Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote” (PDF) |
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WEEK 2 (27-31 Aug)
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"True" Histories of Far-Away Places |
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Monday |
Aphra Behn, Oroonooko [may be substituted] |
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Aphra Behn, Oroonooko [may be substituted] |
| Friday | Psalmanazar, Description of Formosa (PDF) |
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WEEK 3 (3-7 Sept)
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True Histories of Places That Never Were |
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Monday |
Labor Day: No Class |
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From Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1-68) |
| Friday | From Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (126-85) |
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WEEK 4 (10-14 Sept) |
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"Written from her own Memorandums": Fictional Memoir |
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Monday
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Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1-53) |
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Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (54-101) |
| Friday | Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (102-49) |
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WEEK 5 (17-21 Sept)
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Fictional Memoir, Continued |
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Monday
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Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (150-200) |
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Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (201-50) First Paper Due |
| Friday | Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (251-267, 277-296) |
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WEEK 6 (24-28 Sept)
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All the Messiness of Life |
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Monday
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From Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (Introduction, Vol I, Ch I-XIX) |
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From Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (Vol III, Ch I-XX) |
| Friday | From Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (Vol IX, Ch I-end) |
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WEEK 7 (1-5 Oct)
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Please note: I am taking my comprehensive exams this week and will be unavailable |
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Monday |
Film viewing - A Cock and Bull Tale |
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Film viewing - A Cock and Bull Tale |
| Friday | Library Day - Meet in Ellis Electronic Classroom |
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WEEK 8 (8-12 Oct)
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Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Forgery |
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Monday |
Denis Dutton, “On Plagiarism and Forgery" Chatterton's Rowley poems (PDF) |
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MacPherson's Ossian poems (PDF) |
| Friday | Instructor at Conference |
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WEEK 9 (15-19 Oct)
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"An Authentic Account"... of what? |
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Monday |
Library Day - Special Collections |
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William Henry Ireland, Shakespeare Papers (PDF) |
| Friday | William Henry Ireland, from "An Authentic Account" |
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WEEK 10 (22-26 Oct)
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Case Study in Biography: Samuel Johnson |
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Monday |
From Boswell, Life of Johnson (PDF) |
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From Piozzi, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D (PDF) |
| Friday | From Sisman, Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson. (PDF) |
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WEEK 11 (28 Oct - 2 Nov) |
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Case Study in Biography: Katharine Hepburn |
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| Monday |
From Hepburn, Me (PDF) And Review |
| Wednesday | From Berg, Kate Remembered (PDF) |
| Friday | From Mann, Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn (PDF) Paper Proposal Due |
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WEEK 12 (5-9 Nov) |
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Fiction About Fraud |
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Monday
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Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener (Chapters 1-4) |
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Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener (Chapters 5-8) |
| Friday | Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener (Chapters 9-13) |
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WEEK 13 (12-16 Nov)
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Fiction About Fraud, continued. |
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Monday
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Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener (Chapters 14-19) |
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Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener (Chapters 20-24) |
| Friday | Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener (Chapters 25-end) |
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WEEK 14 (19-23 Nov)
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THANKSGIVING
HOLIDAYS |
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WEEK 15 (26-30 Nov)
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Stranger Than Fiction: The Case of J.T. LeRoy |
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Monday
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JT LeRoy, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, "Disappearances" And "Who is the Real JT LeRoy?" (PDF) |
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JT LeRoy, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things" |
| Friday | JT LeRoy, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, "Natoma Street" |
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WEEK 16 (3-7 Dec)
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Performing Fraud: Author Identity |
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Monday |
From James Frey, A Million Little Pieces (PDF) |
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"You Are Here" -- An excerpt from Chuck Palahnuk's Stranger Than Fiction |
| Friday | Final Definitions |
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Final
Paper Due in Exam Week |
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