tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78627366653302825152024-03-13T05:40:38.508-07:00English 303Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-48505206232186419632010-05-11T06:17:00.000-07:002010-05-11T06:21:48.202-07:00The Code Duello<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S-lZuu909MI/AAAAAAAAAjU/Om7AwYF9dgQ/s1600/dueling_1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 235px; height: 170px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S-lZuu909MI/AAAAAAAAAjU/Om7AwYF9dgQ/s320/dueling_1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470001881834386626" /></a><br />From Sam Milligan (section 001), here are a couple of PBS sites (<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/sfeature/dueling.html">here </a>and <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/sfeature/rulesofdueling.html">here</a>) explaining the rules for dueling. I should add that, if I've incorrectly calculated your quiz point total, I prefer a less dangerous way of resolving the dispute.Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-79785990315501200012010-05-07T07:20:00.000-07:002010-05-07T07:30:51.228-07:00Week 15 lectures<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S-QjzxduktI/AAAAAAAAAjM/W1CCFtEZF1U/s1600/ENGL+303+5-7-10+(Twain).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S-QjzxduktI/AAAAAAAAAjM/W1CCFtEZF1U/s320/ENGL+303+5-7-10+(Twain).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468535219892949714" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/4u3ywa">DOWNLOAD 5-7-10 lecture.</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S-QjxASIlDI/AAAAAAAAAjE/fij_acWyAMc/s1600/ENGL+303+5-5-10+(Twain).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S-QjxASIlDI/AAAAAAAAAjE/fij_acWyAMc/s320/ENGL+303+5-5-10+(Twain).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468535172331246642" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/tpx1jd">DOWNLOAD 5-5-10 lecture.</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S-Qjtj9hToI/AAAAAAAAAi8/-ZXfnIJOVRU/s1600/ENGL+303+5-3-10+(Twain).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S-Qjtj9hToI/AAAAAAAAAi8/-ZXfnIJOVRU/s320/ENGL+303+5-3-10+(Twain).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468535113188986498" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/9lua19">DOWNLOAD 5-3-10 lecture.</a>Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-66365793599217937752010-05-04T08:30:00.000-07:002010-05-04T08:34:23.173-07:00Those Extraordinary TwinsVia Maegan Cary (section 002), here is a link to <a href="http://www.mtwain.com/Those_Extraordinary_Twins/index.html"><span style="font-style:italic;">Those Extraordinary Twins</span></a>.Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-53362267557605608532010-05-03T06:41:00.001-07:002010-05-03T06:41:59.456-07:00Quiz 12 (take-home; due in class 5-5-10)<span style="font-style:italic;">Pudd’nhead Wilson</span> may or may not be your favorite text of the semester. Even if it isn’t, though, I think we can all acknowledge that it works perfectly well as a novel in and of itself. It can be said even to resemble an episode of the TV series <span style="font-style:italic;">Law and Order</span>, since what we get in the first chapters is the commission of several crimes, in the middle chapters an investigation of those crimes, and in the final chapters a dramatic courtroom scene in which those crimes are revealed.<br /><br />So why <span style="font-style:italic;">Those Extraordinary Twins</span>? Why in the world might Twain have taken a perfectly good novel in <span style="font-style:italic;">Pudd’nhead Wilson </span>and appended to it the strange “do-over” that <span style="font-style:italic;">Those Extraordinary Twins </span>represents? For Wednesday, read all of the novella that concludes Twain’s text and think about its relationship to the main text. Then, as best you can, explain in ~500 words why you think Twain decided to rewrite the novel with the one significant variation involving Antonio and Luigi.Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-66344885544317158792010-04-30T20:01:00.000-07:002010-04-30T20:07:02.694-07:00Week 14 Lectures<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S9uaktqrPCI/AAAAAAAAAi0/3eevhWNk7ck/s1600/ENGL+303+4-30-10+(Twain).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S9uaktqrPCI/AAAAAAAAAi0/3eevhWNk7ck/s320/ENGL+303+4-30-10+(Twain).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466132528268786722" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/8nql1c">DOWNLOAD 4-30-10 lecture.