Syllabus
Spring 1999

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Week 1: January 5 and 7
Week 2: January 12 and 14
  • Fiction Vocabulary
  • “Traditional” Narrative: Updike’s “A&P”
  • “Untraditional” Narrative: Coover’s “The Babysitter”
  • The Freytag Formula
  • Hypertext
  • Writing Assignment 1 Due
  • HOMEWORK:
  • READING for week 3:
    • Patrick Süskind Perfume
Week 3: January 19 and 21
  • The Novel
  • Süskind
  • Perception and the “Other”
  • Writing Assignment 2 Due
  • HOMEWORK:
  • READING for week 4:
    • Alice Walker “The Abortion”
    • Julio Cortazar “Axolotl”
    • Yukio Mishima “Patriotism”
Week 4: January 26 and 28
  • Short Fiction
  • Alterity and Difference
  • Writing Assignment 3 Due
  • HOMEWORK:
  • READING for week 5:
    • Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness
Week 5: February 2 and 4
  • Le Guin
  • Sexuality: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
  • No Class Thursday: Work on Writing Assignment 4
  • HOMEWORK:
  • READING for week 6 (Due 2/11):
    • Woody Allen “The Kugelmass Episode”
    • Margaret Atwood “Happy Endings”
    • John Barth “Night Sea Journey” (omit)
    • William Gibson “The Gernsback Continuum”
Week 6: February 9 and 11
  • Le Guin Continued
  • Relationships: Making Connection
  • HOMEWORK:
    • Writing Assignment: None; focus on the reading
  • READING for week 7:
    • J. G. Ballard “The Enormous Space”
    • J. G. Ballard “Report on an Unidentified Space Station”
    • John Cheever “The Swimmer”
Week 7: February 16 and 18
  • Relationships: Alienation and Isolation
  • HOMEWORK:
    • Writing Assignment
  • READING for week 8:
    • Harlan Ellison “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”
    • William Gibson “Johnny Mnemonic”
    • Franz Kafka “In the Penal Colony”
    • James Triptree, Jr. “The Girl Who Was Plugged In”
Week 8: February 23 and 25
  • Completed Vocabulary Due (2/25)
  • Technology and Cyberpunk
  • Crime and Punishment: The Frankenstein Effect
  • HOMEWORK:
    • Writing Assignment
  • READING for week 9:
    • J. G. Ballard “The Index,”
    • Italo Calvino excerpts from If upon a winter’s night a traveler
    • Olaf Stapledon “Universal History”
Week 9: March 2 and 4
  • Review for Midterm
  • Midterm Exam Thursday 3/4
  • HOMEWORK:
  • READING for week 11:
    • Michael Joyce Afternoon
Week 10: March 9 and 11
  • Spring Break
Week 11: March 16 and 18
  • Hypertext: The “Wreaderly” Fiction
  • HOMEWORK:
  • READING for week 12:
    • Michael Joyce Afternoon (cont.)
    • Stuart Moulthrop Hegirascope
Week 12: March 23 and 25
  • No Class 3/25: Library Research Day
  • HOMEWORK:
    • Writing Assignment
  • READING for week 14:
    • Michael Joyce Afternoon (cont. if necessary)
    • Stuart Moulthrop Hegirascope (cont. if necessary)
    • (begin Toni Morrison Beloved)
Week 13: March 30 and April 1
Week 14: April 6 and 8
  • Are we postmodern?
  • MOO Session
  • HOMEWORK:
  • READING for week 15:
    • Toni Morrison Beloved Part 2 (169-235)
Week 15: April 13 and 15
  • Morrison
  • MOO Session
  • HOMEWORK:
  • READING for week 16:
    • Toni Morrison Beloved Part 3 (239-275)
Week 16: April 20 and 22
  • MOO Session
  • Morrison (cont.)
  • Work on projects
  • Catch up on reading
  • Review for final
Exam Week: April 24-30
  • No class Tuesday
  • Thursday, May 26, 1-3 pm: Project Presentations

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