To do
- [ ] Readings before seminar
Class notes
1/1/24
Misc
- “I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again”― Maya Angelou
Readings
Week 1
Threadgold – Text
Brown – [CONCEPT/OBJECT] [TEXT/EVENT]
Van Hulle – Multiple Versions and Fictional Minds: Manuscript Research, Digital Editing, and Enactive Cognition in Literary Studies
Week 2
Attridge – Literary Experience and the Value of Criticism
Said – The World, the Text and the Critic
Benterrak – Reading the Country: Introduction to Nomadology
Week 3
Miller – Bringing Out Roland Barthes
Morrison – Mouth Full of Blood
Wood – We Do It All the Time
Burke – The Ethics of Writing
Week 4
Hall – I Can’t Love This the Way You Want Me to: Archival Blackness
Bay-Cheng – Digital Historiography and Performance
Benjamin – Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting