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CO200 SELF-CONSCIOUS FICTION |
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SYLLABUS |
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| Week One | |
| 2/18 | Introduction to the course: what is
self-conscious fiction? Excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s “Westward the Course of the Empire Takes Its Way” |
| 2/19 | Tristram Shandy
Vols. 1-3 (1-193) E-journal assignment #1 |
| 2/20 | Tristram Shandy
Vols. 4-6 (194-382) E-journal assignment #2 |
| 2/21 | Tristram Shandy
Vols. 7-9 (383-539) |
| 2/22 | No class: off to read sections from The Rhetoric of Fiction
(2/25) and The Counterfeiters (2/26) and to begin work on the
first paper (due 2/28)
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| Week 2 | |
| 2/25 | The Rhetoric of Fiction: “Three
Sources of General Criteria: The Work, the Author, the Reader” (37-39), “Neutrality
and the Author’s ‘Second Self’ (67-76), and chapter eight, “Telling
as Showing: Dramatized Narrators, Reliable and Unreliable” (211-242) Lunch and Film: François Truffaut’s La nuit américaine (Day for Night) 1973 Prospectus of first paper due: post to the e-journal before 5:00 PM |
| 2/26 | The Counterfeiters E-journal assignment #3 |
| 2/27 | The Counterfeiters |
| 2/28 | No class:
off to work on papers E-journal assignment #4 |
| 3/1 | Lost in the Funhouse: “Frame-Tale,”
“Lost in the Funhouse,” and Life-Story” John Barth, “The Literature of Exhaustion”
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| Week 3 | |
| 3/4 | Pale
Fire Prospectus of independent project due: post to the e-journal before 5:00 PM |
| 3/5 | Pale Fire E-journal assignment #5 |
| 3/6 | Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre: Chapter
2, “Sterne
and the E-journal assignment #6 |
| 3/7 | Six
Characters in Search of an Author Pirandello's Preface to Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| 3/8 | No class:
off to work on papers
Independent project due at 4:00 PM
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| Week 4 | |
| 3/11 | Alphabetical Africa |
| 3/12 | Presentations of individual projects |
| 3/13 | Presentations of individual projects |