</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S9uaeO7GmWI/AAAAAAAAAis/paF36N5uf88/s1600/ENGL+303+4-28-10+(Twain).jpg"><img style="display:block; 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due Wed., 4-28)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S9bUeorGvZI/AAAAAAAAAic/0BlfVqDLcyM/s1600/Quiz+11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 167px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S9bUeorGvZI/AAAAAAAAAic/0BlfVqDLcyM/s320/Quiz+11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464788820640054674" /></a>Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-58527911163577185632010-04-27T04:40:00.000-07:002010-04-30T20:00:13.979-07:00Week 13 Lectures<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S9bOyydwriI/AAAAAAAAAiM/UnIjOt4MRNw/s1600/ENGL+303+4-23-10+(Jacobs).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S9bOyydwriI/AAAAAAAAAiM/UnIjOt4MRNw/s320/ENGL+303+4-23-10+(Jacobs).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464782569796054562" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/pk33ny">DOWNLOAD 4-23-10 lecture.</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S9bOsFFQDtI/AAAAAAAAAiE/3vOUM3lqMO8/s1600/ENGL+303+4-21-10+(Jacobs).jpg"><img style="display:block; 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For Friday, finish the book then ask yourself which one incident from chapters 30-41 stands out to you as most important or evocative. Explain why in ~500 words.Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-60293366647897102252010-04-19T04:42:00.001-07:002010-04-19T04:46:06.275-07:00Mark Twain, Literary Critic<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S8xCUsEy9CI/AAAAAAAAAhs/udt5XFKkR_0/s1600/19twain1-articleInline.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 190px; height: 232px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S8xCUsEy9CI/AAAAAAAAAhs/udt5XFKkR_0/s320/19twain1-articleInline.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461813371289662498" /></a><br />A link to a piece in yesterday's <span style="font-style:italic;">New York Times</span> about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/nyregion/19twain.html?hp">the marginal notations Twain would make in the books he read</a>. To know he read so widely and commented so pointedly may make <span style="font-style:italic;">Pudd'nhead Wilson</span> seem all the more interesting a text.Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-78625953663618981642010-04-18T05:34:00.000-07:002010-04-18T05:35:42.319-07:00Audiobooks for Jacobs, Stowe, etc.David Hellberg (section 001) lets us know about a website, <a href="http://librivox.org/newcatalog/">LibriVox</a>, that provides free audio versions of several of the books on the syllabus. Both Stowe and Jacobs are available, e.g.Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-71606301411587369292010-04-16T13:04:00.000-07:002010-04-16T13:08:42.767-07:00HandoutsHere are pdf versions of the handouts for <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/06l511">paper #3</a> and the <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/x7023g">final exam</a>.Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-6914753511077424132010-04-16T13:02:00.001-07:002010-04-16T13:04:23.728-07:00Week 12 Lectures<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S8jCcOmMNVI/AAAAAAAAAhk/MdYDP46bw6M/s1600/ENGL+303+4-16-10+(Stowe).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S8jCcOmMNVI/AAAAAAAAAhk/MdYDP46bw6M/s320/ENGL+303+4-16-10+(Stowe).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460828338397132114" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/t1fjwz">DOWNLOAD 4-16-10 lecture.</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S8jCY66pILI/AAAAAAAAAhc/j8h_99ueKKE/s1600/ENGL+303+4-14-10+(Stowe).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S8jCY66pILI/AAAAAAAAAhc/j8h_99ueKKE/s320/ENGL+303+4-14-10+(Stowe).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460828281574596786" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/ljk7pc">DOWNLOAD 4-14-10 lecture.</a>Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-19715631540756153592010-04-10T11:39:00.000-07:002010-04-10T11:42:30.923-07:00Monday's class CANCELEDI am called out of town on Monday, 4/12. Class will not meet. Instead we will discuss chapters 27-35 of <span style="font-style:italic;">Uncle Tom's Cabin</span> on Wednesday and the remainder of the novel on Friday. Enjoy your day off (from English 303, anyway)!Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-33032865281598381032010-04-10T09:46:00.000-07:002010-04-10T10:32:37.763-07:00Week 11 Lectures<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S8CrvrmO_2I/AAAAAAAAAhU/y2oAzy_NaBM/s1600/ENGL+303+4-9-10+(Stowe).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S8CrvrmO_2I/AAAAAAAAAhU/y2oAzy_NaBM/s320/ENGL+303+4-9-10+(Stowe).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458551584018333538" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/jxdxc9">DOWNLOAD 4-9-10 lecture.