Killings
COM 1102: WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE
Fall 2013 class time: M W F 10:00 am office hours: M W 11:00-11:45 am; M 5:00-6:00 pm and by appointment office: 626 Crawford phone: 321-674-8370 email: lperdiga@fit.edu website: my.fit.edu/~lperdiga turnitin.com course number: 7023849 turnitin.com password: Hangman
Class Schedule 9/11 E. Annie Proulx, “55 Miles to the Gas Pump” (87; 578-579)
9/13 Mark Twain, “The Story of the Good Little Boy” (615-619)
Due: Peer Review
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9/16 Tim O’Brien, “How to Tell a True War Story” (340-350)
9/18 Margaret Atwood, “Happy Endings” (online at my.fit.edu/~lperdiga)
9/20 Reading Poetry (755)
Writing About Poetry (793-795)
Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1107-1108)
Herbert R. Coursen, Jr., “A Parodic Interpretation of ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’” (1117-1118)
Due: Choose two works of metafiction and make an argument about what they show us about storytelling. How do they show us new ways of interpreting the process of reading and writing fiction? (1-2 pages typed.)
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9/23 Richard Wakefield, “In a Poetry Workshop” (1371-1372)
Mark Halliday, “Graded Paper” (905-906)
Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro” (860)
9/25 Billy Collins (1123-1130), “Introduction to Poetry” (776)
9/27 T.E. Hulme, “On the Differences between Poetry and Prose” (863-864)
Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est” (853-854)
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9/30 Word Choice, Word Order, Tone (801-806)
Mark Jarman, “Ground Swell” (online at my.fit.edu/~lperdiga)
Poetry and the Visual Arts (after page 1084, A-P; focus on H-J)
10/2 No class
10/4 No class
Fall 2013 class time: M W F 10:00 am office hours: M W 11:00-11:45 am; M 5:00-6:00 pm and by appointment office: 626 Crawford phone: 321-674-8370 email: lperdiga@fit.edu website: my.fit.edu/~lperdiga turnitin.com course number: 7023849 turnitin.com password: Hangman
Class Schedule 9/11 E. Annie Proulx, “55 Miles to the Gas Pump” (87; 578-579)
9/13 Mark Twain, “The Story of the Good Little Boy” (615-619)
Due: Peer Review
___________________________________________________________________________________________
9/16 Tim O’Brien, “How to Tell a True War Story” (340-350)
9/18 Margaret Atwood, “Happy Endings” (online at my.fit.edu/~lperdiga)
9/20 Reading Poetry (755)
Writing About Poetry (793-795)
Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1107-1108)
Herbert R. Coursen, Jr., “A Parodic Interpretation of ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’” (1117-1118)
Due: Choose two works of metafiction and make an argument about what they show us about storytelling. How do they show us new ways of interpreting the process of reading and writing fiction? (1-2 pages typed.)
___________________________________________________________________________________________
9/23 Richard Wakefield, “In a Poetry Workshop” (1371-1372)
Mark Halliday, “Graded Paper” (905-906)
Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro” (860)
9/25 Billy Collins (1123-1130), “Introduction to Poetry” (776)
9/27 T.E. Hulme, “On the Differences between Poetry and Prose” (863-864)
Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est” (853-854)
___________________________________________________________________________________________
9/30 Word Choice, Word Order, Tone (801-806)
Mark Jarman, “Ground Swell” (online at my.fit.edu/~lperdiga)
Poetry and the Visual Arts (after page 1084, A-P; focus on H-J)
10/2 No class
10/4 No class