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E 349, Lewis Carroll

34525 Fall 2015, Writing Flag

TTh 2-3:30 HRC Denius room 2nd floor

Jerome Bump

• 9-4: DUE BY MIDNIGHT QUESTIONNAIRES DUE : -5 PER CLASS DAY UNTIL RETURNED BY EMAIL INTRODUCTION BLOG: 15 PTS. AT STAKE

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9-6  Sunday: blogs for 9-8 and 9-10 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday

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sign outside the Denius room in the HRC

 9-8  MEET AT HRC;Annotated Alice, pp. 11-46 "Down the Rabbit-Hole"; "The Pool of Tears"; "A Caucus Race...."; "The Rabbit....."+ anthology pages; Discussion of Blogs. Quiz in class. "Best and Worst"for 2nd half of alphabet. HRC materials on display: Dodgson photographs, First Photograph

 

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 9-10  MEET AT HRC;x275-290 , 299 Alice books as guides to college., Oxford;"Caterpillar"; "Pig and Pepper"; Mad Tea Party"Annotated Alice,pp.47-79 ; Quiz in class. "Best and Worst"for first half of alphabet; Dodgson's Oxford. HRC materials on display: Italian translations and illustrations, Nursery Alice, Alice Underground

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9/11 12^th class day last day to add a class

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    9-13 Sunday: blogs for 9-15 and 9-17 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.

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9/14 Intrasemester reports due in the deans' offices.

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9-15; MEET AT HRC; "Queen's Croquet Ground"; "Mock Turtle's Story"; "Lobster Quadrille"  79-110 Quiz in class. Discussion of Blogs.""Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet;  

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9-17 MEET AT HRC; "Tarts"; "Alice's Evidence"; 110-136; x291-4, 554-598;  Alice in Many Tongues Quiz in class; Discussion of Blogs.""Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet;

• EXTRA CREDIT: BLANTON LECTURE ON GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES:
• 9 pts. if I see you there + up to 27 more for extra credit blog  -- many issues relevant to possible projects comparing some of the stories with Carroll's and comparing his revisions to theirs, especially changes concerning sex and violence
• Kate Bernheimer, Editor of the Fairytale Review and author of How a Mother Weaned Her Girl From Fairytales and Horse, Flower, Bird, as well as editor of the anthologies xo Orpheus and My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, will be talking at the Blanton Museum this Thursday, September 17th, at 6:30PM, on the literary context of the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm in the work of Natalie Frank.

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9-20 Sunday: blogs for 9-22 and 9-24 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.

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9-29: MEET AT HRC; "Invention"; "Queen Alice"; "Shaking" Waking" "Dreamed"; 233-273; Quiz in class.Discussion of Blogs. "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet 

10-1 Carroll, 'The Hunting of the Snark  Quiz in class. Discussion of Blogs. x391-418 [2] ANTHOLOGY: "Best and Worst" for 1st half of alphabet

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10-4 Sunday: blogs for 10-6 and 10-8* assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.

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10-6 MEET AT HRC;Sylvie and Bruno "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabetQuiz in class. x421-447 Discussion of Blogs.

10-8  P1a due online; 655-735; Meet at Blanton Art Museum for Brothers Grimm exhibit

If P1a is submitted by 2 PM 10-9 -10 points; If submitted by 2 PM 10-10 -15 points; If submitted by 2 PM 10-11 -20 points; If submitted by 2 PM 10-12 -25 points; If submitted by 2 PM 10-13 -30 points; If submitted by 2 PM 10-14 -35 points; If submitted by 2 PM 10-15 -40 points; If not submitted by then -100 points

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10-13:Banquet scene: Vivisection*; Discussion of Blogs, "Best and Worst" for 1st half of alphabet   (* The action of cutting or dissecting some part of a living organism; spec. the action or practice of performing dissection, or other painful experiment, upon living animals as a method of physiological or pathological study).

10-15, Banquet scene: Vivisection.Discussion of Blogs "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet Quiz in class on readings for 10-13.

   10-18 Sunday: blogs for 10-20 and 10-22 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday.

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  11-1 Sunday: blogs for 11-3 and 11-5 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday. 

11-3 Last day an undergraduate student may, with the dean's approval, withdraw from the University or drop a class except for urgent and substantiated, nonacademic reasons.Last day an undergraduate student may change registration in a class to or from the pass/fail basis.

  11-8 Sunday: blogs for 11-10 and 11-12 assignments due by 11:59 PM Sunday. 

• 977-979           Banquet Scene Context
• 883-886           Imperialism
• 938-946           War of No Pity
• 887-905          1857 Reader

November 11 -SACA animals around noon, East Mall; then  Naomi Klein on Climate and Capitalism  from 7:00-9:00pm in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of several books, including the 2007 New York Times bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Her most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, won the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and was also shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards in the nonfiction category.

906-937           1857 Reader

11-12 7-10 PM Hindu Student Association Diwali 10 pts. for attendance up to 20 pts. for optional blog

7 PMRoundtable on Eco-Poetry & Poetics with Donnelly, Dungy, & Spahr 

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November 13 EXTRA CREDIT: 10 pts. for attendance, up to 20 more for blog

Faculty Seminar on British Studies

 

 The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland

By Douglas-Fairhurst 

Round Table Discussion :Carol MacKay, Chair;  Jerome Bump; George Scott Christian;  John Farrell;Tom Lea Rooms, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 3.206

 Friday November 13, 2015    2:45 for 3:00 p.m.

11-17P2a due online: spirit animal discovery 

Final Due Date for all extra credit etc.: December 15