</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S8Crqin1_fI/AAAAAAAAAhM/4KNrjMLOI34/s1600/ENGL+303+4-7-10+(Stowe).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S8Crqin1_fI/AAAAAAAAAhM/4KNrjMLOI34/s320/ENGL+303+4-7-10+(Stowe).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458551495709818354" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/ddgekn">DOWNLOAD 4-7-10 lecture.</a><br /><br />(There is no lecture to download for 4-5-10 since the heat forced us outside. Elements of that lecture are incorporated into the 4-7 and 4-9 lectures.)Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-91478075137795150082010-04-05T06:28:00.001-07:002010-04-05T06:34:29.384-07:00Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S7nml5kQagI/AAAAAAAAAhE/8sS0RxIrzgg/s1600/kemb072.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 217px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S7nml5kQagI/AAAAAAAAAhE/8sS0RxIrzgg/s320/kemb072.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456645962318506498" /></a><br />The University of Virginia hosts <a href="http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/">an excellent site devoted to <span style="font-style:italic;">Uncle Tom's Cabin</span> and its cultural contexts</a>. In addition to information about its publication history and Stowe's life, it indexes a large number of images, many of them illustrations of the various editions of the novel published from 1851 (when it was first serialized) onward. Those of you who like to analyze visual culture might see the potential for a paper #3 here--<span style="font-style:italic;">how do the images in one edition compare to another, e.g., and/or how do they compare to what Stowe herself authors in the text?</span>Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-21779347007209088642010-04-03T08:26:00.000-07:002010-04-03T08:31:17.243-07:00Quiz 8 (Take-home; due Monday, 4-5)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S7dedaaPvJI/AAAAAAAAAgE/Y9obVbjV0Fo/s1600/morgan6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 243px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S7dedaaPvJI/AAAAAAAAAgE/Y9obVbjV0Fo/s320/morgan6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455933332981267602" /></a><br />For Monday, read <span style="font-style:italic;">Uncle Tom's Cabin</span>, chs. 1-8 + Stowe's preface. As you do, keep in mind that <span style="font-style:italic;">Benito Cereno</span> was published only three years later and, of course, that it is also about slavery. Do the comparisons end there. Identify one interesting commonality or difference between the two texts and discuss it in ~500 words.Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-33073856518112292282010-04-03T08:22:00.001-07:002010-04-03T12:17:14.697-07:00Week 10 lectures<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S7eSdw8xKOI/AAAAAAAAAgM/1zMJtCrzRCU/s1600/ENGL+303+4-2-10+(Melville).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S7eSdw8xKOI/AAAAAAAAAgM/1zMJtCrzRCU/s320/ENGL+303+4-2-10+(Melville).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455990513636288738" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/pz2g02">DOWNLOAD 4-2-10 lecture.</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S7eSm9e8S8I/AAAAAAAAAgU/iPPkwEzghuI/s1600/ENGL+303+3-31-10+(Melville).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S7eSm9e8S8I/AAAAAAAAAgU/iPPkwEzghuI/s320/ENGL+303+3-31-10+(Melville).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455990671619673026" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/lab0w5">DOWNLOAD 3-31-10 lecture.</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S7eSvbznPaI/AAAAAAAAAgc/bQCzvC6IWlg/s1600/ENGL+303+3-29-10+(Dickinson).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S7eSvbznPaI/AAAAAAAAAgc/bQCzvC6IWlg/s320/ENGL+303+3-29-10+(Dickinson).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455990817198390690" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/pz2g02">DOWNLOAD 3-29-10 lecture.</a>Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-81152832536761341262010-04-03T08:09:00.000-07:002010-04-03T08:13:23.748-07:00Dickinson, Demonized!Abby Morgan (section 002) contributes this interpretation of "My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun." It's a very original analysis--and a surprisingly plausible one, if one takes the "demon" to represent some force to which Dickinson feels drawn even though her society and religion forbids it. In any event, it suggests once again how extraordinarily flexible, hence meaningful, this amazing poem is.<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2d05l2lUuZk&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2d05l2lUuZk&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-73479339372280015102010-04-03T07:49:00.001-07:002010-04-03T07:52:03.218-07:00"Sedgwick, Hawthorne, and Me"A belated post, but as I say, I'm catching up. . . .