WEEK 1 (20-24 Aug)
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Introduction: When Authors Are Not What They Seem |
Monday |
Introduction and Syllabus |
Wednesday |
From Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?” (PDF) |
Friday |
Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote” (PDF) |
WEEK 2 (27-31 Aug)
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"True" Histories of Far-Away Places |
Monday |
Aphra Behn, Oroonooko |
Wednesday |
Aphra Behn, Oroonooko |
Friday |
Psalmanazar, Description of Formosa (PDF) |
WEEK 3 (3-7 Sept)
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True Histories of Places That Never Were |
Monday |
Labor
Day: No Class |
Wednesday |
From Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1-68) |
Friday |
From Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (126-85) |
WEEK 4 (10-14 Sept) |
"Written from her own Memorandums": Fictional Memoir |
Monday |
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1-53) |
Wednesday |
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (54-101) |
Friday |
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (102-49) |
WEEK 5 (17-21 Sept)
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Fictional Memoir, Continued |
Monday |
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (150-200) |
Wednesday |
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (201-50) |
Friday |
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (251-267, 277-296) |
WEEK 6 (24-28 Sept)
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All the Messiness of Life |
Monday |
From Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (Introduction, Vol I, Ch I-XIX)
Presentation: Rhiannon, If I Did It
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Wednesday |
From Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (Vol III, Ch I-XX)
Presentation: Emily, Drop Dead Gorgeous |
Friday |
From Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (Vol IX, Ch I-end)
Presentation: Andrew, Japanese I-Novelist Rhetoric
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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 |
Monday |
Film viewing - A Cock and Bull Tale |
Wednesday |
Film viewing - A Cock and Bull Tale |
Friday |
Library Day - Electronic Classroom |
WEEK 8 (8-12 Oct)
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Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Forgery |
Monday |
Denis Dutton, “On Plagiarism and Forgery"
Chatterton's Rowley poems (PDF) |
Wednesday |
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? |
Monday |
Library Day - Special Collections |
Wednesday |
William Henry Ireland, Shakespeare Papers (PDF) |
Friday |
William Henry Ireland, from "An Authentic Account" |
WEEK 10 (22-26 Oct)
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Case Study in Biography: Samuel Johnson |
Monday |
From Boswell, Life of Johnson (PDF) |
Wednesday |
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) |
Case Study in Biography: Katharine Hepburn |
Monday |
From Hepburn, Me (PDF)
And Review |
Wednesday |
From Berg, Kate Remembered (PDF) |
Friday |
From Mann, Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn (PDF) |
WEEK 12 (5-9 Nov) |
Fiction About Fraud |
Monday |
Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener (Chapters 1-4)
Presentation: Liz, Carrie |
Wednesday |
Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener (Chapters 5-8)
Presentation: Ericka, TBA |
Friday |
Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener (Chapters 9-13)
Presentation: Kelly, A Child Called "It" |
WEEK 13 (12-16 Nov)
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Fiction About Fraud, continued. |
Monday
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Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener (Chapters 14-19)
Presentation: Elizabeth, Jayson Blair |
Wednesday
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Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener (Chapters 20-24)
Presentation: Lisa, The Education of Little Tree |
Friday |
Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener (Chapters 25-end)
Presentation: Skyler, TBA |
WEEK 14 (19-23 Nov)
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THANKSGIVING
HOLIDAYS |
WEEK 15 (26-30 Nov)
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Stranger Than Fiction: The Case of J.T. LeRoy |
Monday |
JT LeRoy, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, "Disappearances"
And "Who is the Real JT LeRoy?" (PDF)
Presentation: Ettie, TBA |
Wednesday |
JT LeRoy, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things"
Presentation: Kevin, Clifford Irving's "Autobiography"
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Friday |
JT LeRoy, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, "Natoma Street"
Presentation: Kurt, The Teachings of Don Juan |
WEEK 16 (3-7 Dec)
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Performing Fraud: Author Identity |
Monday |
From James Frey, A Million Little Pieces (PDF) |
Wednesday |
"You Are Here" -- An excerpt from Chuck Palahnuk's Stranger Than Fiction |
Friday |
Final Definitions |
Final
Exam: TBA |