Course Description
Course Description
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, November 15, 2010
Response and Translation
We'll begin with Ben's link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfZiBRFM5w
and somehow see if we can find our way back to mine (the last person to post on the wall must try to return to my original 'Beyonce Devastation' video somehow). I want to see if we can create a different chain entirely.
Try not to repeat any of the connections or themes that came up in this first thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hvaeHllwtw
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