Can a highway billboard be counted as literature? Is Bob Dylan a sellout? Who is Lady Gaga? Can Google be used as a poetic constraint? How do internet phenomena like Youtube and Facebook shape our attitudes toward wisdom, knowledge, and information? Are we morally implicated just by watching? Is constructing our own identities a dangerous thing, and is deconstruction possible?
In this course we will try and answer these questions.
We will discuss relatively nascent literary forms, such as children’s literature, graphic novels, genre fiction, fan fiction, and blogging; we will explore the art of adaptation, and talk about the ways in which the narrative techniques used in film and television have shaped our formal understanding of image, character, metaphor, and plot; we will question the mythologizing power of nostalgia and ask whether speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy) can offer us a better understanding of our own world.
Come prepared to both read and write generously. This course will be graded on enthusiasm, regular attendance, and a final portfolio of polished work.
Required Reading List:
Alan Moore, From Hell
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
Additional reading materials will be provided in photocopy form.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Genre
This week, instead of writing a comment on my link, I'd like each of you to post a link to a video, site or page which you think engages with the idea of genre in a creative way.
Here is one of my all time favorites:
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