<br /><br />Rosalind Whitley (section 001) produced these in conjunction with the paper #1 assignment.<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YTM2xZJALGQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YTM2xZJALGQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G8I9JN_W07g&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G8I9JN_W07g&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />What does a woman have to do to get noticed at an English department function?Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-9019274283755381112010-04-03T07:35:00.001-07:002010-04-03T12:27:22.306-07:00Week 9 lectures<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_y-MCkvG0dZI/S7eWkbpi7-I/AAAAAAAAAg8/eczRpGsUM7w/s1600/ENGL+303+3-26-10+(Dickinson).jpg"><img style="display:block; 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height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz5gz33oWgcXkbTVcFo7FTb9WTHQPjv9vrULln6oeAI1BjCh8TfpCxSgHpqNwb0R9ROuInHPGNDpwj050JsWgkPSaivj1yyvdKwyeXgcB6lYa65gt0Tgak-lMM97kcTrPhEq-A6L-2ORA/s320/Song+of+Myself+Wordle.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455918896454584770" /></a><br />Recently I stumbled across <a href="http://www.wordle.net/">a site named wordle</a>, which allows you to create "word clouds" from any piece of text you copy and paste into its generator. A word cloud measures the frequency of individual words and then arranges them into a picture in which the words that occur most often appear largest.<br /><br />What's above is the 1855 version of "Song of Myself," wordled. Big surprise as to which word is the largest!Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-453200055522320312010-04-03T07:00:00.001-07:002010-04-03T07:01:43.785-07:00Updating the blog. . . .As you may have noticed, I've fallen behind on blog updates. I'll catch up this weekend. Stay tuned. . . .Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-70881786898345877252010-03-29T06:51:00.000-07:002010-04-03T06:59:56.871-07:00Dickinson en DeshabilleBilly Collins, the former U.S. poet laureate, has a poem about Dickinson that you may appreciate, given the last few we studied. I cannot find a recording of Collins reading it, but here is <a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2002/01/16">the poem plus a reading of it by Garrison Keillor</a>.<br /><br />Collins' own reading of his poetry is always entertaining. If you've never read or heard him, start with this one, "The Lanyard," among poetry's great odes to motherhood.<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0EjB7rB3sWc&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0EjB7rB3sWc&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-36901253537806581902010-03-24T06:43:00.001-07:002010-03-24T11:52:11.678-07:00Quiz 7 (Take-Home; due Monday, 3-29)<span style="font-style:italic;">(The quiz originally scheduled for Friday is now moved to Monday. For Friday, we will discuss those Dickinson poems in which death proves conspicuous.)</span><br /><br />We will devote next Monday’s discussion to what is perhaps Emily Dickinson’s most famous and most complex poem: “My life had stood—a Loaded Gun” (Pearson 209-210). None of her poems has attracted a broader range of interpretations than this one. What I want you to do for Monday is to develop your own. Do so by answering the following questions first:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Who or what is speaking in the poem?<br />What is the “Life” to which the speaker refers?<br />Why is this “Life . . . A Loaded Gun”? <br />Who is the “Owner”?</span><br /> <br />Read and reread the poem, testing as you do various possibilities until you find a combination that seems to work. You might think back over the other poems we have read and discussed to assess whether this poem seems to belong to one or more of the thematic categories we have identified. Once you have settled on a set of answers, develop an interpretation of the entire poem in which you explain how your understanding of its metaphors work.Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7862736665330282515.post-49444448064650616032010-03-22T13:29:00.000-07:002010-03-22T13:33:25.799-07:00With Emily ... the Skipper, too ... the Millionaire, and His Wife!Apparently my singing Emily Dickinson was so bad that Abby Morgan (section 002) decided we needed a proper version. Here it is, complete with visuals:<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GQVbZSZTI9w&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GQVbZSZTI9w&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />Well done!Jeremy Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12193467513439751565noreply@blogger.com0