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Corinne Scheiner
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Office: Armstrong 239A
Office Hours: TuTh 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. and by appointment
Telephone: x6238
Email: cscheiner@coloradocollege.edu
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| Description |
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This course will explore self-conscious or metafictional texts, that is, texts
that call attention to themselves as artifice.
We will examine how these texts expose their status as fictional
constructs both thematically and structurally and, thus, how they call into
question the boundaries between fiction and reality. |
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| Required Texts |
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
André Gide, The Counterfeiters
John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
Walter Abish, Alphabetical Africa
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| Reserve Reading (available online
and at the Reference Desk at Tutt) |
Robert Alter, Partial Magic: The Novel As a Self-Conscious Genre
Wayne Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction
John Barth, “The Literature of Exhaustion”
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Assignments and Evaluation |
| 25% |
E-journaling |
| 30% |
Paper |
| 45% |
Independent
Project |
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35% |
Paper |
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10% |
Presentation |
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| Policies |
| ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION |
Discussion-based classes, such as this one, depend on every student
being present, prepared, and engaged; furthermore, it is just plain
rude for anyone to miss class, to show up late, or to show up
unprepared. Therefore,
absenteeism, tardiness, and unpreparedness will negatively affect your
grade.
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More than two unexcused absences per block will lower your final
course grade by one half (e.g. and A- becomes a B+, a B becomes a B-,
etc.).
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Excused absences include travel for
athletic competitions, serious illness or family emergency.
However, this is not
automatic. For such
absences to be considered “excused” you must inform me that you
will be absent prior to the class meeting in question and receive consent.
Talk to me in person, e-mail me, or leave a message at my work
number.
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| LATE ASSIGNMENTS |
Late assignments lose one
full letter grade (e.g., an A- becomes a B-, a B becomes a C,
etc.). During each block
you can turn in one assignment late without penalty.
This includes e-journal entries and the first paper but not
your independent project (because it includes an in-class
presentation). However,
you need to arrange for this “freebie late” at least one day in
advance. Talk to one of
me in person, e-mail me, or leave a message at my work number.
I cannot accept assignments turned in more than one week late.
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The exceptions to this policy are, of course, serious illness or
family emergency. If
either happens, please talk with me.
We’ll work out a schedule for completing your course work.
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| PLAGIARISM |
Using sources beyond your
primary text(s) without documentation is intellectual theft.
Borrowing work from other students violates Colorado
College’s Academic Honor System as well.
All of you are too bright to do this, so please don't.
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Plagiarized work receives a grade of “NC”; in addition, all
honor code violations will be referred to the Honor Council.
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Please make sure you understand Colorado College’s Academic Honor
System; respect the academic integrity it calls for and the community
of trust it aims to create.
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Please indicate on all of your written work that you have upheld
the Honor Code.
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For more on the CC Academic Honor System, please see the following
website: http://www.ColoradoCollege.edu/Students/Pathfinder/Policies/Academic/HonorSystem.html.
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